bebeto
10-31-2002, 03:07 PM
Arianna Huffington article (http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/10/22/oil/index.html)
I thought this was pretty funny stuff. Here you go, Mr. and Mrs. America. Now where did I place that bong?
Wouldn't it be something if Bush got off his keister and did like Kennedy did for NASA, a la, "we will be fossil-fuel free in twenty years". Huge science and technology grants for renewable energy research. No grants anymore for fossil fuel research, only fossil fuel conservation.
Major tax breaks for recycling and conservation. Not this lame thousand off your gross kind of break, either. Big breaks for companies too. Think about the offices, schools, stores where you work. Is there any motivation to conserve energy? Come on! When budget cutting comes around, it's usually people getting cut before the lights do. How about the zillion CRTs sucking down the wattage?
You use less water than average, you get a tax break, you use less energy, you use less gas, you use less heating oil or natural gas than average, you get a break, etc. Ride a bike, take a bus, take a train, ka-ching! Hell, the phone company's computers could figure out all that, the same way they handle cell phone bills. (Saints preserve us.) A Republican could probably sell it to his fellow money-grubbing ilk. Jump-start the economy, you damned hee-haw! Put all them unix geeks and venture capitalists back to work! Pay all the yahoos getting laid off from Lucent to figure out how to pipe sunshine down fiber optic cable.
I thought this was pretty funny stuff. Here you go, Mr. and Mrs. America. Now where did I place that bong?
Wouldn't it be something if Bush got off his keister and did like Kennedy did for NASA, a la, "we will be fossil-fuel free in twenty years". Huge science and technology grants for renewable energy research. No grants anymore for fossil fuel research, only fossil fuel conservation.
Major tax breaks for recycling and conservation. Not this lame thousand off your gross kind of break, either. Big breaks for companies too. Think about the offices, schools, stores where you work. Is there any motivation to conserve energy? Come on! When budget cutting comes around, it's usually people getting cut before the lights do. How about the zillion CRTs sucking down the wattage?
You use less water than average, you get a tax break, you use less energy, you use less gas, you use less heating oil or natural gas than average, you get a break, etc. Ride a bike, take a bus, take a train, ka-ching! Hell, the phone company's computers could figure out all that, the same way they handle cell phone bills. (Saints preserve us.) A Republican could probably sell it to his fellow money-grubbing ilk. Jump-start the economy, you damned hee-haw! Put all them unix geeks and venture capitalists back to work! Pay all the yahoos getting laid off from Lucent to figure out how to pipe sunshine down fiber optic cable.