America's glutonous footprint

Overcoming American Gluttony …By Alan Bisbort, Smirking Chimp. http://www.alternet.org/environment/53052/ …Posted June 5, 2007. … EXERPTED …………
Americans make the biggest environmental footprint on the planet but we have hundreds of excuses for never changing our behavior. Number one is that we are Americans.
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An economic expert recently claimed that if every American driver pledged to save one gallon of gas per week, the prices at the pump would plunge. Tom Kloza, analyst for the New Jersey-based Oil Price Information Service, said that a 1-percent dip in demand could shave as much as 50 cents a gallon off the price of gas. As the narrator in Bang the Drum Slowly would say, this hands me a laugh.
What country does this expert live in? More to the point, what planet is he from? Kloza ... that sounds vaguely foreign, maybe al-Qaeda, to me. Surely this guy's a terrorist to suggest Americans sacrifice one gallon per week! Either that or he's an extraterrestrial.


Overcoming American Gluttony …By Alan Bisbort, Smirking Chimp. http://www.alternet.org/environment/53052/ …Posted June 5, 2007. … EXERPTED …………
Americans make the biggest environmental footprint on the planet but we have hundreds of excuses for never changing our behavior. Number one is that we are Americans.
Bottom of Form
An economic expert recently claimed that if every American driver pledged to save one gallon of gas per week, the prices at the pump would plunge. Tom Kloza, analyst for the New Jersey-based Oil Price Information Service, said that a 1-percent dip in demand could shave as much as 50 cents a gallon off the price of gas. As the narrator in Bang the Drum Slowly would say, this hands me a laugh.
What country does this expert live in? More to the point, what planet is he from? Kloza ... that sounds vaguely foreign, maybe al-Qaeda, to me. Surely this guy's a terrorist to suggest Americans sacrifice one gallon per week! Either that or he's an extraterrestrial.
American gluttonous footprint is contagious and “we” – that’s you and me – choose to either ignore or point the finger of blame . . . !

It seems perfectly acceptable to Americans to be gluttonous respecting the manner “we” choose to interact as “we” pollute the collectively owned air and water owned by the whole of mankind.

“We” can overcome our American gluttony providing “we” choose to remove our collective heads from the “ostrich” position our corporate controlled educational process has chosen to “dumb” us down too. In today’s environment this may well sound a bit vaguely foreign or the uttering of some extraterrestrial.

Sacrificing one gallon of gas per week is from the point of view of George W. Bush and his science advisors at ExxonMobil truly un-American and totally unnecessary.