the average American accounts for three times as much carbon as the average Chinese. If you look at it per person instead of per country, the US are still the biggest pigs...oink oink!

Are you enjoying the race to the bottom? The chinese are bringing 2 coal burning plants online a week. And these aren't the 'clean' coal burning plants either.

So when I exchange my gas guzzler Toyota Sequoia for a Honda what am I supposed to do with the Toyota? If I sell it that helps my bottom line but if someone else is going to be driving it what's the point? I'm not really helping the environment. Am I supposed to take a $20K car to the crushing yard to make sure it doesn't get driven? Yipes!

And what's the deal with deisel being over $4 per gallon? I thought it needed much less refining than gasoline. They tricked us into buying all these deisel trucks and now they are sticking it to us good. I'm a cabinet maker with a 100 mile delivery zone and I have to have a truck for delivery and install.

I saw a new four door Honda civic hybrid drive by me the other day and the fuel econony sticker in the window said 27 / 35 WTF? 27 miles per gallon for a hybrid? What the hell is going on around here? My 8000 lb Sequoia gets 15 for crying out loud!

Let's get this straight - They are now No. 1 because we buy a huge portion of the consumer products and materials that they produce. In my opinion we are still No. 1 because we are the ones doing the majority of the consuming and they want to be like us. A big chunk of their emissions is related to energy used to create the products we all consume. Embodied carbon does not really figure into these calculations. We are still the problem - they are just feeding our insatiatable appetite for more stuff to feed our fickle materialistic souls on our errant journey toward oblivion...but all this shit makes me happy...Not!!!

Let's here it for carbon neutral peace, love and happiness...

~W~