ETHANOL HUMMERS – WHAAAAAT?!

It’s like:

I’ll have a double BigBurg with extra cheese and bacon,
supersize the fries and I’d like a deep-fried sugar pie also please.
Oh, and an extra large supersize diet soda …
cuz i’m on a diet.

American drivers, ethanol is your saccharin:
swap tooth decay and obesity for cancer…?

The ethanol Hummer is the metaphorical diet soda at the end of the fast-food order above.

Oil is not the real enemy; the American dream is.

Please, America (Canada, UK, et al), go to a shrink and get cured of your unwholesome, insatiable greed and prideful conspicuous consumption.

Our obsession with material possessions as status symbols is killing us all.

I saw an interesting reality show the other day about Americans who came into money suddenly/unexpectedly – most of them squander it in just a few years and go back to square one. After hearing/seeing a few of these sad little stories, I noticed the common themes: buying themselves ridiculously expensive status-symbol cars, and buying fancy cars for their grasping ‘friends’ and relatives. I don’t mention the real-estate, which although it is part of the whole conspicuous consumption mental disease, tends to be a good investment, appreciating in value with time, unlike cars, which usually depreciate with time.

Meanwhile, George Bush is running around the Middle East trying to get them to drop oil prices so the American shoppers can continue to guzzle resources like junkies who have run out of money and are now starting to beg/borrow/steal to support their consumerist addictions.

The US government is its citizens’ destructive codependent enabler, their Howard K Stern….