I think it is unfair to call North Americans our worst enemy just because most people drive cars. We need new technologies for our cars. In this respect, the market has been our worst enemy for failing to reduce our dependence on gasoline.
The market?
Your rant at least serves to illustrate just what's wrong with popular thinking. You buy a gas guzzler, you perpetuate the problem. Simplistic example to be sure, but it exemplifies our society's short term thinking - ignorance at its worst.
You see high market prices for foreign oil as a threat, but see nothing wrong with consuming disproportionate amounts of a limited commodity. Apparently you see nothing wrong with a war that, in the absence of any other explanation, was designed to fill American gas tanks and appease the country from which most 9/11 attackers called home.
Indeed, let the market set price. In the end, our profilgate ways will kill us (metaphorically) because our society, and economy, will be one of the least in the world prepared to deal with soaring fuel prices and transportation costs.
You are blessing foreign policy designed to continue our dependence on foreign energy sources. Again, a short term measure, and one certain to increase the threat of terrorism, not lessen it.
I hate to tell you this, but nothing guarantees the US the right to take a disproportionate amount of finite world resources.
Don't confuse might with right. |
