If you don’t think so, then sell your car, get rid of all your household items made of plastic; trash bags, bottles, containers for saving food, toys, furniture, and your make up. Most certainly making sure to petition hospitals and doctors to do the same and stop using all that senseless plastic, who needs it? Take all plastic items out of our schools. Have all of your techno tools and toys that are made of plastic, TVs, DVDs, CDs, computers, computer games, toss them out into the trash, (only metal trash cans, please) then only buy tech toys and tools made entirely out of metal or wood. The good news is we can return to clothing made only of cotton and leather… no need for anything made from synthetics like Polyester, dacron, rayon, or orlon. Did I forget to mention your local super store for groceries will most likely go out of business… no trucks doing deliveries… and that what you will be able to buy at your local mom and pop mercantile will cost twice maybe three times as much due to supply and demand. Oh and put off that trip to Hawaii because a horse and buggy just won’t get you there. Oh side note here, be thinking about buying stock in companies that manufacture sailboats, rowboats or bicycles.
Do you see a pattern here yet? We need oil. So let’s get over our Chicken Little’s, “The Sky is Falling” mentality and jump into can do “American Attitude”, of putting our best minds and volumes more money towards figuring out how to stop that inane BP oil leak in the Gulf. The sooner we figure that out, the safer we will be when it happens again… and it will happen again. I mean come on, people get in automobile accidents all the time, and no one stops driving their car. Then let’s bring that same American caring and generosity that we have seen to help Haiti, and have some concerts and events to raise money to help the people who’s lives have been turned upside down by this catastrophe. Funny has anyone seen even one “We Are the World” type aid event for the people in Louisiana to help them overcome the suffering caused by BP’s oil spill? We will for Haiti but not for our own, something is terribly wrong with that picture folks, another story for another day.
BP… fine the snot of them. Make them pay as much as they can without putting them out of business… that would be senseless, remember “We Need Oil”… hello! And then as an added bonus for the ineptness… refuse them any further licensing, new or renewals, on their wells until they can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they can contend with any calamity that comes their way. And once again in the truest of American spirit… let’s not sit around and wait for them to figure it out, let’s help them find that technology… put our very best minds, from MIT and the likes to work on the solution. Create awards, prize money and grants to those students private businesses who can solve this. Oh and while they are at it… maybe add some nice caveat prizes for finding something that fits within the “Green” scheme to replace petroleum. Think of the jobs that can be created from an the industry that will replace petroleum products. Want the world to beat a path to America’s door. For America to be looked up to in awe again… then let’s make sure America is the one that creates and produces, green gas and green plastic!
Let do this the American way… let’s stop whining and be “We Can Do!”
