So i heard these guys talking at lunch today...and this is kinda how the conversation went.... *as a background...theres a place up here that you can donate things to (like appliances* who then give them to needy families who do not have the means to purchase them* Guy1: So I got my new Ultra energy efficient fridge today Guy2: Oh thats great! Guy1: Yeah it uses less than half the energy that my current one uses Guy2: Well thats certainly an improvement, those other ones were real energy hogs Guy1: Yeah i agree, this one cost a little more but i think its worth it. Guy2: So what are you going to do with the old one? Keep it as a spare? Throw it out? Donate it? Guy1: Well i wont keep it because its such an energy hog, and i was thinking about donating it but i didnt want someone else to use a non energy efficient refrigerator so i think im going to just throw it out. Guy2: Yeah that would be best... I WAS READY TO SMACK THEM :mad2:....god i cant take it....IM STARTING AN ANTI GREEN MOVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha
I just have to applaud all the companies who are making piles of money off the green movement. The light bulb guys, the new energy efficient appliances and automobiles, lots of people making money off of the whole green guilt complex. :thongue2:
OMFG! Steve, I need to SMACK you for not SMACKING those clowns. lol I can't believe the thought process of some people. Yea, I don't want the needy to have it cause it uses more energy than my new one. What he really meant was, "I would rather people NOT have food in their home than give them a perfectly GOOD refigerator cause I am a Tree HUGGING, believe everything Gore tells me, save the silvery minnows (New Mexico thing), don't support our troops, nondriving, rude, pain in the ass, not understanding how technology works FUCK!" Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
i lulz at some of the green movement stuff. i read an article yesterday about new "green" hdd's. you know those new solid state ones that they want $300 for a 250gb drive? lol. one of the selling points is that they use less energy, so you save money. reality is that they actually use more energy because in order for them to function properly they need to power up completly, work, then power down. the energy that it takes doing that ends up as more than if the drive were to be consitantly on. kind of like the whole turning off the heat thing in the winter with those thermostats. you think you're saving money but you're not.
A lot of it is just the "jump on the latest trend" bandwagon. Then there are the frauds. Then there are the brilliant schemes like the Sierra Club where a few are making amazing amounts of money with the armies of deluded groupies. I'm still trying to figure out how it's now "OK" to drill offshore because the price of oil went up... All the other polution is a drop in the bucket compared to nuclear vs. coal/oil power plants. Not to mention cost.
damn hippies!!! :gtfoslap: & if the word "green" isn't marketed in every product sold in the US, it will be w/in a few yrs. This is the real green that should smack those wussies:
Holy crap! I can see it coming next feb when all these old TVs start piling up in the landfill cuz nobody wants to figure out how to plug in their digital decoder. Where's the green brigade??
