Yippee! Gas prices are down! Now we can all dust off our gas-guzzling pick-ups and SUVs and get ’em back on the road.
We sure don’t need to use any of those sissy gas-conserving driving habits either. Floor that accelerator, ram through those gears! We’re all in a big d__n hurry too, so let’s go back to all those jackrabbit starts and stops. Let’s speed aggressively.
Who cares about global warming or carbon footprints? Who cares about the inevitable total depletion of the planet’s oil supply? We’re Americans, and entitled to hog and waste as much of the planet’s resources as our immediate gratification dictates. We’re entitled to waste gas as long as we can afford the bill. We don’t need to learn anything from the latest gas crisis. Back to our selfish “business as usual” habits. After all, we Americans have a long history of selfish, greedy, and wasteful behavior to live up to.
Good work Central Oregon!
Sue Jamison, Bend.
This article appears in Dec 18-24, 2008.
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And don’t forget to take your happy pills, addicts.
I dont know where you are getting your rant, er, information Sue but American’s are still curtailing their driving and conserving fuel even though gas prices are going down. Just ask GM, Ford and Chrysler.
Relax and chill out Sue.
Since basic transportation remains a requirement, is Sue recommending that the owners of large vehicles junk them and go out and acquire smaller more conservative vehicles before the ‘life’ of that vehicle is over? What is the carbon footprint of the manufacture of that new vehicle? Perhaps it makes more sense to delay the purchase–cut back on consumption and travel (100 billion fewer miles traveled this year than last)–and save where we can. I will spare myself the luxury of criticism and live my own life accordingly. I hope and trust others are doing the same without my snarky criticism.
I agree with Stephen, I have a pick-up, needed it when I bought it. Unloading it now would lessen MY
carbon footprint, but someone would still be driving it. I really cannot afford a new car payment in this econmical climate. (translation: recession) I still see a lot of people walking and riding thier bikes, even in this crazy weather. So let’s hope your cynicism is premature, for everyone’s sake