Why do Americans insist on killing the planet?
Apart from anything else, American cars are all sh*t anyway - I know that Petrol is cheap in the USA, but God, it's not that cheap.I'd rather walk!!
I am constantly staggered by the waste and excess in that country - Yet, none of the Politicians want to tackle it in case it makes them unpopular.
About time someone did something about it - for everyone's sake.
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That is their nature.
Blah, Blah, Blah, Americans aren't the only ones killing the planet, when hot air like this is being spewed into the atmosphere.
Nope, as Americans, we take pride in the fact that we are rich enough to waste gas in our SUVs. Who cares how expensive it is? We'll just complain until they are forced to take the prices down, or we elect someone else who does. I eat half of my triple whoppers while driving down the highway and throw the rest out the window. I drive too fast, and too far, for the sole purpose of running my AC constantly and listening to Pearl Jam. When we have bon fires we dump gasoline all over the wood just to get it started. Quit complaining. What communist satelite state are you from anyway
Gas prices have recently dropped here quite a bit. Around the equivelant of 75p per gallon in the past month. Around here it's near 1.5 pounds/gallon . So i don't see it killing the SUV market soon.
But thankfully there is a growing trend of smaller cars that are better built and nicely designed. Economy cars around here have a reputation of being tiny, cramped, and trashy. With the newer cars like the mini and the new Nissan Versa, there might be a new trend coming.
Shut up, you tree-hugger.
Sadly they just do not know any better & will not realise until it is far too late; It's like their humour, it has to be pie in the face stuff(obvious)
The problem with yanks is that they think the good old US of A is the world, therefore they own it and can subsequently do what the hell they like.
why not they kill every thing else
Don't worry - no-one's going to kill the planet. The Earth will survive until the sun burns out. The only thing they are killing is humanity. Then it will be replaced by other species, who may or may not go on to do just the same over millions of years.
gas is not cheap in America, and other people destroy the planet much worse, so go and pick on them and leave us alone. Our country helps everybody in this world even our enemies, so go and learn an few things before you start accusing
chill
it's called freedom.
Not everyone does it, and many people need it.
As someone who is tall I can tell you I can't fit into a little small death trap box car.
And before you go crackin' on what you perceive as waste, maybe you should consider that even more than that goes to aid other countries. probably even yours.
not just them.but i agree that they have done big **** since the 2ND world war.the latest one was that they have let 4 aeroplanes go out of their air-traffic space thing that i thought that the millions of dollars invested on the security of the USA were a bit better .and let them complete their targets in a curiuous way ?¿
so that afghanistan and irak.saddam?
no oil he doesnt give a **** about saddam.
Oh sure.it's the Americans killing the planet. Sometime break out of your "hate Bush" mantra and look at the air pollution controls in place in American industry compared to China, India and other industrial areas who are still burning coal and dung! Not to mention volcanoes, forest fires and other nature produced pollution.
Europe has some nice small diesels that are being adopted in the US as well as the Smart car but it has to be modified first to meet collision and air pollution standards first.
Get off your anti-American snootiness.it's really tiresome and ignorant.
Funny that you grouse about us now, after we saved your asses in WW2, along with our friends the Aussies. You have cars built for medeval roads.we have newer ones.your cars work for you.ours work for us.
because of giggy pokers like you who wanna blame me for all your own shortcomings if i work hard for my money i will spend it any way i want.it is mine you goof.if i want to give it to a christian charity you call it waste but if i give it to a muslim charity you graciously thank me. it bothers you that we drive big vehicles but then, you are always gonna look for reasons to further your hatred.you are also ok with iran making nuclear material for the (peaceful generation of electricity) hogwash, cause they can do it with their over supply of oil.YOU AREN'T HELPING THE PROBLEM.YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!
I suppose it's the quickest way of killing everything else - they just don't realise it'll do for them as well!
By the way - America - it isn't 'gas' cars burn - it's 'PETROL'!
