Ok, I’m new here and I don’t know if this has been covered before, so forgive me if I’m rehashing something. I want to start a movement, the anti-terrorist, minimal oil use movement. I have a number of ulterior motive, I admit. I’m an environmentalist, a pagan, I hate SUVs, I think our president is stupid at best and most likely massively evil to boot. All of those are MY reasons, but I think we can sell a dramatic drop in oil consumption based on to great American traditions, greed and racism. I love the idea of the up coming campaign against SUVs claiming they support terrorism. Are they really wrong? High oil use benfits Arab kingdoms, that in turn support radical Muslim preachers that keep the people focused on the “Great Satan” (that’s US), so they won’t notice that the king lives in crazy luxury while the rest of the country is a 3rd world toilet.
So lets shame people out of their Navigator. And really Joe Bronco, I know you’re not a rugged, woodsy, wildman working by day at a bank but living for the weekend when you go back to living off the land. I used to be a rugged, woodsy, live off the land type, I know what they’re like. No true woodsman can afford a $30,000+ vehicle. Being rugged, woodsy et al involves sacrifices, one of them is that the rugged woodys jobs pay shit. So buy the 4 cylinder minivan that you need, your car is not what your are. And please, to the single women out there, stop getting all wet for the guys in these 4 wheel drive status symbols, they don’t deserve it. Lets make it noble, even sexy to ride the bus or your bike to work. In the age on the internet we don’t NEED big expensive symbols of wealth. If you really Must know how much someone makes, do a credit check. If you aren’t willing to do that, you don’t need to know. So as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself… to hell with ALL these oil producing lunatics, let them rot in a well lubricated hell. I’m taking the bus, riding my bike, sparingly driving my Honda Civic, and recycling everything I can. My thermostat is set at 67. I don’t spread fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide or other petro-chemcals on my lawn. In fact I’m doing away with grass entirely this spring and planting less labor intensive plants in my yard. So take your expensive, war inducing, nasty black liquid and keep it (or as much as I can POSSIBLY do without) away from me! I reject your oil, the polititians that lust for it, the machine that guzzle it, and ALL the religions that come from that area. If Osama Bin Liden’s family fortune was based on goats, would he be causing all this trouble?
If that were the case, you’d just be on here ranting mindlessly about Americans needing to give up goat cheese in favor of synthetic cheese like products.
If I see a goat riding terrorist attempt to ram one of our buildings, I’ll know your plea was successful.
As I recall, Osama bin Laden’s family money comes from construction, not oil.
And a great deal of the US’s oil is produced domestically, and a bunch comes from Canada, Mexico and South America. There’s no good reason to punish the industry as a whole for the actions of a few fucknuggets.
When American’s are restricted from using goats for their own fun and pleasure, then we know the terrorists have won.
Wow. Rabid environmentalist ranting AND religious bigotry, all in one neat package.
After a lengthy screed listing the reasons why he/she dislikes people who use more petroleum than the OP thinks is necessary (because he/she is a pagan? Er, what?), and after falsely implying that the majority of US oil comes from the Middle East, the OP proposes a campaign to lower oil consumption based on false premises.
In other words, the OP feels his or her actual arguments are weak or won’t be accepted by others, so he/she feels it necessary to make up fake reasons in order to guilt his/her fellows into lower oil consumption.
To the OP: you are aware that most of us are here to fight ignorance, not promote it, right?
Let me get this straight: People that really can use large, powerful 4x4s can’t afford them?
You’ll have to tell that to the probably 10K people in my area that need (yes, need) powerful 4x4s pickups and SUVs to get out in the sticks. Let me know when you plan on doing this so I can tape it. Jack-ass might want to use it as an idea for a stunt after seeing the asskicking you’ll certainly get.
[Barney Gumble]Go back to Russia![/Barney Gumble]
You mean like computers to access the internet? Or ISP’s to access the internet? Or cablemodems/DSL to access it at a decent speed.
If only we could build a high-rise out of the corpses of capitalist bastards that was large enough to hold the rest of the population so we wouldn’t have to travel. Then everything would be better.
I don’t think that very many people are using Netscape Navigator these days. What? Are we done here?
Tabs and spaces take up hardly any natural resources. You might want to consider paragraphs.
I think that gave you away…
[sub]lambasted, picked to pieces, all becuz Ize a newbie…durn[/sub]
Well, that and the fact that you don’t seem to know much about what you’re talking about. :rolleyes:
The problem with your post is that you assume (based on your post anyway), that the oil producing countries are 100% populated and ran by terrorists.
That is racist at best. Islamic/Muslim nation is NOT synonomous with “terrorist” nation.
And as for you being an “environmentalist”…
Oh Reaaallly? Sorry, there is a LOT more to being an environmentalist than just spouting off nonsense about SUVs.
I don’t like them either, but my dislike of SUVs has nothing to do with their fuel usage. But to cite them as the cause of all that is evil and that they support terrorism? Well, that’s just plain silly.