On 4/17/2012 5:11 PM, Mr. Austerity wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
Duesenberg wrote:
However I was thinking more in line with the wide availability of
large SUVS, luxury V8 automobiles with 400 HP, and households that
buy a flat panel tv every 3 years, disposing of the old one.

Was also thinking of pollution and water cleanup costs, air quality,
people's health etc.

There is a price for cheap energy that can't be measured on a monthly
bill.

Interestingly, those countries that have an abundance of large SUVs,
V8 automobiles, 3-year replacements on their flat-panel tvs, and eat a
lot of TV dinners, are immeasurably "cleaner," with healthier people,
than those countries that have no large SUVs, V8 automobiles, or
flat-panel TVs.


It's the vitamins in the TV dinners. I haven't had scurvy in years.

But people coming here from other countries have been kind enough to
bring us bedbugs and diseases. ^_^

TDD