Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Gas prices.. was a weird forward..

["Igor Izyumin Jr." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> I agree a lot of people have big stupid cars they don't really
> need.
True, those piss me off too.  Although you really need them if you're going 
to buy furniture or something and need to move it.

> People also tend to leave their tv/radio/whatever going a lot when
> they aren't using them and otherwise waste a lot of energy.
That's not nearly as big of a problem as cars.  After all, electrical power 
can be generated cheaply and it doesn't look like the supply of coal is going 
to run out any time soon.  When they do, I'm sure that reasonable solar 
panels could be developed.

> This country
> is very wasteful which greatly annoys me but it really isn't surprising
> since we're encouraged by commercials and media to consume more of
> everything.
The real problem is that people earn way too much money.  The entire economy 
holds on the simple fact that a TV/whatever could be built for peanuts in 
china or something.  Guess why the rest of the work doesn't have nearly as 
high of a standard of life?  Even in Europe, most people don't own their own 
houses and don't have anything nearly as cheap.

> Many other countries do much better in having small vehicles that are
> designed exactly for what they'll get used for and people actually know
> how to walk (oh my gawd!) and don't expect to be able to use an endless
> amount of the worlds resources in general. We're a bunch of spoiled
> wankers.
See the comment above.
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-- Igor
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