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Green Day my arse! So what's the big deal?
Been there....done that....even got the T-shirt!

In graduate school in the 60s we had a green (faded lime) VW bus with graffiti of the era that no one owned....it just stayed with the frat house and passed on to residents year by year.
In service we wore green shorts to cover up our green shorts.
Green socks showed natural aging with no agenda.
We drank green beer on St. Patty's Day.
I even tried some green pot and puked green!

I consider everyone on this forum a conservationist of sorts as most of us like
to catch fish and eat them....saving them from a terrible future as otherwise they
would probably only live to be eaten by a bigger fish.

Al Gore has admitted his efforts to save the world have proved ineffective and
insists the answer is to produce another movie. WTH? Guess he needs another Oscar or peace prize!
The two most wasted Nobel Peace awards ever went to Jimmy Carter and
Al Gore (now there's a rabbit trail we should discuss sometime).

As long as his pious as# rides around in a jet and makes millions from selling
carbon credits (another rabbit trail we should discuss sometime)
to idiots I'll keep living my lifestyle. My old GMC gets about 18mpg on a good day driving back and forth from Albany to Anky and my wife's SUV is fuel efficient at
22 mpg. My 90 Yammie burns gas and oil at an alarming rate and I enjoy
each outing without exception.

GREEN has become a hot button without meaning! The concept is a
continuum and there is no end point. Currently it's about 99.9%
commercial (for profit) and the rest lip service at best.

Yesterday at lunch I observed something really awesome. Sitting at
a red light I looked over at a new car the same putrid green as that old
VW bus....you guessed it.......a new expensive hybrid! What goes around
comes around! History does repeat itself.

Peace my friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hummm.....maybe I'll spray paint my old GMC that same putrid green color...!

We didn't have a green VW bus at ABAC but I do recall drinking green beer and puking green once or twice.
With all of that being said, the whole "green" movement has been good for business as the company I work for builds and designs alternative fuel (it used to be called waste but corporate America doesn't like that term) fired boilers.
Conservation shouldn't and doesn't need a spokesman or require a movement just common sense in my opinion. Everyday should be a day to make sure we pass along something better to future generations. Our parents tried to make this a better place and we should as well. Kinda one of those sins of the father things I guess.
Then again what do I know?

I currently own a green VW bus....

It's definately a bunch of hoo-hoo I was getting a haircut yesterday with my 4 year old, when my barber's phone rang. He told the person on the other end to come on by and that it was slow....just 2 regulars there (me and my son). About 5 minutes later, in comes Gov. Crist for a quick trim. He sits down and starts reading a Florida Sportsman magazine. I try to make conversation, but you could tell he was there for a quick trim and not much for "socializing." He said he was hurrying to get to a tree planting ceremony for Earth Day. I just kinda laughed cause he seemed like it was something that he was having to do and not really up for it. When he walked in, I was telling my barber how much it sucked that the day before we had to throw back so many fish due to the new regulations by the state. He didn't comment, just flipped through the magazine. A few minutes later, I was done and I bid him a good day. I thought it was kind of interesting that his detail had his black Suburban backed right up to the front door of the shop, running with the AC full blast. Of course, it did have the green stickers on the back showing everyone that it was running on ethanol. Kinda funny.....I would like to get me one of those for my gas hog ('87 K-5 Silverado) which happened to be parked right next to his. Then I could at least look politically correct too

dolphinatic wrote:It's definately a bunch of hoo-hoo I was getting a haircut yesterday with my 4 year old, when my barber's phone rang. He told the person on the other end to come on by and that it was slow....just 2 regulars there (me and my son). About 5 minutes later, in comes Gov. Crist for a quick trim. He sits down and starts reading a Florida Sportsman magazine. I try to make conversation, but you could tell he was there for a quick trim and not much for "socializing." He said he was hurrying to get to a tree planting ceremony for Earth Day. I just kinda laughed cause he seemed like it was something that he was having to do and not really up for it. When he walked in, I was telling my barber how much it sucked that the day before we had to throw back so many fish due to the new regulations by the state. He didn't comment, just flipped through the magazine. A few minutes later, I was done and I bid him a good day. I thought it was kind of interesting that his detail had his black Suburban backed right up to the front door of the shop, running with the AC full blast. Of course, it did have the green stickers on the back showing everyone that it was running on ethanol. Kinda funny.....I would like to get me one of those for my gas hog ('87 K-5 Silverado) which happened to be parked right next to his. Then I could at least look politically correct too

Amen my man!

Hypocrisy in action! GREEN sticker covers a multitude of sins!

I celebrated Earth Day in style...I got the Chevy dealer to give me a quote on a hybrid Tahoe and then laughed my butt off at him, when he did

The thing about hybrids is that although they get better gas mileage and reduce emissions, the batteries go bad after a few years and cost an arm and leg to replace. Batteries have terrible chemicals that eventually find their way to water. I guess every little bit helps.

Every day, I am realizing the size of my carbon foot print, and I am trying to do something about it. Actually bought some of those re-usable shopping bags last night, and started riding my bicycle to work on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Small steps are the easiest way to start making a big difference.

I've never checked my "carbon footprint." I have never really thought that anything I do on a day-to-day basis is ruining the environment or even remotely causing so called man-made global warming. Therefore I don't care what my footprint is. I think that it is somewhat arrogant for man to think he can alter the complex system of environment that God himself designed....especially from driving a gas guzzling SUV or using certain light bulbs. The day we check out of here or the planet erupts into a ball of fire is going to be on His terms, not ours. There's a reason He told us to "multiply and replenish the earth" & gave us dominion over the animals He must trust us

Crist is just like all the politicians. When he has a big camera in front of his face, he is your best friend. Get him one on one, he does not know you.

Politicians remind me of the companies like AT&T that spend millions on commercials telling you how important you are and how good their service is. They even call you with "surveys". But try to call for some service, and you are peeved off because you have to wait 30 minutes to talk to someone (after pressing an exact sequence of numbers on your keypad), then you get Achmed from India on a VOIP line that i so staticy you cannot hear them. Plus, his english is so broken you just give up. Oh, and of course, his name is "John". Yeah, right.

Oh, wait, I know why they are alike. The companies own the politicians.

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