How Far Will You Go To Be Green?

Agent009, don't fix the title.

I understand your sentence ;-)

last minute headline before running out the door. My typo, so poke a way, I deserve it.

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Brush up a bit on your history bubba.

During the Carter administration interest rates were hovering at 18%! That sad statistic alone priced many out of major purchases.

Today it simply is tight credit due to poor lending practices and now banks trying to cover thier losses.

BTW I invest in real estate and probably have flipped more homes in the last 6 months than you will even consider in your entire life. I know what the economics are quite well. There is money out there to be made.

things arent even that bad yet to consider "How Far Are You Will To Go to Be Green". gas prices are what, $3.28 average? get another job if you cant afford it or just quit driving and quit moaning about it.

The answer is: whatever is most convenient.

When gasoline expenditures start eating significantly more than 10% of the average family budget, then start blogging the issue. We're not even close to that yet. The fact is that the average American spends more money on coffee than fueling vehicles.

Bloggers with nothing better to do than whining about gasoline prices aren't going to affect the typical consumer's lifestyle choices. No matter what anyone recommends to become green, in the end, it is physical and economic reality that the consumer feels. The market is not forward-looking, so this means that consumers will wise up when gasoline is more expensive than the clean alternative -- which, thanks to the Project for a New American Century will happen when the last easy drop of oil has been taken by force from the deserts of Iran. We can only hope not to live that long.

So what's the next fuel for our beloved automobiles? Bush recommends "clean" coal; some scientists with absolutely no sense of economics tout nuclear energy. Others think that hydrogen fuel cells or advanced battery technology will be ready. I predict that a return to horse-drawn carriages will be just as likely.

There's another reason that people truly committed to being green will switch to organic horsepower on the hoof. The people who currently waste hundreds of dollars and hours per year manicuring their perfect green lawns with petrochemicals and gasoline-powered mowers will be looking for an affordable way to keep their green carpeting at exactly 2.5 inches of height. That's great news for the next generation of organic beasts of burden. What's more, horses work for even less than illegal immigrants.

Horses are not all that good at taping and texturing drywall. Their tongues clog up with joint compound to often.

Going Green and Reducing Consumption are TWO different things, not one in the same.

I am reducing consumption, NOT because I live in some pedantic utopian bubble in which I think I am saving the earth. I am reducing consumption to save a buck.

I am doing it by polluting even more with a diesel car. So is this also green as it relates to the environmental hysteria? No, it is green in my pocket.

Once the economy turns around and I am flush with cash again I won't have a moral problem with driving my Hummer H2 where ever I go.

It's the economy stupid, not the environment.

The whole point of going green is to minimize consumption and therefore minimize pollution. Both are intertwined.

I might go as far as to dump a bottle of green food coloring into my tub before I get in; that's about it.

St. Pat's day is over

Does your glowing message represent the kind of change and hope your candidate is going to "unify" all of us with?

It's difficult to credit Obama supporters like Coprius and GoObama08 with having any good will toward their country when they openly call for socialism and display so much disdain and derision for their fellow citizens. It makes one pause and consider what it is about Obama that attracts such immature, hateful people. That said, the vast majority of us want to see the environment protected without resorting to overreaction based on agenda-driven, scientifically unproven rhetoric of the kind spouted by people like Al Gore in his thorougly debunked propaganda piece, An Inconvenient Truth.

Coprius

You drive a Prius and think you're helping the environment?!? Maybe in fuel consumption, but that's about it. One of those cars has to make 2 or 3 trips across the ocean to make it to your show room - those cargo ships aren't emitting water. Not to mention the fact that the battery you use in that car causes more environmental impact to make and dispose of than a Hummer.

Not every American is fat, but I fully support their right to be fat, eat whatever they want, live how they want, work hard and be happy (i.e. FREEDOM). "socialist-progressive" causes stem from an elitist view no one can do anything for themselves and that the government knows better and should be in control of everyones lives.

It's obvious you've got a lot of hate and contempt running through your veins. If you live in America, please leave.

BTW, Obama will never be President of the United States.

write me up for 124!

Well here in CT the limit has always been 55 for what I remember. Not till you go upstate where it's less desnely populated do you see 65. I typically drive 70-80 regardless. But I have done the following to keep things on par;

1) Easier driving, not punching it and flying around as much.

2) Budgeted the money for more gas, my insurance went down, and some of that money now goes to supplement the gas cost.

3) Use Stop n Shop 10 cent off coupons. I know it only equates to like one or two dollars for me. But I give them to my fiance for her Jeep, she needs it more than me since her fillups are like 60 bucks. You get a S&S coupon for S&S gas when you spend like $50 or something at the store, good deal!

4) I have a second job two nights a week as a barback. I have been using the money towards the wedding and stuff, it also helps to fill a gap for gas when needed.

5) If gas hits $4, I'll be taking the train and giving my car to my fiance to take to work. an 05 Matrix gets waaaay better mileage than her 05 Liberty. I get 25mpg average driving in traffic daily, she gets 17.

One thing I would not be willing to do is wear another leisure suit... especially one that's green.