09-22-2010, 11:33 PM
Kevin, not the glue, the plastic bottle! 
Certainly oil has its issues, but I just don't see us Americans and Canadians doing any significant weaning off of it anytime soon. If each of us looks around our homes, we'll see that 99.9% of everything we have is oil related in way or another. I just don't see us giving up any luxuries to significantly affect the need for oil. Oh, we'll do little things to make ourselves feel better - we'll talk the talk, but none of us are going to walk the walk... as in give up all use of petroleum related products. Now that's what I am talking about! If I ran across a person who totally gave up the use of all petroleum based products, man, I would stand in awe of that guy and put him up on a pedestal! But the guy who proclaims "I am saving the earth because I cut my driving down from 175 miles a week to 150," well, the only acknowledgement he'll get from me is "hypocrite!"
Certainly oil has its issues, but I just don't see us Americans and Canadians doing any significant weaning off of it anytime soon. If each of us looks around our homes, we'll see that 99.9% of everything we have is oil related in way or another. I just don't see us giving up any luxuries to significantly affect the need for oil. Oh, we'll do little things to make ourselves feel better - we'll talk the talk, but none of us are going to walk the walk... as in give up all use of petroleum related products. Now that's what I am talking about! If I ran across a person who totally gave up the use of all petroleum based products, man, I would stand in awe of that guy and put him up on a pedestal! But the guy who proclaims "I am saving the earth because I cut my driving down from 175 miles a week to 150," well, the only acknowledgement he'll get from me is "hypocrite!"
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