Goddammit. I had this nice rant about people calling for "debate" when what they actually mean is "I'm too inconvenienced by high gas prices, I need the government to subsidize something".
But nooooooooooooooooooooooo. This idiot browser decided to crash, and took everything with it, including my source material pages and everything else. So. Here's the short version:
If you are concerned about high gas prices spiraling out of control, worried that tomorrow the last drop of oil will be pumped from the ground and then spilled on a baby seal, distraught that when all this happens all the lights will go out and the beer will get warm in the fridge:
Why aren't you out doing something about it? I don't mean get out with a stupid sign and protesting in front of Exxon, and I sure don't mean getting physically ignorant by blowing some refinery up. No...why haven't you prepared yourself for the (oh so OBVIOUS) coming global meltdown?
Why haven't you stopped using the computer? The thing draws umpteen watts, about as much as a small microwave oven. MICROWAVE OVEN! ISN'T THAT DANGEROUS? Why haven't you run out and purchased a rickshaw? Imagine a major urban center where ther eis no gasoline...executives will want to be able to go to the club for a quick power lunch, but not want to walk, so you could hire yourself out to cart 'em around at a premium. You could also buy a horse and carriage, since it will be cheaper to maintain that than buy SAE30 for your car...
There are all sorts of things you could do for the COMING GLOBAL CATASTROPHE, but I guess posting the need for debate on some random web page will have to do for now, can't be bothered to actually DO anything...
(At least, I think the post went something like that. Visit «A HREF="http://www.steveverdon.com/archives/001473.html"»Steve«/A» for where my original inspiration came from.)