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The U.S. Government should NOT . ..worry about this environmental, conservation thing…

I mean paying lip service to the issues surrounding preserving the environment is a much better strategy and a whole lot cheaper than trying to reinstitute a real clean air or water act or acting responsibly or in a breakthrough way as a nation when it comes to energy conservation.

We have a right to live the way we want here in the U.S. This is a country that does what it wants when it wants and that’s reflected in our energy and environmental policies as a nation…yah, that’s right…

Heck, our bloated lifestyle, which is clearly the coolest, most fun lifestyle on the planet can continue while we make the environment and energy consumption other people’s problems. If they were as cool as we are they would drive huge cars, relax emission standards and deadlines for gas mileage, throw away instead of recycle and live here in the U.S. like we do right?

I mean really, isn’t this place planet earth put here by some divine being for us to exploit and squeeze the life out of so that we can get richer, more self-indulgent and less informed without having to worry about the consequences. What are the consequences anyway? Aren’t you gonna be dead? Yah, me too!!

What do we care whether we throw our cigarettes out the window or recycle that water bottle (which we now want to drink from ‘cause we don’t want to touch the tap water anymore).

And while I’m on the subject of water…Who cares if we put some stuff in the ground that then toxifies rivers. Aren’t there a bunch of rivers in this country. So eventually we’ll run out. I get it. But in the meantime, this is our crib man, and if we wanna go to the bathroom in the kitchen well that’s what we’ll do.

Hey that’s why we dumped radioactive waste from the Hanford Nuclear Power plant right IN the mighty Columbia river. So what if the fish there are radioactive and there are signs of that in the livestock nearby and the salmon population is way down and the food chain is contaminated with cancer causing toxins.

I know all that but I need power for my 52” plasma to run my high def receiver. Plus, can’t we find salmon and livestock elsewhere?

Put a memo out saying where the polluted stuff is and we’ll avoid it as best we can.

I mean it’s going to be so polluted here on earth soon that we won’t be able to live healthily anyway. So why not just dump our stuff where we want and lift more of the regulations on these big companies... most are going to other countries anyway to avoid what few environmental restrictions still exist here.

We want them to do business HERE so that we can make some more money and jobs here in this country, which from what I hear, has more money issues than a shopoholic housewife at Pottery Barn with the family credit card.

We, meaning the U.S. government, have undone a lot of those environmental restrictions that have hindered corporate giants and have asked a lot of them to police themselves. There is still a bunch more to go.

Energy policies have slipped away from us and gas cannot get expensive enough for us to roll our consumption back so it would seem.

Do we possess the will as a country to change?? Well, we possess the power to change. We have to find the will to change. We have made monster changes in our political representation because of war policy and global strategy. Messages need to be sent to our political representatives and then we need to vote with our pocketbooks.

Change means caring about companies’ energy efficiency and it also means insisting on our own energy efficiency.

Together we can share the burden and make energy conservation and energy consumption as a country and as individuals the work of our every day life.

We ARE America and we can do anything we want. It’s time to start wanting.

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