$4.00 gas: Death by ignorance?
We've had it coming?First, let me just say that $4.00 gas is cheap. Second, for those that drive fuel efficient vehicles, $4.00 gas isn't nearly as painful as for those driving gas-guzzlers - no duh, right?
Still, for those with large families that drive gas-guzzlers, I feel for your pain - a little, but had you gotten a minivan, instead of a much larger - without any extra seating - SUV, your pain would be a little less. Of course, when gas is cheap, ignorance is bliss.
Ultimately, if Americans utilized practical intelligence as consumers, the US economy and the average American family would be able to absorb $4.00 gas without nearly as much pain. But, American culture doesn't value practicality, there's no image value.
Well, enjoy your bling-bling all the way to the gas pump. You look cool.
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posted by Dahcredyns at
6:26 AM
11 Comments:
Dahc...
Come on man..have no remorse!! Feel their pain? Screw them. They deserve everything they are getting.
While I agree with you it's lack of intelligence that is the governing force behind final decisions...it's also extreme arrogance and self-righteousness. Why should I feel sorry for idiots who are on their high horses?
Just the act of driving an SUV for most people is an act of insecurity.
How many times have we heard ...
"I want to feel like I'm sitting above everyone else..."
"I want a big car so if I hit something, I don't feel it."
"My kid needs to be safe in the car...I want something really big to make sure."
"I have a right to drive whatever I want...it's my money...I don't care about pollution...besides..I'm supporting the troops.
I'd be a very wealthy man if I got a dime for every time I heard that crap.
I neither feel pain NOR feel sorry for these idiots. The people I do feel sorry for are people who are responsible and caring and have to live side by side with these fools.
I have a great idea for such people...let SUV drivers and other fuel guzzling vehicle owners all pack their bags and go to the Middle East, live there, fight there, take their families there. Don't come back....just have their own lives and if they want something, let em get it themselves.
It's interesting how smug these people can be...while sitting on their couches in suburbia watching Everybody Loves Raymond, 10,000 miles away from the horrors of the real world.
Unfortunately high gas prices and people's peoples poor decisions may drag our whole economy down so much that it will hurt us all.
will-
it's already pulled us down. it has already hurt. the real question is, how far will it pull us down?
is it already too late?
in my opinion we can't end foreign oil dependency fast enough,but until we do, foreign oil dependency costs are only going to increase.
there might be stable bumps here and there, but they won't be the norm.
the NOCs are in control now. who is gonna control the NOCs?
I think that by 09 year the price will be $5/gallon
Oh I can only hope...I'd love to see those douchebags with SUV's pissing away their money even more.
I think I in California we could see $4.00+ gas this year, so $5.00 gas wouldn't be a stretch for 2009. Still, I think there will be a temporary pull-back before we go to $5.00, but some big world event could easily prevent that and push gas well past $5.00.
You know I think it is easy to blame those with big SUVs. The thing is though really you have to start with the federal government. Follow the money trail. Back in the 1970s the government forced the car makers to put emmision reducing systems on their cars. This changed not only the sizes and mileage but also the way people bought their vehicle.
So my question is why isn`t the government doing something about it now. Because the people that run the country are all about big business. I build one of the worst gas mileage vehicles in the world and I can tell you that we are selling less. The bad thing is that I dont think it is because of gas prices, I think it is because are loosing their jobs. The first step is going to have to be done by the government not cause they are good people, but because our society have become sheep and cant do anything on our own for fear it might take a little effort.
I think people that drive suvs deserve some blame, especially those that have bought a new one since 9/11, for example.
Nonetheless, I do agree that a significant percent of blame belongs to big corporations and their cronies in Washington.
Yet, since we the people keep voting for these cronies, don't we deserve some blame for their actions?
Dahc...
Absolutely...people in SUVs deserve the blame. Look at what they stand for when they drive those things...same goes for the arrogant little douches that need self-comforting by driving 13 MPG BMW M5...not different to me.
The problem is people..their arrogance, stupidity, and ignorance. SUVs do have their place. But their place IS NOT sitting in traffic for 2-3 hours a day at 15 MPG and with one person in it.
I mean serious..how selfish and arrogant does someone have to be to think that is normal??
Stupidity is the first step to getting an SUV....people are just stupid. And the corporate folk know this...that's where the corporations are culpable. Then comes arrogance...after buying the SUV...now the consumer is to blame. Then comes ignorance.
Both sides are to blame...the corporations for keeping the information from people regarding how harmful of a product they bought...and blame the consumer for not wanting to even find about what they are doing.
Everytime I think, write, or talk about this subject, I get extremely angry. I have wondered many times why my family chose (well...chose is not the right word...much of my mother's family was here before we came) to come to the US.
I wondered why they would choose to come to a country where after so many years, the real arrogance, selfishness, and sheer ignorance of the society here really shows through all that superficial glamour and glitz that attracts so many initially.
It's funny, my car broke down once near a fuel station about 20 miles from where I live. I pushed the car into the station, called my brother, and while waiting, I got to talk with station owner/worker. He was some Indian guy...after warming up to me, he told me he'd been here for 10 years...and he couldn't stop thinking of how the hell to get out of this place...
Different strokes for different folks...but I digress.
Noz-
I hear you, but the grass is always greener on the other side.
I do think there are many in the US that realize that we're heading in the wrong direction at multiple levels, hopefully this 'movement' can lead to something positive.
I always think about - and I can't remember the word now - that in Japan, for example, the word that stands for crisis is the same as for opportunity.
America still has the ability to help turn this crisis into an opportunity to make the world a better place. Considering the resources we've guzzled down the last couple of decades - we owe it to the world.
We'll probably fail, but that's what I keep pushing towards. If I just give up and give in to anger, I'd be a dead drunk in no time.
Dahc...
Hehe...well...having "lived" on the other side, I can say it really is greener..at least for me and people like me.
I have a gut feeling that McCain will win. I'm not saying the other two pathetic candidates are much better...but McCain is an outright disaster.
Ron Paul would fit best for me but forget it...the system is so corrupt that he's not given a chance. Think about the these people have that they shut down a candidate who was the most popular by far, had extreme internet presence (something we thought would make or break someone...but apparently not), and for the first time in a long time, moved the yout of this nation...something the people at the top fear greatly.
We owe ALOT to the world...but we're never going to give anything back unless it has some benefit to us.
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