The guest post from alphabitch of awesome blog f*cking c*nts has been delayed until tomorrow.
In the meantime, has anyone else noticed that whenever someone comes up with a perfectly good idea to save energy, some (usually republican) buzzkill points out that all by itself, this perfectly good idea can’t completely and utterly annihilate the energy crisis. The latest in this string is Obama’s comment that people could save gas by keeping their tires inflated, an idea ridiculed by the McCain campaign (despite estimates that correct tire pressure and regular maintenance could have an immediate effect on gas consumption much greater than this offshore drilling in 10 years bullshit.)
But that’s not the point. Solving the energy crisis does not require a single, silver-bullet solution. Hundreds of millions of people applying a proliferation of modest energy saving techniques can add up to an enormous impact.
Perhaps these critical assholes are just desperately employing whatever rhetorical bullshit they can think of in a throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks strategy to discredit Barrack “the-second-coming-of-christ” Obama. But I think there’s a simpler explanation.
Republicans can’t add.
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Politicians are morons? What a shock.
As a staunch believer that the Republican party is far too close to socialism for my liking, I would simply like to assert my ability to count.
That out of the way, I should also say that there is nothing to make me want not to have anything to do with the republican party like the current presidential candidate from that side of the aisle.
I don’t understand the desperate need that many people have for everything to have a deeper, environmentally-conscious meaning. Sure, it’s great to want to make a difference to help the greater good and save Mother Earth, Mother Goose, Mother Russia, and Father Christmas, while you’re at it.
But keeping your tyres inflated properly is bloody good sense, environment or no environment. Proper tyre inflation makes your driving safer, more efficient, smoother, less likely to end in puncture or, worse, uncontrollable skid from sidewall collapse, and more sexy. Perhaps not more sexy. That being said, though, who wants a guy with soggy, bottom-filled, uneven tyres on his pimp’d, bling’d, hopefully-wash’d, ride. (Tempted to say ride’d, but that makes no sense, even in my creatively modified view of the English language.)
So yes, I agree. Little things done by many people will help the environment. But if you want people to do things to help the environment, stop telling people it’s to help the environment. Tell them why it’s good for them today. Why it will get them more money, less stress, more safety, bundles of nookie. Especially the safety one. Yes, I’m serious, 9 doctors agree, safety is more important to the masses than gettin’-down-in-ye-olde-sack. No, I’m not going to tell you which 9 or how big the sample group was. That would kill the enjoyment of obstructionist policies of disclosure that have made the western advertising world what it is today.
‘Night.