Cash for Clunkers and…
Watching the government is like watching a car wreck. It’s disgusting, but I can’t look away. And what makes it worse; the older I get, the worse it looks, the more pissed off I get, the more dis empowered and disenfranchised I feel, but the more I want to get involved.
The idea (rebate checks for turning in pos cars) was good but DC got “political” and as usual effed it up. Bush gave tax rebates for SUVs and Escalades. People didn’t bitch then. Well I did. Now you actually have to turn in a car to get money from a purchase. Not a bad idea actually. But why, instead of making scrap metal, couldn’t the gov take in a car, fit it to natural gas or some other fuel and sell it at auction. Wow, that would have created lots of jobs!
It makes sense why they didn’t though. The government now makes cars. Hopefully We (the government) make sure emission standards and fuel efficiency standards meet the needs of our future. Not the needs of greedy tycoons who just want more of your money.
Honestly though, I walk. Haven’t owned a car since 1989. At the time, for three years, I drove a 1977 cutlass cruiser station wagon. Think it got around 8-10mpg. Drove 24 miles just to school, work and home. I loved driving. Drove to the beach, to the hills, around, just because I could. Been feeling guilty ever since. And I lived in the “boonies” where you actually had to drive to get to just about anywhere but the neighbors cow pasture.
We’ve created cars as a “right of passage”. You’re 16, immature, irresponsible, and because your in the US, dumb as a post that can add some and write, but not spell! Here you go, pass a couple of easy tests and then we’ll give you the keys to 2000+ pounds of killing machine. Either you’ll kill yourself, your passengers, other drivers, pedestrians, birds, dogs, cats, deer, bugs and anything else that just happened to be walking or flying by. But oh yeah, it also runs on fuel we kill for overseas. And it farts out noxious gases that will kill your unborn grandbabies. Maybe the planet too.
FUCK CARS!!!
Brainwashed masses thinking it’s alright. The obese and uneducated sucking fumes watching cars drive circles.
The “news” is paid for by cars (and pharmaceuticals). So the news won’t spend too much time informing us of alternatives.
Our city planners are convinced the car is just the way it is. Sprawl has followed. Disconnecting us from each other. Yet, making a two or more mile round-trip to the 24-hour drive through to put fast food into a fat ass at 2am is “convenient”.
Now don’t get me wrong, I carry my fair share of more than I need on my own fat ass. And if I want to go to the desert, mountains or beach, I’ll rent a car to get me there. But we’ve built a society that is divided from itself. Both from people and from nature. The car culture has done much of this dividing.
So, after all of that.
What about cash for old inefficient washers and dryers. Rebates for rain barrels, water-wise landscaping, double pained glass… “Here’s 4000 for some solar panels” made in the U S.
What truly lacks in our government, since 1963, is leadership. True “get up america and lets do something cool and beautiful” leadership.
Okay, I’m done ranting for now… Nope…
Fuck the corporations!
Okay, now I”m done
