June
3rd 2008
Posted under Environmentalism
No not the color green.
Who knew? My, how things have changed.
From a paleo perspective, this is both positive (a rejection of crass materialism and conspicuous consumption) and negative (embracing the statism and questionable science of the environmentalists).
Gas prices really have changed the way people think and have altered lifestyles. Gone are my dreams of a big four wheel drive pick-up truck. For now, I’m just sticking with the minivan I inhereted.
Patroon on 03 Jun 2008 at 2:28 pm #
You’ll have to keep it for a while. GM just announced its closing four SUV and tracuk planst in the North American, including one in my home state of Wisconsin in Janesville which employs 2,600 people.
Andrew T. on 03 Jun 2008 at 4:11 pm #
Japanese Sedans for the win.
Andrew T. on 03 Jun 2008 at 4:18 pm #
Okay, I read the article. Hmm, and I was planning on having my first car be a used Mustang sport car. Not that that’s going to change (other than for perhaps unforeseen factors of cost or availability).
My, how things have changed, indeed. It’s amazing how fast the entire country has embraced the entire environmentalist doctrine post-Inconvenient Truth. The transition was blink-and-you-missed-it.
Weaver on 03 Jun 2008 at 4:22 pm #
well said.
csason on 03 Jun 2008 at 9:13 pm #
Yeah well all of these greenies missed the boat…
My Mama taught me to wash out plastic bags years ago.
She still sends goodies home in Cool Whip containers that were new
ten years ago.
I wonder how many Gorophiles have a compost heap ??
roho on 03 Jun 2008 at 9:59 pm #
I’m just not buying this oil shortage thing…..Peak oil is a hoax, and I suspect that our government is simply postponing the use of our own oil?…..I know people that were getting checks, and then their wells were capped and the checks stopped comming. I remember the Hunt Brothers manipulating the silver market, the Japanese filling entire lakes with coal for futures, and I believe the book “The Energy Non Crisis”.
I also believe that nuclear powered locomotives will someday pull train cars for virtually nothing all over the place.(At a cost less than trucking.)
But, I mostly believe that a “Corrupt Oil President” is making his friends and GOP doners so wealthy that funding for GOP candidates will NEVER be an issue again!….(Unless they end up in prison).
Somebody will pay a huge price for putting “America” on bicycles!
T. Chan on 04 Jun 2008 at 12:09 am #
If one concedes that the supply of oil is finite, then peak oil is real–it’s just a question of when, so long as we continue to extract it and have a demand for it.
Weaver on 04 Jun 2008 at 12:22 am #
I think roho meant the US government is allowing and maybe even helping prices to go up, and that we should maybe drill in Alaska.
Roho writes:
I’d hate to be nearby when two collide in a train wreck.
Filmer on 04 Jun 2008 at 1:28 am #
For the record, CHT supports American made green cars.
Andrew T. on 04 Jun 2008 at 3:24 am #
Assuming a free market, a nation of both producers and energy-using customers would automatically adjust to conditions of energy efficiency given the availabilities. The guaranteed element of failure would be government involvement.
As to Weaver’s statement: “I’d hate to be nearby when two collide in a train wreck.” If this is even the way that nuclear-powered devices work (don’t ask me), don’t you think that such issues would be given tremendous amounts of consideration by all parties of the energy business establishment, that they HAVE already been given a great deal of consideration? Not a lot of faith in the market, eh?
Weaver on 04 Jun 2008 at 12:37 pm #
Haha!
Andrew T. on 04 Jun 2008 at 2:47 pm #
Wait a minute…as far as I know, there really is not such a thing as a “nuclear-powered” vehicle, except in the sense that the source of its electricity comes from a nuclear power plant. And that happens to be a clean, extremely long-lasting source of energy.
Weaver on 04 Jun 2008 at 3:00 pm #
Red October.
Weaver on 04 Jun 2008 at 3:33 pm #
Where there’s easy money to be made, there’s a corporate leech and his army of lawyers, politicians, public relations personnel, etc. ready to reap a hefty profit.
A virtuous man could be trusted; a greedy or foolish man could not be trusted. Forget the market.
These market geniuses… Warren Buffett likes all three Presidential candidates: Obama, Hilary (gone I know), and McCain.
Andrew T. on 04 Jun 2008 at 4:00 pm #
Countless people die every year on car accidents or lose money. And oh, those fuel payments. Forget cars.
See? Wasn’t I being logical?
Weaver on 05 Jun 2008 at 12:06 am #
Yea I don’t much like cars – I’m more of a train guy in a car world.