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If everyone drove a more fuel efficient vehicle we wouldn't need to drill everywhere off our coast. Thousands of people in the Gulf Coast will be out of work for years because of our addiction to oil. Perhaps many people
Do you people who needlessly and unapologetically drive gas guzzlers want to apologize to those people whose livelihoods your habits have helped eliminate?
LOL. People like you get funnier all the time. So what kind of vehicle do you suggest people own that will pull a trailer, hull around livestock, or navigate irregular terrain?
I have a large SUV and I do not feel the least bit responsible. No other vehicle will fit my needs. I certainly would not have my children in some tin can either.
If everyone drove a more fuel efficient vehicle we wouldn't need to drill everywhere off our coast. Thousands of people in the Gulf Coast will be out of work for years because of our addiction to oil. Perhaps many people
Do you people who needlessly and unapologetically drive gas guzzlers want to apologize to those people whose livelihoods your habits have helped eliminate?
Some people need large, inefficeint vehicles for their jobs. Others have large families and need the extra space. I don't think anyone should apologize for what they drive. Instead, maybe you could worry about what you can do to use less oil.
If everyone drove a more fuel efficient vehicle we wouldn't need to drill everywhere off our coast. Thousands of people in the Gulf Coast will be out of work for years because of our addiction to oil. Perhaps many people
Do you people who needlessly and unapologetically drive gas guzzlers want to apologize to those people whose livelihoods your habits have helped eliminate?
I think the people who have ever bought any ammonia, anesthetics, antihistamines, artificial limbs, artificial turf, antiseptics, aspirin, auto parts, awnings, balloons, ballpoint pens, bandages, beach umbrellas, boats, cameras, candles, car battery cases, carpets, caulking, combs, cortisones, cosmetics, crayons, credit cards, curtains, deodorants, detergents, dice, disposable diapers, dolls, dyes, eye glasses, electrical wiring insulation, faucet washers, fishing rods, fishing line, fishing lures, food preservatives, food packaging, garden hose, glue, hair coloring, hair curlers, hand lotion, hearing aids, heart valves, ink, insect repellant, insecticides, linoleum, lip stick, milk jugs, nail polish, oil filters, panty hose, perfume, petroleum jelly, and type of plastic, rubber cement, rubbing alcohol, shampoo, shaving cream, shoes, toothpaste, trash bags, upholstery, vitamin capsules, water pipes, or yarn are to blame. i never buy BP gasoline.
Why would they need to. If you look this happened since gas consumption actually went down. But we need to realise that we no lng control the gasoline shortage or pirce. Its the rate that the emerign counries especaily China are consoming by leaps and boucnds every year. Once the recesion is over; emergy consumptoion including gasoline will go back up. China is now the growth area in vehicles alos having surpassed the US.Even oif we all drove very samll cars this would have happened. Its like sayig that the people against more seciurity measure need to appolgise for teh car bomb attempt yesterday in NY.
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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If everyone drove a more fuel efficient vehicle we wouldn't need to drill everywhere off our coast. Thousands of people in the Gulf Coast will be out of work for years because of our addiction to oil. Perhaps many people
Do you people who needlessly and unapologetically drive gas guzzlers want to apologize to those people whose livelihoods your habits have helped eliminate?
I agree with you. I am glad that Obama had the guts to raise the MPG standards which will hopefully get rid of some of the more offending vehicles. But I think we should go a lot further and impose a gasoline "floor tax" of at least $4 a gallon- which would mean that gasoline would cost a minimum of $4.00 a gallon all the time. The tax would be used partially (80%) to offset income taxes and the rest (20%) for highways, bridges and public transit.
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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I bet the keyboard you are typing this is on is made from plastic.
How Do We Use Petroleum? (http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Do-We-Use-Petroleum?&id=737152 - broken link)
If you happen to use anything mentioned in that article, I hope you have already started working on your apology.
Like plastic. Roads. Anything that comes in a truck that drives on a road. Um, and that electricity stuff. Your computer/electronic devices you use probably uses electricity. Unless you've found out how to make them run on rainbows and dreams.
Nobody said we could get totally rid of oil. But we consume FAR more per person than even the rest of the industrialized world does. It can be cut- probably by half.
If everyone drove a more fuel efficient vehicle we wouldn't need to drill everywhere off our coast.
Yeah, but then we'd have to use rolls of plastic wrap for tires leaving us with tin foil for food wrap... no more tin foil hats. What'cha gonna do then, bad boy....
one thing chevron and dept of energy lied about, gas prices are in fact highly sensitive to consumption, buy a little car today. tax SUV's off the road.
ever check the fuel effeciency of a commericial fishing boat? i used to burn 40 gals a day on just a 21' old clam boat. cant imigine what a shrimper burns.them new battery powered ones aint out yet
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