If you complain about the obscene profits reaped by the greedy fossil fuel companies, why don’t you likewise complain about the obscene profits other companies make? Consider this: even at its current high price, gasoline doesn’t cost as much as bottled water! We stupid Americans spend BILLIONS of dollars every year buying tap water in little plastic bottles. Compare the cost of finding, extracting, transporting, refining, & distributing gasoline with the cost of filling little plastic bottles with tap water! The profit margin on bottled water is criminal! (Those greedy water barons are laughing all the way to the bank!) Please, let’s at least be judicious with our contempt of greedy profiteers… |||| ---- ---- Before you ridicule this comparison, consider the massive amount of damage the water industry does to our fragile planet: Billions of little plastic bottles leach in our landfills forever… Massive amounts of nasty pollutants result from manufacturing the little plastic bottles… Massive amount of nasty carbon emissions come from the thousands of delivery vehicles that are daily dedicated to transporting and delivering this expensive product. We complain about relying on imported oil, and then contribute to the profit of greedy water barons in Fiji and Europe!

What did George Washington’s banner say that contributed to the British’s defeat? Exactly what was on Abraham Lincoln’s banner that brought an end to slavery? What should be on the banner that prevents the next terrorist attack on American soil? ----- ----- Equating patriotism with hanging banners from Mt. Rushmore, or from a bridge in Mexico is not only irrational… it cheapens the honor of REAL patriots. ----- ----- It’s sad that Greenpeace has nothing more than news stunts to justify the millions of dollars they siphon from you. ----- ----- (Do you really think that chiding Obama on a Rushmore banner will cause him to conform?)

So, what have I learned about the mindset of the average visitor to the Greenpeace web world? Here are my personal thoughts and opinions: Most of you are sincerely concerned about our environment and want to participate in improving it. Many of you are guided more by emotion than reason, and can be blinded by that emotion, some to the point of denying reality. Some of you are ardent left-wing ideologues who wholeheartedly believe that the most effective way to save the planet is to stage outlandish events and publish sensational videos. There are some who are mindless alarmists; others of you are just good old fashioned dreamers. Me? I like to think I’m pragmatic. Sustainability is good on its own merit… no agenda required. What about you?