<x-charset ISO-8859-1>Many thanks for the responses, it is good to know there are others who see through the marketing campaigns.
I have no beef with capitalism. My rant was meant to point out our co-dependant tendency to look outward for someone to blame rather than encouraging individuals to accept responsibility for their actions. For example, if the cost and responsibility of recycling the materials were included in the sales price of new vehicles, folks might not be in such a hurry to rush out and buy the latest model every year. Indeed, manufacturers that made long lasting quality products, that could be repaired rather than discarded, would emerge on top of those selling shoddy cheap goods that break soon after the warranty expires and are unrepairable due to design and materials used. That said, Keith made an important point that is all-to-often missing from my rants; that is one of tolerence and acceptance of others points of view, with a gentle, but persistant presentation of logical arguments to persuade, rather than badger, others to a new perspective on things. In other words, I need to lighten up! It is my opinion that if one is waiting for Ford, or any other big corporation, to lead the way environmentally, one will be sorely dissappointed. Like drunks blaming the world for their troubles, whilst tipping the bottle one-more-time, so-called environmentalists fly around in jet airplanes and drive SUV's while scolding the capitalist for supplying his demand. It's crazy man! Capitalists exist only because their is a demand for their product. Reduce demand, the capitalist will find another product to profit from. I don't often disagree with Keith, but on this one point we do have slightly differing points of view, namely that it will not do much good to have Blue Water Network, NRDC and all the others bugging Ford and their kind becuase I have witnessed them joining sides with the polluters. At that point they become more of a liability than an asset due to the false impression they give, letting an apathetic public "off the hook" for our part in the ugliness, by simply selling us a subscription to their magazine or providing a place we can send $25 to ease our conscience. I would rather see these organizations focus their resources on fully educating my brethren, and on forcing the politicians to quit granting favors that let these criminals off the hook. But then I am an idealist, and a dreamer. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ </x-charset>
