Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Get a life, loser. The biggest environmental problems facing us is shortage of parking lots for large SUV's and the fact that the gas pumps are so damn slow it takes all day to pump 30 gallons of OPEC into the tank. It is our right as Americans to drive a large V-8 with at least 300 HP, and it is our President's obligation to provide as much cheap gas as we need. That is what is meant by the expression "Defending the American way of life."
This is exactly the kind of mentality that is pissing off the rest of the world. Just because we live in a capitalistic society that condones free enterprise doesn't mean that there aren't repercussions from our economic actions that will affect the rest of the world.
If you want to drive an SUV that gets 15-20 miles to the gallon, that is obviously your choice as an American. However, to say that by every American choosing this choice has to ramifications on the environment or the rest of the world is a pretty erroneous assumption.
To put it bluntly, everyone's fart somehow affects the atmosphere and the environment. Obviously that is something that we, along with all animals, have been doing since the beginning of time. However, if we deserve the right to drive around gas guzzling SUVs, so does every other nation, including China.
What would happen if every Chinese person were to drive an SUV? Do you think our Earth could sustain itself?
The left may over-exaggerate a lot of claims about the environment going downhill because of man-made reasons, but just because they are exaggerating to begin with doesn't mean that there is no change occurring.
This whole, "I don't care about the rest of the world so long as I have a 300 HP engine in my SUV" mentality is eventually going to be the undoing of America if this shit continues.
I don't think the rest of the world is going to get too upset when it happens, since we're bringing it upon ourselves.
I get the impression a lot of people on the right want to gun their SUV's more and more just to piss off the left.