I have a GREEN friend who lives in Summit and has a lot of land. During the summer he uses more gas for his lawn mower in a week than I do driving to work. He thinks he’s more of an environmentalist than me because he cares and is ‘voting for change’. I am waiting for a Dahlkemper sticker any day now on his 14 MPG pick up truck.

I always thought actions spoke louder than words.

I have two kids. So I get 5 hours less a week with them thanks to this so called non-sacrifice.

This is the United States of America, a ‘free’ country but you are trying to make me feel guilty because I want to spend time with my kids and don’t want to sweat/or freeze on my way to work.

I am sure you are all ‘pro choice’ so let me choose to drive my car with gas I pay for with the time that I save. And you if you want to walk or ride to work good for you. I CHOOSE not to.

Today.
Before that? Yesterday.
Before that? The day before yesterday.
And on and on and on.

I rarely drive to work anymore…and I have a few friends who routinely walk or ride their bikes to work and to run errands. And I encounter quite a few other people (more in the past six months than ever before) who are also riding their bikes or walking to work.

http://www.erieblogs.com/archives/2008/09/open_thread_for_15.php

If you work 7/10ths of a mile from work and think walking on occasion is not viable then you are an illustration of what is wrong with America. It should take you AT MOST 20 minutes to walk a mile at a very easy pace, you could probably shave it to 15 minutes by walking fast. That doesn’t sound too cruel and unusual, that doesn’t sound like too much to ask of people.

New drilling off of our coasts would not truly impact your day to day for several years. You know how long it takes to build that kind of infrastructure? You wouldn’t be seeing a drop of gas refined from these new wells for many, many months/years.

Repealing the gas tax is another blunder of an idea. We NEED that money to work on our infrastructure, pay for road salt, and all other tasks that ensure that we Americans CAN drive that 7/10ths of a mile to work on a decent road.

Seriously, when was the last time you walked or road a bike to work? I work 7/10ths of a mile from my house and have walked 4 times in the last 5 years because the car was in the shop. This is not a viable solution. DRILL HERE DRILL NOW

The sled dogs reminded me of the ad about Sarah Palin supporting the barbarous and cruel practice of hunting wolves (and bears) from helicopters. So, given how similar sled dogs can look to wolves, this could be really dangerous, I suppose.