Why do people always blame America first? The excess we have in this country has been paid for by American blood, American talent, American enginuity, American creativity and American ideals. Why are Euros so brainwashed by the left wing media?
Like you have room to talk. The British Empire, back in its full glory, wasted and polluted world wide, subjugated millions of people around the globe and enforced and iron-fist style of government wherever it's ships landed. Concidering that that Industrial revolution was spawned in the British Isles, I dare say that per capita, Great Britain has wasted a fair amount itself, not only in raw materials and resources, but in human lives too.
SO SOD OFF!
it is sad, but ignorance of global warming is apparently even greater in the US than it is here, and they produce a massive portion of the global carbon output compared with their population. Fortunately alarm bells are starting to ring in the US amidst the onslaught of hurricanes and tornadoes. They'll wake up properly after a few more Katrina's, lets just hope its not too late by then.
MANY Americans drive regular cars. Most of my friends drive Hondas/Toyotas. I agree most American cars are crap. And a lot of people couldn't give a **** about the waste of it all. However, China is about to surpass the US on gasoline. It also uses more coal and has much higher emissions when it comes to coal fired power plants and such.
The reason people here haven't changed is that the gov't is too scared to do anything about it for fear of offending people and losing votes. Bush blows, and he obviously wouldn't do anything to help the situation, he's from Texas. A lot of people over here would like things to change. Since we can't really do it with the cars we are doing it in other ways. Recycling, creating nature preserves, more parks in city areas, carpooling, taking mass transit when possible(it is not nearly as available over here as it is in other places).
i quite agree when i hear that Americans believe the Earth is the USA. but i disagree when you say politics don't care. look at the last movie on environment "an inconvenient truth", where the main character is the ex-vice president of the USA.
we're all doing our part in ruining the planet, not just the Americans. The Irish signed the Kyoto Protocol but continue to be one of the biggest contributers to pollution in Europe. The vast majority of England is affected by some sort of severe pollution. England have Sellafield. Need I say more?
its really an economic question.they have a good economy and fuel sells cheaper, in part from political alliances with countries like Saudia Arabia.politically leaders want to see the economy grow so they lack the will for legislation and measures which pollute less but will be more expensive for industries, potentially slow the economy, make goods expensive and lose support from voters
Wow.. Some touchy people on here today.
I think its because they all have small penises.
Petrol/electric cars like the Prius are fine in traffic as the engine runs efficiently to charge the battery and then the electric motor produces enough go for traffic. But they are very expensive to buy and maintain once the batteries start to go and the weight of the batteries does not make them that efficient. If they are driven at motorway speeds they use as much fuel as a normal car.
RoyS
BECAUSE THE PLANET BELONGS TO US! HAHA
..no but seriously, I can't give you a reason.
North America has one of the most sustainable lifestyles in the world. Sustainability is the ratio of productive land per head of population, canada and the US are well to he fore on this, the UK has been plummeting down his index as has the EU in general.
China and Africa are among the worst offenders, China with uncontrolled expansion drawing in rescources from elsewhere, africa as the productivity of its land declines as the benefits of colonialisation ebb away. UK, EU, Bangla Desh, Pakistan and India need radical measures as implemented by China to achieve population reduction to match population to productive land, because every gallon of petrol grew in a field or swamp or jungle before being converted to oil by natural processes. When we have used the fossil fuels we will be back to growing fuel, and the US is in the vanguard here, so much so that grain supplies are stabilising to match demand and surpluses much reduced, pretty soon folk in africa will be starving because Africans are too stupid to grow enough grain and the US wont have any spare as they move to growing plants optimised for motor fuel production rather than plants optimised to be eaten.
Americans can readily slash fuel consumption, switching from Gasoline to diesel would halve their motor fuel requirements, and downsizing vehicles would further reduce this with minimal lifestyle implications. UK EU etc have minimal scope for fuel consumption reductions without lifestyle implications, and Bangla Desh, India, Pakistan have no scope for fuel consumption reductions without crippling consequences as their populations spiral out of control. So open your mind. A few Americans are not the problem.
