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Old 03-29-2008, 07:54 PM  
bhutocracy
Not making A Comeback
 
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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo View Post
That's the whole problem I have. If someone mentions that they'd love to buy an electric car or use solar panels on their house, they're called a hippie, treehugging, freak. The oil companies, lobbyists, and paid off Congressmen have turned "being green" into an insult. Kind of like how "progress" is now deemed an insult in politics.
It's fucked but I think thats quite an easy one to turn around though.. In a society as individualistic, enterprising and anti-getting scewed as the US, It wouldn't take much for an electric car and solar panels to been seen as fucking the oil companies, fighting the terrorists and being your own electricity company in one shebang.. seriously.. It would take a couple of months of propaganda in that direction and It would be unpatriotic not to have solar cells and give your money to the dirty arabs.
And frankly.. with the cost of electric cars and solar panels, no tree hugging hippy freak could get half way close to thinking of owning them.
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