On Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:00 PM [PDT], Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before you criticize the automobile industry for cutting medical > benefits, consider that > they have so much compassion for ordinary people that they're > offering $500 gas cards to > the people who need help in buying trucks were SUVs. > > Besides, by contributing to global warming poor people will need to > spend less money on > heating fuel. The last 3 places I've rented had natural gas heating and we never turned it on... The General consensus is sweatshirts are a much cheaper source of home heating. The "middling class" has a lot of learning to do on their spiral in to "working poor, but don't acknowledge it". Adbusters ran a piece of graffitti as image a while back, it said: "I'd rather our boys die in the desert than I should turn down my thermostat & drive less." Cold(sic) but true underpinnings of the average American's subconscious thought process in regard to energy issues. Leigh www.leighm.net Have you seen my newsfeeds?: http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/ Got RSS?: http://www.furl.net/members/leighm/rss.xml
