Conserving gas? Maybe I'll sit this one out.

[Democrats_win]

Perhaps I'll drive as much as I can. After all, I've been conserving since 2000 while the "patriots" have been driving their Hummers. Back then I saw conservation as a way to support our troops and America against those who attacked us. My goal was also to lower demand so that prices would decline. My efforts saved me money, enough money to do what I please now.

The way I see it, conservation now is to save George W. Bush and to give the really rich enough fuel to get to their country clubs. Maybe I'm wrong in my logic and feel free to point out where I'm wrong, but as far as I'm concerned my conservation days are over, at least for now.

[mom cat]

1. We need to do it for the earth...not for George. However, I

agree with your rage.

[niallmac]

2. Ha! Interesting Perspective!

Won't become a huge national movement I don't think but strangely logical.

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Wrong - the issue is one manifestation or another of Peak Oil

And, while I don't buy into the Malthusianism of James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century), suffice it to say that as we have to drill deeper and deeper, in more and more remote places, with stranger and stranger sounding names, where they like us less and less, and the oil is harder and harder to refine (more cyclics, higher molecular weights, more sulfur) - it's going to be those of us on the lower end of the totem pole (or income distribution curve) who are going to get screwed.

See my blog: http://thinkersunderground.blogspot.com[br />]