Atleast the landscaping business is doing very good where i am. Thank god people are to lazy to do it themselfs!

...but i am a kind guy i mow a few old folks for free

Actually, the poorer you are, the less healthy you eat. Healthy foods cost more - fresh fruits, etc. It's cheaper to live on high fat meat and noodles. Poorer people gain weight from that diet.

I think that it's time that we owned up to our part in this pile of sh*t.

-Confusing capitalism with consumerism, then flirting with communism.
-Buying volume products rather than "heirloom."
-Getting stuck with grid electricity and oil. The Model T was made to run on homemade ethanol, the original diesel motor (patented by Mr. Diesel) was biodiesel, it ran on vegetable oil... also to be made at home. We used to be self-sufficient.
-Living on credit. Period.
-Knowing that what we eat is junk, but doing it anyway.
-Sending kids to a stupid school, where stupid politicians run stupid curriculum's so that kids that they've made stupid- won't fail.
-Arguing and voting along party lines for any reason, seriously, grow up and get your own opinion.
-Butting in to anything anywhere without getting our own stuff straight first. That applies to moral dictation, political finger-pointing etc.
-Blaming everything on everyone else.

It's a mess that we all made, not the Taliban, not the Mexicans, the welfare queens, not American pigs or Euro-trash, the gay people, the religious right, the black people, white people, rich people, Chinese or Russians; not even the tax-raising, pork-barreling, buttinski law-making, weaselly politicians.

We f*cked up.
{/rant}

ok..

yes, the first diesel engines were made to run on peanut oil as were the initial combustion engines.

but engineers soon discovered that hydrocarbons contained more potential chemical energy. further, people began to realize that to fuel all the combustion engines with peanut- and corn oil would soon begin to consume entire crops of those staple foods.

why burn staple crops for fuel when thousands of people are starving?? if you think apples and bread are expensive now, just wait until governments begin mandating that transportation fuel be made from food crops..

the only reason people are able to use cooking grease cheaply right now in their diesel engines is that there is relatively little pressure on that commondity..

think how expensive french fries would be if people were lined up behind the burger king waiting for the used fry oil..

the only reason anyone thinks that this is a good idea is that it's just **something** besides the evil that is "big oil"

feel-good solutions and tree-hugging rhetoric are not going to solve the energy problem..

need energy?? we split the atom well over a half century ago...

Ok.....that's good but what happens when that becomes depleted???

I wish a few young laides would say i cant pay the bill there must be another way......I would LOVE that

Stop buying your whining kids the name brand products they insist they must have to fit in at school.

I feel wind, water and solar are better options to generate power over nuclear....


just as many jobs can be created in the making of the turbines, photovoltaic cells,etc etc, as well as installation, and maintenance.... production cnstruction and maintenance are sustainable jobs... you guys in the US use sh*teloads of power

Jess


AGREED - nucluear energy is NOT CLEAN energy. As Jess says, there a many sources of 'renewable' virtually eternal energy sources that are clean and natureal. Researching them, building the necessary technology, even making them virtually self sufficient, would still require a labor force to attend to it all.

Nations and the alegience they request has so limited our natural vision. We have been TRAINED, conditioned, to see individual, family, friends, cities, states, nations, in that hirarchy. What happened to words like "the greater good?"