The projected extra Millions of children in Africa and the Indian Sub Continent will be the problem when they grow up.
Oh please. Britain cut down almost all of its trees centuries ago, upsetting the ecological balance of the entire British Isles. Russia has nuclear waste sites that have never been cleaned up and nuclear submarines laying on their sides at pier with signs telling people not to come closer than 200 meters from risk of permanent radiological damage. The Danube is full of heavy metal toxins from unbridled dumping from eastern bloc industry during the Soviet era. The Japanese are fishing the seas to extinction. India's holy sacraments involving swimming in the Ganges are life-threatening affairs. You can't see across the streets in downtown Bejing for the air pollution, nor in Mexico City. Brazil is denuding its rain forest. Haiti has so destroyed its ecological system that its top soil washed away a century ago. States all over Africa are wiping out endangered species.
Meanwhile the United States has taken enormous strides in cleaning its air. Pittsburgh, once a center of air and water pollution is positively pristine these days. The U.S. leads the world in reducing auto emissions through technological innovation and was the first country in the world to set pollution standards for cars. We also have some of the world's most stringent rules for industrial dumping in waterways.
Yes, we have a great many cars, and we use a great deal of oil, but we have considerable distances to cover compared to a Belgium, a France, a Germany or a United Kingdom. We also value our personal liberty highly, and are not the sort of socialist sheep that are willing to be herded onto public transportation even if we had the extensive networks possible in smaller countries.
Be staggered as you may by our waste and excess. It is that excess that allows the United States the latitude to come a'running when Hitler invades, when the Iron Curtain divides Europe, when China is unwillingly included in Japan's Southeast Asian Co-prosperity Sphere, when Saddam Hussein gasses his own people in a systematic ethic cleansing of the Kurds, and so on and so on. And do we come take your land? No, we pay, we bleed, we rebuild your sorry selves, and we take the criticism that all lesser states always heap upon the greater ones in history.
We are not perfect--far from it. But wherever you are from, chances are at one time or another, and maybe several times, the United States has come to your country's aid, and you are an ungrateful wretch, as quick to forget as you are to criticize.
In America we have blue sky's, clean air.
In Asia and India they have a brown cloud for sky.
What waste would that be? We drive the same cars everyone else does with the same mileage that everyone else gets. We recycle, our rivers are clean, Our National parks and preserves are larger than many Nations.
Excess? Yes our system does provide. Our poor live better than anywhere else in the world. No one has starved to death in this country in over 150 years. Under Communism about 40 million have starved. In North Korea about half a million a year. In Africa about 2 million. America gives away to the poor nations of the world more food than Europe produces. America has brought freedom to people all over the world. In fact nearly 1 billion have been given freedom from dictators, Communism, Religious fanatics, Fascist over the last 65 years by America`s excess. I think we use our excess quite well.
Our Enemies hate us for that and yes tell you through their propaganda what evil wasteful people we are. Our enemies that dictate the size of stones to be used to kill a woman for some perceived sexual sin.
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I am assuming you are in the UK. During my vacations in the UK, I noticed that some Brits also drive large SUVs and full-size pickup trucks. Americans, like anyone anywhere, drive large vehicles because they can. When necessity dictates otherwise, everyone everywhere will adapt.
Gasoline (the commodity itself) actually is not cheaper in the US than in the UK. It seems that way because the UK has motor fuel taxes many times higher than in the US to help pay for its generous social programs.
Senseless bashing of Americans, or any other national group, always displays ignorance and a person's frustration with his or her own life. I would recommend that you look to improving your personal outlook before embarking on improving the rest of the world.
The UK has a long and distinguished history and remains a world power. I have thoroughly enjoyed my trips to your island, even if gasoline is $6.00 a gallon.
because we can, and it pisses off the rest of the world
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