Polk Unofficial Energy Spendings "Brown/Red" Thread

TroyD

Outside today it was 114. Inside my hooch it was a comfy 67 degrees.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

BDT

carpenter

BaggedLancer wrote: »

The earth can bring it! I've been going to the gym, i can take on earth no problem!

The earth I can handle. it's the oil companies that scare the living crap out of me.
3.2$ a Gallon?:mad: I wouldn't be surprised if it'll get to 8-9 by the end of the decade.

candyliquor35m

Tandori chicken, butter chicken, peas palao, nan bread.

oops wrong thread.

Face

What happened, the tin foil hat fell off?

candyliquor35m

A man's gotta eat.

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BaggedLancer

Face wrote: »

What happened, the tin foil hat fell off?

Someone stabbed it.

candyliquor35m

Reported

BaggedLancer

Are you serious? haha......can't help but laugh a bit on that one but obviously you can't take a joke since it stemmed from your response in the other thread....

candyliquor35m

I was joking because I felt you were joking. I guess the emoticons or whatever they're called are good for something afterall.

Face

On warm days I love driving my Excursion with the windows down and the A/C on full blast.
I floor it between every red light also.

candyliquor35m

I'm shocked I haven't been rear ended yet when I'm doing 10-20 mph coasting to the red lights.

hearingimpared

I run through red lights and stop at green lights!!!

bobman1235

Here's waht I posted in the other thread (or close to it) :

There's a writer for ESPN (Gregg Easterbrook, or TMQ) who likes to point out environmental hypocrisy. I found these two posts particularly interesting :

In July, numerous pop musicians and celebrities flew in private jets, then rode limos to the Live Earth concerts, where they demanded that others conserve. Some 150 acts performed at the event's various venues. Suppose half the acts flew commercial, half aboard private jets. Flying a private jet a transcontinental distance generates greenhouse gases equivalent to driving a Hummer for a year. So that's 75 Hummer Years of greenhouse gases caused by the Live Earth acts that arrived by private jet. (TMQ proposes that henceforth, environmental hypocrisy be measured in Hummer Years.)

If the other acts flew commercial, assuming the average act has five performers and crew and flies a medium distance, that would translate to about 550 tons of greenhouse gases, which is another 60 Hummer Years of global-warming emissions. Now factor in all the spectators and staff attending the various Live Earth concerts. John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com estimated that around 35,000 tons of greenhouse gases were caused by spectators and logistical support for Live Earth -- converted into HYs, that's about the same as driving a Hummer for 4,000 years. Four thousand years' worth of Hummer emissions for an event demanding conservation! And we're just talking about one day of screeching guitars and slurred lyrics, not about the many pop stars who live the private jet lifestyle the year long. As Marina Hyde of London's Guardian newspaper pointed out, Sting's wife recently charted a helicopter to fly her to an environmental meeting.

And then today he added this :

The NFL declared this year's Super Bowl was carbon-neutral, telling the Associated Press that the league financed the planting of 3,000 trees to offset carbon emissions directly associated with the game. Greenhouse gas accumulation is put into perspective by the unnerving fact that about 1,500 new trees are required to neutralize the carbon from just one typical American home. Because the direct greenhouse gases associated with the Super Bowl -- stadium lights, concession-stand power -- were over in one day, the 3,000 trees purchased offset the game's direct emissions. But greenhouse gases directly associated with stadium power are only a small part of the story. It turns out the big asterisk on the NFL's claim that the last Super Bowl was carbon-neutral is that the league does not count fossil fuels used getting to and from the contest. Lloyd Crosby of Calgary, Alberta points out this trace of corporate jets leaving the Miami area the morning after the Super Bowl. Each jet alone generated more greenhouse gases than could be offset by the NFL's 3,000 trees. Add in commercial flying -- not to mention all the cars, buses and trucks associated with the event -- and the NFL's carbon-mitigation effort likely neutralized less than 1 percent of the greenhouse gases associated with the Super Bowl.

Yay hypocrisy!

BottomFeeder

candyliquor35m wrote: »

Tandori chicken, butter chicken, peas palao, nan bread.

oops wrong thread.

Chicken Tikka Masala, saag lamb, chicken korma, chai...uhm!

hearingimpared

bobman1235 wrote: »

Here's waht I posted in the other thread (or close to it) :

There's a writer for ESPN (Gregg Easterbrook, or TMQ) who likes to point out environmental hypocrisy. I found these two posts particularly interesting :



And then today he added this :



Yay hypocrisy!

Excellent find Bobman!

Polkersince85

Let's see:

I have a small A/C window unit that has been on since Memorial day to remove the moisture from the air.

Recycled nothing

Own stock in some major comm companies, defense contractors, and oil companies.

Oh yea, almost forgot, my brothers and I clearcut our 250 acres of 45 year old pine trees.:p

ohskigod

I heard methane is much worse the CO2 as a greenhousegas. if this is true, I got all of you beat, for the **** gods often speak in angry tones.

jakelm

I change my oil in the ditch next to my raw sewage.

hearingimpared

jakelm wrote: »

I change my oil in the ditch next to my raw sewage.

Child's play . . . I pour my used up oil directly into the public water reservoir!!!:D Oh I forgot and try to mask it with a couple of gallons of Clorox!

jakelm

Sometimes I go outside and spray 2 cans of hairspray in the air just for the hell of it.

Catalytic converters?....you realize how much more HPower my Z-71 has without them?

hearingimpared

jakelm wrote: »

Sometimes I go outside and spray 2 cans of hairspray in the air just for the hell of it.

Catalytic converters?....you realize how much more HPower my Z-71 has without them?

Do you still use leaded gas? Also after the hairspray cans are empty you must throw them into a hot fire.

jakelm

hearingimpared wrote: »

Do you still use leaded gas? Also after the hairspray cans are empty you must throw them into a hot fire.

Lead gas, and I painted my whole house with lead.

hearingimpared

jakelm wrote: »

Lead gas, and I painted my whole house with lead.

Now you need to burn it so the lead gets into the atmosphere!:eek:

jakelm

We all originate from Mars anyway....look how beautiful that planet is now.





....I wanna go home

PhantomOG

I love those HUGE concerts for the "environment". Can you just imagine all the waste created? Not to mention all the private jets for the bands and Al Gore to show up and chant rah rah rah.

Isn't that like screaming for silence? Eff'n hilarious.

jakelm

Kill all mankind...MMMUUUUAAAAAAAAAAA

"Whatcha wanna do today Brain?"

"Same thing we do every day Pink, TAKE OVER THE WORLD...MMMUUUUAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA"