Apparently my rant the other day wasn't so far off base...
From here...Producing new cars takes a lot of energy, too. Manufacturing a new Toyota Prius, to take one example dear to the hearts of Obama-voting conspicuous green consumers from Seattle to Madison, uses the equivalent of burning about 1,000 gallons of gasoline...
Another good article here...
More obvious, and more galling, is the economic stupidity. If we could stimulate the economy by destroying consumer goods and replacing them with more expensive greenwashed alternatives, then we should all go burn down our houses and have Washington subsidize new ones with solar panels on the roofs and maybe little wind turbines out back. But neither an individual, nor a family, nor a nation is able to build wealth through the wanton destruction of assets
And, the following videos, not for the squeamish...
A whole bunch more here...
OOOhhhhh, the humanity!!!
If only that had been on purpose... could have stimulated the Zeppelin industry!
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