Originally posted by: SammySon
"What's your point? Do they really have a choice on how to live? Not really.
I personally try to limit my consumption as much as possible. "
Point is, you're a fvcking hypocrite! We're supposed to drive go-karts, because the rest of the world does (supposedly for conservation reasons ), yet you choose to live in a huge house in comparison to what they do, using lots of natural resources to keep it up.
It's by necessity they live in rabbit hutches, NOT conservation mindedness. It's because of overbearing taxes that Europeans drive eensie-mobiles, NOT conservation mindedness.
Well, since I don't live in a large house, I guess that statement is complete fallacy. In fact, my two bedroom apt. isn't that large at all. Nor does it consume that many resources since I live alone, and don't spend a lot of time there.
Your apartment is big enough to support an entire Japanese extended family. How decadent to say it isn't large!
You don't have to drive a go-kart, you just don't have to drive a friggin land tank. Plain and simple.
Funny how America always thinks it's the most moral, or the most right.
Who says what you choose to drive, has anything to do with what's right or moral? Why do I have to justify what I do or buy to anyone? Guess we should all become some kind of cult that owns nothing, with an allegiance only to our fellow man.
America has cheap oil because we use under-handed tactics to move our influence into areas abundant in oil.
Funny how America always has a hand in the "revolution" and "uprisings" in oil rich countries in South America.
If we didn't have cheap oil, then we wouldn't drive big cars, plain and simple.
Cheap gasoline is the reason we drive decent size cars, but cheap oil is available to everybody, as TC mentioned already. Feel free to read his post, it's VERY good.
Europeans CAN drive large cars, they just choose not to. Full size BMW's are as abundant over there as SUVs are here.
Uh, you bet.
The taxes were made by officials that were voted in by the general populace. So it's not the big bad govt. restricting what the people can have. It's the people making choices.
Where as here in America, we vote in people like Bush. Who sign bills that remove environmental protections and ease corporate restrictions. Gee, with people like him in office, I wonder what kind of energy policies are being put in place. They won't be energy conservative. These policies only hurt poor, insignificant guys like you an I.
Insignificant guys like me want to drive decent sized vehicles without getting raped by taxes, and herded through these BS emission test stations, or having our cars made so GD complicated by all the emission related crap on board.
But, this IS the best country in the world right?
Class divide is a naturally occuring thing right?
Yes, and yes.
For Americans it will always be, bigger, better and faster. Simply because we don't know and better, or more importantly don't CARE. When in Rome right?
If I'm a hypocrite than you are a typical apathetic, ever-justifying, "do it because we can", wasteful blue collar american.
Thank God it's a free, non Communist, non Socialist country where I DON'T have to justify my actions to you or anybody else. No, I wouldn't have it any other way!
