Addiction to oil

[arlie]

We drive a small car, a Hyundai Accent GL to be exact.  We get above average gas mileage, so we haven't felt the gas prices as much as some drivers.  I want to do something to help wean American off oil.  We cannot continue to pay for our ememies weapons.  We pay for these through oil.  We buy their oil and our money goes to their leaders who buy

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[ariellejuliana]

Why don't you care that you're using oil as long as it's not foreign?

I honestly don't understand this thinking (not that this is what YOU are saying, but what I am hearing over and over again) that using foreign oil is some kind of heinous moral problem, but destroying the planet by being by far the most gluttonous overconsumers/polluters in the world and drilling in the Alaska wildlife reserve is not a moral issue at all.

[ioulios]

Oooooo, someone said it!

[ariellejuliana]

LOL, this is pretty much the only think I get snarky about - overconsumption, environmental destruction, consumerism, poisoning environments, etc. And our current administration's policies regarding it. People often think they know what I think about the war in Iraq. They don't. I've never made a statement about it. But I make plenty of statements about Bush being assigned the illustrious title of Worst Environmental President EVER by numerous environmental groups. I say, live in Cairo for one day and you'll see what will happen when Bush's environmental policies ripping holes in the Clean Air and Water Acts start to take effect.

[ioulios]

Ooooooo, AMEN! :-)

[arlie]

I honestly wish we could not use oil at all and just use solar power, wind mills, hydro electric, etc.. but we (corporate America) are not going to do that anytime real soon. My only reasoning about not using foreign oil is at this point we cannot continue to support our enemies while fighting a war with them. We are giving them the finance needed to countinue fighting and warring against us. Americas' addiction to oil is so strong that we will need oil for longer until we can break the addiction (weaning slowly), but we cannot afford to continue getting this from countries we are battling.