Benjamin Stewart Brown (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} logic_man) wrote,@ 2008-06-12 16:35:00 |
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The Bullshit of Driving
Gas has now averaged out to be four dollars nation wide, in Jacksonville you can still find some stations with gas at 3.89 but that's about as cheap as you get. Hah! Kinda funny, thinking of three dollar gas as cheap! Anyway, I'm not a driver so why exactly am I complaining? I complain on behalf of all the morons who crucify SUV drivers and all the morons who stick to the old false idea's about the SUV and the excuses their drivers throw out.
First, let me state that it's bull that non-SUV drivers are using SUV drivers as a sort of scapegoat. Not really surprising, but BS none-the-less. When there is clearly a much bigger problem than who drives what. Take for instant the carpool lane, how many people do you see using it besides buses etc? Its usually very empty, and if that implies that the millions of drivers on the road are without passengers well there is your problem.
Driving is much more for Americans than many others, it isn't just getting from point A to point B. Its independence, and clinging to that life-style is as much of the reason our supply for gas isn't going to down enough. Indeed, we consume more than any other nation on the earth and part of that is because we choose to drive even when we don't necessarily need to. Its our life-style ultimately that is killing us on energy prices, we refuse to yield even as the world wants to use gas as American as we do. Which brings us back to the SUV, which we make into a scapegoat because we'd rather not face that truth until we need to.
So the real key to getting foreign oil off our back is driving smarter, and driving less often. Two things that involve major change when it comes to our way of life. Of course car manufactures also have to be smart too, making more energy efficient cars so they can keep afloat. Now, I'm not saying its going to solve our problems completely but its the only thing that will really work in the short-term. Alternative fuels, lets face it, on a massive scale simply wont work just yet. Gas is simply the better fuel when it comes to the massive scale we're talking about that is the population of the United States.
Okay, now that we've got that out of the way. Back to the SUV, and its myths!
1: SUV's are safer, so we have to drive it! FALSE: That is total BS.
2: SUV's are the only vehicle to fit say two adults and four children. FALSE: My family is a total of six, and we've never owned an SUV in our lives. What did we have to get us all around when we were young? A Vista Cruiser, third generation. So spare me the BS that you don't have choices.
Anyway, I was annoyed, so here is this post. There will always be a choices, the smarter we make them as a nation the sooner we face this problem correctly. It'll take giving up much, but gaining much at the same time. If we're willing anyway. Think of it this way, we're better together than apart and as a nation we only seem to be more and more divided.
Gas has now averaged out to be four dollars nation wide, in Jacksonville you can still find some stations with gas at 3.89 but that's about as cheap as you get. Hah! Kinda funny, thinking of three dollar gas as cheap! Anyway, I'm not a driver so why exactly am I complaining? I complain on behalf of all the morons who crucify SUV drivers and all the morons who stick to the old false idea's about the SUV and the excuses their drivers throw out.
First, let me state that it's bull that non-SUV drivers are using SUV drivers as a sort of scapegoat. Not really surprising, but BS none-the-less. When there is clearly a much bigger problem than who drives what. Take for instant the carpool lane, how many people do you see using it besides buses etc? Its usually very empty, and if that implies that the millions of drivers on the road are without passengers well there is your problem.
Driving is much more for Americans than many others, it isn't just getting from point A to point B. Its independence, and clinging to that life-style is as much of the reason our supply for gas isn't going to down enough. Indeed, we consume more than any other nation on the earth and part of that is because we choose to drive even when we don't necessarily need to. Its our life-style ultimately that is killing us on energy prices, we refuse to yield even as the world wants to use gas as American as we do. Which brings us back to the SUV, which we make into a scapegoat because we'd rather not face that truth until we need to.
So the real key to getting foreign oil off our back is driving smarter, and driving less often. Two things that involve major change when it comes to our way of life. Of course car manufactures also have to be smart too, making more energy efficient cars so they can keep afloat. Now, I'm not saying its going to solve our problems completely but its the only thing that will really work in the short-term. Alternative fuels, lets face it, on a massive scale simply wont work just yet. Gas is simply the better fuel when it comes to the massive scale we're talking about that is the population of the United States.
Okay, now that we've got that out of the way. Back to the SUV, and its myths!
1: SUV's are safer, so we have to drive it! FALSE: That is total BS.
2: SUV's are the only vehicle to fit say two adults and four children. FALSE: My family is a total of six, and we've never owned an SUV in our lives. What did we have to get us all around when we were young? A Vista Cruiser, third generation. So spare me the BS that you don't have choices.
Anyway, I was annoyed, so here is this post. There will always be a choices, the smarter we make them as a nation the sooner we face this problem correctly. It'll take giving up much, but gaining much at the same time. If we're willing anyway. Think of it this way, we're better together than apart and as a nation we only seem to be more and more divided.
