Apathy & Wal-Mart

Do Americans care anymore about what happens to this country and to this planet? The ad says that Wal-Mart buys 70% of their goods from China, and lists the reasons why this damages the US - pollution, loss of American jobs, dangerous products on the shelves - yet every time I drive by Wal-Mart, the store is packed. At what point will Americans realize that the easy choice in the short term will lead to our own demise? If we're "green" here, but buy products that are made elsewhere with deplorable environmental standards...what does "green" mean? It's worthless. Pollution in one part of the planet affects the rest of it. It is time for the end of apathy. wakeupwalmart.com

Is it time for a boycott of gasoline?

There is no apparent end in sight for the price of a barrel of oil. Is it time to boycott gas? Isn't it time for Americans to realize the stranglehold this fuel is placing on us? When will it hurt enough?

The Electric Car

I sit here watching the price of oil climb because of: (1) tensions in the Middle East (valid tensions, no doubt), (2) speculation on the part of those who profit from commodities, and (3) general fiscal mismanagement within so many sectors of this nation's economy that I can't comprehend the extent. I have to wonder why we do not already have plug-in, clean, efficient electric cars when the technology was ALREADY developed and we have big names, like T. Boone Pickens and his Pickens Plan, who say that wind and solar power are within reach of development on a massive scale that would supplant our import of foreign oil. Why? What will it take to realize that we are creating our own oil crisis?

I can't say whether the Pickens Plan will work, but I recognize that if someone of his expertise is seeing a way to profit from the development of sustainable resources, then it must be possible. People like that don't get into a business to give away the profits. The time is NOW to revive the electric car. www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com