Forum Post: What the Fuck V: what the fuck . . .
Posted 10 years ago on May 18, 2014, 6:07 p.m. EST by ZenDogTroll
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from South Burlington, VT
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I bought 15 gallons of gasoline today for the lawn mower, nearly choking on the price tag - just under $60.00 including a gallon of water and a cup of coffee. What is worse is the knowledge that it is this price tag that makes tar sands exploitation so viable and even attractive, to the fossil fuel industry.
The only rational solution is to tax their profit and thus make the exploitation of tar sands a loosing proposition - but repelicans have already sold the mantra no new taxes to the vast majority of the nation - unless of course we happen to be talking tax on alternative energy sources that are decentralized . . .
These Koch Whore attacks on all forms of alternative energy just never seem to cease . . .
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So there I was, out running the roads this afternoon, when I saw a family of four out for a sunny Sunday afternoon bicycle ride. They were all sensibly, dutifully, attired in their stream lined and aerodynamic little dick head hats . . . the risks of head injury seemed completely mitigated by this young family.
For once memory did not turn on that blaring news article from so long ago, banner headline twice its normal size, agonizing over the strange and incomprehensible and totally fatal accident that befell a young mother on a national bicycle tour with her family - the second accident for her, having just recovered sufficiently from the first accident which had left her hospitalized at the local hospital for nearly a year . . . when death finally came for her it left her children by the roadside screaming . . .
It is only now memory takes this path of endless torment without explanation or reason . . . who can say what griefs may send a screaming man into madness . . . into mayhem . . . or onto murder . . .
but I digress . . .
Stopped at a light I watched as one of the two young boys fell to the sidewalk. Mother picked him up and I failed to witness more. Was he screaming? Did his tears quickly dry beneath this Sunday sun?
I have no idea . . . I have no idea for here we are, 190 years after the greenhouse effect was first documented and nearly 26 years since James Hansen first declared before Congress and so to the whole world:
here we are after all this time, no closer to any solution at all, and my mind preoccupied with the knowledge that the probability of happiness, or even survival, past the age of 50 for these two youngsters is an iffy proposition at best . . .
and for no explicable reason I began to snarl.
Vote by purchasing a battery powered lawnmower! I have one and it only takes 2 battery packs that it came with to mow my front lawn and yard :)
Vote by moving into an apartment, lawns are an ornamental waste of green space that would be better used for natural habitat or for food production.
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You wouldn't help me with my a.i. scheme so no. I don't like you enough, friend.
To work. That taxing would have to go hand in hand with a price freeze at the pump.
Works for me.
Ya see - if prices were not frozen at the pumps - Fossil Fuel would continue to raise the cost of their finished products - even if it only meant a few penny's per barrel of raw material profit. They would still be paying higher taxes on the profit - but they would still squeeze the customer for every penny that they could get - to add to their diminished profit whoring.
So a price freeze for finished product would need to be placed to keep the cost to the customer reasonable/workable/liveable. Or we see again an energy economy drought = jobs and business death due to fossil fuel cost ( we saw quite a bit of that during the wallstreet meltdown - it was an additional burden to business that drove many under).
hehehe... I like your post ZD... Right On !!!
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Buy one of those old-timey push lawn mowers. Good exercise and much better for the environment.
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Actions speak louder.
Like this guy
http://www.healthbeautylife.com/green-living-ed-begley-jr/
He walks the walk
Maybe get one of these if you are lazy
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/ed_begley_jr_climbs_aboard_a_w.html
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and you are one more of these
http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c046f53ef01543359eeeb970c-pi
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