Why should I not blame the Government & the Big Industries.
I'm looking for a new car for my wife, our car gets roughly 34-36 mpg. With her new job she drives twice the distance. There are only 2 vehicles on the American Market that gets 40 or better mpg & 1 that gets 50 mpg or better & she ain't quitting to be closer to home. That's criminal to offer that on the public & not offer better than that. The government gives power plants the ok to write off to lower standards, again criminal. What the public on their own could do by be being personally responsible in a year is wiped out in a day by what the government lets big industry get away with. Let's be honest here. No matter what the people of the US do it won't change all that much unless they demand a change in their government & in the policies toward the mega industries. We can all do our little parts but they don't amount to a hill of beans compared to what's really causing the problems. Truth be told gas & diesel should be obsolete by now as well as the use of fossil fuels & until industry & government can figure out how to gear themselves up to really exploit energy from tides, wind, wave, solar, hydro, magnetic, geo-thermal & other non destructive & non polluting alternatives we're sunk. Lifestyle changes alone won't do squat & neither will relying on government & industry until they are forced to change their policy (not ours lives, simple education will go a long way there). When it finally comes down to survival, which is fast approaching, & it's a matter of government & industry or us, government & industry will change because they've drained all the profit out it what ever it is they're supplying & there's not a penny more to be had by continuing. Then they'll tell us that change is in the wind, probably to late by then but that's when & how it'll happen & not before. We just will not face the fact that this is what's happened & that it can't happen here & that this is where we are & that we did it to ourselves & let it go this far. Unless we become radical & extreme & demand change NOW, not tomorrow, we can't afford to wait & let these forces continue to act as if they're acting in our best interests, they are NOT. I'm not saying a revolution but it's gonna take damn near close to one to make a reversal in nature. We're now seeing a loss in artic animals along with the ice, not to mention the global deterioration going on elsewhere. Nature keeps throwing us the signs but we're culturally blind & we are only beginning to pay the price, wait till she decides to exact a toll on us, it's not gonna be pretty. Ok, the sky ain't falling & the sun's still shinning you say & you're right but the sun doesn't need to stop shinning & the sky doesn't need to fall & we don't need to be here to see that it doesn't happen either.

Barry