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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 210339" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It has to be you and me!! A day doesn't go by that we don't receive an education about how we’re all ego, we’re spoiled, entitled, selfish and warped by luxury…) So…. Whatda we do? <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/mad.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-shortname=":mad:" /></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Cars. The non green vehicles and SUV’s have to go. Spend 32 grand on a Prius that cost 5 grand to produce, or lease the new Lexus 450GS sedan for 1200 bucks a month.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">But… what if a Prius really is harder on the environment than a Hummer? <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/sad.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sad:" title="Sad :sad:" data-shortname=":sad:" /></span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/io/2007/03/is_a_prius_worse_for_the_envir.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080">http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/io/2007/03/is_a_prius_worse_for_the_envir.html</span></span></span></u></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Light bulbs. We’re supposed to change our light bulbs to the compact flourscent ones, even though they contain mercury…</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Energy. How about wind farms? But no, they kill birds…</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Go easy on the H20. Stop buying bottled water for crying out loud. There’s nothing wrong with what comes out of your tap. How much co2 is produced carting this stuff around in trucks?</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I tried living without the dishwasher for a day, naahhh…</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gasoline (I). Buy straight vegetable oil -- some restaurants will even give it and a conversion kit. Have a mechanic look over your shoulder on this one, though…</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gasoline (II). Do road construction at night. (Cooler for the workers and no bumper to bumper traffic for commuters)</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">But one of the real pissers IMO ….(sorry, not very lady like here…)</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I have friends in the army who’ve been stationed in Germany twice now. According to them, once a European autobahn is built, it lasts for 50 years. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">That makes us look like crap!! What’s up with our road crews repairing the same road every summer? Ah HAH!! Contractors like using shoddy materials to build highways because the roads that fall apart keep them busy!</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With 4 million miles of roads and highways in this country, how much asphalt (petroleum) are we talking here for their never ending repairs and maintainence? State and local governments award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, meaning they get the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">My brother in law is an engineer and was an inspector at the Denver International </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Airport when it was built about a decade ago. The same applies even to airports - State and local governments award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, meaning they get the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But you and I as individuals are the ones who are told to suck it up…<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/confused1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-shortname=":confused:" />1</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 210339, member: 8657"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]It has to be you and me!! A day doesn't go by that we don't receive an education about how we’re all ego, we’re spoiled, entitled, selfish and warped by luxury…) So…. Whatda we do? :mad:[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Cars. The non green vehicles and SUV’s have to go. Spend 32 grand on a Prius that cost 5 grand to produce, or lease the new Lexus 450GS sedan for 1200 bucks a month.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]But… what if a Prius really is harder on the environment than a Hummer? :sad:[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [URL="http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/io/2007/03/is_a_prius_worse_for_the_envir.html"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080]http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/io/2007/03/is_a_prius_worse_for_the_envir.html[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Light bulbs. We’re supposed to change our light bulbs to the compact flourscent ones, even though they contain mercury…[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Energy. How about wind farms? But no, they kill birds…[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Go easy on the H20. Stop buying bottled water for crying out loud. There’s nothing wrong with what comes out of your tap. How much co2 is produced carting this stuff around in trucks?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I tried living without the dishwasher for a day, naahhh…[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Gasoline (I). Buy straight vegetable oil -- some restaurants will even give it and a conversion kit. Have a mechanic look over your shoulder on this one, though…[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Gasoline (II). Do road construction at night. (Cooler for the workers and no bumper to bumper traffic for commuters)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]But one of the real pissers IMO ….(sorry, not very lady like here…)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I have friends in the army who’ve been stationed in Germany twice now. According to them, once a European autobahn is built, it lasts for 50 years. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]That makes us look like crap!! What’s up with our road crews repairing the same road every summer? Ah HAH!! Contractors like using shoddy materials to build highways because the roads that fall apart keep them busy![/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With 4 million miles of roads and highways in this country, how much asphalt (petroleum) are we talking here for their never ending repairs and maintainence? State and local governments award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, meaning they get the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]My brother in law is an engineer and was an inspector at the Denver International [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Airport when it was built about a decade ago. The same applies even to airports - State and local governments award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, meaning they get the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]But you and I as individuals are the ones who are told to suck it up…:confused1[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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