Gas prices aren't high enough to fix the ills that need to be fixed:
1) Foolish US homeowners driving 100 miles a day round trip in their Surburbans
2) Fools in power doing nothing to promote energy conservation
3) Foolish city planners designing miles and miles of new highways, but no public transportation
4) Fools who run GM building gas guzzling trucks, when Americans wanted energy-efficient cars
5) Fools on Fox News who state that global warming doesn't exist
6) A foolish compensation committe giving $400 million to ExxonMobile's fat fool
7) Foolish voters putting two oil fools into the White House
But alas, high gas prices sure did get us one thing:
A foolish war in the Mideast
April 23, 2006
Happy Earth Day (and why does it feel like April Fools Day?)
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high gas prices will cure many of these ills and chasten many of these fools -- just give it a little more time.
I agree with anon - when gas is $25-50/gallon only then will Co2 emmissions be reduced.
HOWEVER; global dimming then kicks in with the reduction in pollution an another 2 degrees C gets added to the 2 degrees already racked up by C02
Have a nice day!!
"Fools on Fox News who state that global warming doesn't exist"
Do YOU have any proof that global warming exists???
And I do not think pulling Saddam out of a hole, and locking him up is foolish at all. By the way, I live in NYC, and it sure is nice not having subway bombings here. Maybe kicking ass is not so foolish.
Global warming does not exist, do your reaserch. I guess our ancestor's campfires during in prehistoric times triggered the end of the ice age too!
Wow! What a diverse set of opinions. Did you guys ever wonder what we actually know? Just ponder that for a while.
Global warming, evolution, quantum mechanic, stem cell research, etc. are just another myth and religion.
These science things are just to increase government control.
Our school system definitely needs revamp. Maybe entire society.
BTW, is there any bestseller evangelising idea that if you go to school and learn you will be rich? Nope.
All this conversation here and simplistic argument about global warming reminds me of NASA report about Columbia accident.
The report from NASA basically emphasises that "Oversimplification of technical information could mislead decision-making".
www.eh.doe.gov/ll/sells/proceedings/proceedings0404/caib_em.pdf
Basically, one should not talk about rocket science (and other science in general including economic) without data, facts, ...
So you guys which make statements as "Do you know what the biggest greenhouses gas is???? " are just trying to simplify the problem and then make conclusion what ever you want. Unfortunately, the world is not simple: if that is true everybody would be rich.
I could not believe what I was reading at the bottom of my TV screen yesterday. I was tuned in to Fox News and it read...
$4.00 dollar gas and $ 100 dollar oil will not hurt the economy and the markets....
What planet are these people from?
Did anyone see the picture of the $2.00 head of lettuce in New York City in 1974?
Gee , I wonder why that head of lettuce sat there in the produce section and rotted. And why was it so expensive? Hmmmmmm. Food for thought.
Anyone read parade today in your Sunday paper?
Real median income down 3% from '00 to '04
The percentage of households earning $25,000 to $90,000 (roughly middle class) shrank 1.5 % since '00
Last year , real average weekly earnings fell .04 %
Savings rate is lowest in 73 years.
Credit card debt is at $9,312.00 per household on AVG.
Tuition is through the roof. Public college (in state) $12,127.00 A 25% jump since 2001. A private university $ 29,026
And we won der why we are running out of Engineers and such. Hmmmmm.
Whether global warming is a natural or a man made problem ....."prove" to me that it is not an issue since it is well debated! You cannot argue that weather patterns and geographical areas are under a change!
I don't expect the mental midgets who watch fox news exclusively to understand this, since they didn't go to a good college either, but let's give it a shot:
Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"
Richard, we are not really fucked. A ton of Indians and Chines educated people are immigrating and they will run the cuntry. Fox News people will soon be melted with Mexican illegal immigrants. You know metling pot thing ...
yeah I think U2 sang, "all colors will bleed into one"...
maybe it was just bleed...
Is Michael Chrochtown a scientist? I thought he wrote legal suspese bores?
I like it simple for I have a simple mind.
Mother nature knows what to do when humans start to shit on it. It never fails.
Kneel before the one you serve.
:)
We so get off on the power of humans. How long can a human being go without air? Yes, let's chop all the trees and make beautiful coffee tables where we display our Michael Chrochtown books that set us straight about our environment.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., celebrated Earth Day by issuing a global warming warning, extolling the virtues of fuel-efficient vehicles and blasting "outrageous" oil prices at the pumps in an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
"The science is in," the actor-turned-politician claimed. "The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming."
True the Earth does go in cycles:hot, cold, hot cold, hot cold etc. However, man's stupidity as usual refuses to understand that we affect our environment in a negative way and what used to take centuries now takes decades and what used to take decades now takes years etc etc. If you have common sense can't we just trace patterns and see it's getting worse?
I have to make a comment about "3) Foolish city planners designing miles and miles of new highways, but no public transportation". In reality, we are not designing new highways even! I was talking to a retired civil engineer recently, and he showed me one of the studies they had done for Chicago in the 1960's. In the study was a map they had created based on projections of driving patterns in the next few decades. They had filled in a bunch of sites for highways over the map. He pointed to the map and saw "What do you notice about the red lines that are dashed?". These were planned highways. Not a single one of the planned roadways was built. The solid red lines are still the current highways originally built in the 1950s. Our public transportation network mostly dates from before WWII.
What we are doing is building just more and more large public thorough fares with 5-minute stoplights, and maybe adding an occasional lane to the existing highways and tollways.
That's why I chose to live in the city. F*** the suburbs. Sprawl is the antithesis of urban planning. They didn't even follow the motor-vehicle powered urban design of the 1960's!!!! At least then we wouldn't have bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush-hour.
Govno as my black militant sociology teacher ranted, there is no such thing as a melting pot in America. It's a salad bowl. We all get mixed in together but we remain seperate.
It is foolish to say that global warming does not exist, but its absolutely TRUE to say that there's no evidence that the activity of man contributes in any significant way to said warming.
Please, when you criticize, try not to give only HALF the information!
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