i cannot escape my science training. When faced with overwhelming facts i re-assess my perception and update my concept of how things are. i find i must now alter my belief that the people of Americans are idiots and have no genuine concern for the environment. My new finding is that people are idiots and have no genuine concern for the environment.
i just see Americans on a daily basis so my anecdotal observations were limited to my sample base. Upon looking with a larger world view it is indeed our species that is the problem. Americans just tends to be in a better financial position (although possibly not for long) to flaunt consumerism, but given the opportunity it seems to grab all bald monkeys.
i will take my beloved Prius as an example. i bought mine in late '03. Since then i have just sat back and watched.
Gas prices have been rising sharply and, of course, more and more people are looking at hybrids as a serious option. The Prius happens to be the best designed and best selling of those hybrids. Too many have gone from crying about gas prices to crying about waiting lists for hybrids. To all you crybabies: buy a fucking box of tissues, buy a fucking bus pass, and while riding the bus call your parents on your overpriced cell phone and ask them why they raised you to be such a whiny pussy. They were probably hippies who sold out their beliefs to earn more money.
The shortage is not due to the auto companies trying to raise the prices like some Cabbage Patch Kid scare. The problem is that people are idiots. Toyota's original first generation Prius was smaller and did not sell all too well. They completely re-designed it and a cult was formed. It sold better than they had predicted and with those of us who got them acting like strange fanatical evangelists the lust was contagious. It took Toyota some time but eventually they not only were able to get production to catch up with demand but even started to introduce incentives and lower prices on select packages.
Sales leveled out and at times even dropped. Suddenly gas prices start rising at a quickened rate and the easily excitable bi-peds migrated away from their metal dinosaurs and started to hunt for the smaller, quicker hybrids. A lot goes into car production, especially hybrids which have batteries to take into account. Production cannot shift gears that quickly. Auto assembly lines can in time be shifted around to produce more of a given line of vehicles but battery manufacturers also have to juggle around production to attempt to match auto line assembly. Throw into the mix that Toyota has strict sense of quality control. When upping production you must be extra careful that quality is not compromised.
Even more variables come into play. Toyota has been exploring both switching hybrids to lithium ion batteries (which are smaller and lighter for the same power) and plug-in hybrids. With rumors of a dramatically redesigned Prius coming out soon, maybe even as a plug-in model, the current model may soon be outdated. Why up production on a model that will soon be discontinued in it's current form?
This is not even getting into the real problem causing the shortage: car companies make what's selling. When Americans have been snubbing anything smaller than a mini-suv/cross-over vehicle our counter-parts across the Atlantic have been mocking hybrids because they do not use their beloved diesel (which gets better gas mileage but produces more pollution per gallon). Car companies are not philanthropic agencies looking to improve the human condition. They are for-profit producers/sellers. They'll make whatever you buy.
Conclusions get jumped to. Fingers get pointed. Yelling. Tears. Excuses. If our fur covered, poo flinging relatives could talk they'd call us all idiots. Then they'd ask for a banana. In the movie American History X they say to end strong with a quote because someone else has probably said it before, and better than you could. So i will conclude with a quote from the wise old Gwen: Shit's bananas.
Long live chimp-chimp.
Jun 17, 2008
Final Exam
No survey this week. After giving and correcting finals i do not want to have to review any more answers to any more questions i ask. So instead, after another year of teaching, i will vent my frustration of ignorance.
What the fuck people? What's it going to take? People in the US are petitioning to set up oil rigs anywhere and everywhere that there may be oil within our borders. One idiot even recommended building an off shore rig that would reach under the middle east to steal all their oil. This ass-fuck (yes school is out so i'm getting all my swearing out) has watched "There Will Be Blood" too many times and apparently gets a hard-on during the 'milkshake' scene.
Try to put up a wind turbine and people scream about ruining the aesthetics of our skyline (yes, i'm targeting all you bloated Kennedys). But recommend putting up an oil derrick anywhere and people cheer the possible savings at their local Mobil station.
People are choosing gas over food, medicine, and bill payments. Really? Driving your fat ass around in your fat ass car is that important? You'd rather sacrifice your health than contemplate carpooling or mass transit? Where the fuck are your priorities?
All over the world striking truck drivers are shutting down cities and leaving people without food and other necessities. Have none of these drivers (or at least transportation company owners) ever taken, let alone heard of, a business class? No, i'm not talking about a section on your airplane somewhere between first class and economy and i'm not talking about a group of people trying to destroy the working class. i'm talking about an actual education class with business as the subject of study.
Even little kids selling lemonade on the corner know business 101: charge more than your costs. If it costs 5... hey, what the fuck happened to the change symbol on keyboards? It used to be there. When did they take that away? When was the last time you it any of those F1-12 buttons but they keep that whole row on the keyboard. Why can't i have a cents symbol on the keyboard?
But i digress... if it costs $0.05 to make a glass of lemonade you better charge at least a dime. If the cost of fuel goes up then you should probably charge more to transport those materials. People should have to pay the actual cost of what it takes to get what we have become used to. For far too long we have been underpaying for many of the things we deem necessities in modern times. If stores want their merchandise they need to pay the shipping price, if people want to buy what's in the store they need to pay the new prices based on those new shipping costs. Take a cab, take a plane, you'll need to pay more.
So shut the fuck up and start paying $4 for gas. $5 for gas. $10 for gas. Oil is NOT a renewable resource. The more we use the less of it there is. Again, business 101, the less there is of something people want, the more you can charge for it. Just ask the kings of price control: De Beers.
So far i have also refrained from discussing the ramifications of all this delusional amped up oil drilling campaign. If we burn all the oil we currently have access to, human beings will not survive. And you want to slurp out more from our crust? Life on this planet will carry on in various forms but the human experiment WILL come to an end if we keep carrying on in this fashion. As i've said many times before, the great thing about the truth is that you do not have to believe it... it is true either way.
We are like the cancer patient smoking a cigarette through the surgical hole in their throat. Cheered on by the cancer patient in the bed next to them, NE-VER GIVE UP in that robotic pace of the electronic vocal cords they now must hold up to their throat to speak. We defiantly celebrate the use of that which is slowly killing us. We are addicts. Those who sell the objects of our desire (whether crack, cunts, or coffee) aways know that they can get however much they ask for it.
Every month new findings come out linking childhood development of allergies and asthma to air pollution. As parts of our country burn, other parts get washed away by floods, while ever more get blown apart by storms. You can pay the price at the pump or you can pay the price at home, but either way the collector will get what's owed him.
We can smarten up and take care of our debts, or we can keep panicking every time we hear the phone ring fearing that it may be the collection agency.
What the fuck people? What's it going to take? People in the US are petitioning to set up oil rigs anywhere and everywhere that there may be oil within our borders. One idiot even recommended building an off shore rig that would reach under the middle east to steal all their oil. This ass-fuck (yes school is out so i'm getting all my swearing out) has watched "There Will Be Blood" too many times and apparently gets a hard-on during the 'milkshake' scene.
Try to put up a wind turbine and people scream about ruining the aesthetics of our skyline (yes, i'm targeting all you bloated Kennedys). But recommend putting up an oil derrick anywhere and people cheer the possible savings at their local Mobil station.
People are choosing gas over food, medicine, and bill payments. Really? Driving your fat ass around in your fat ass car is that important? You'd rather sacrifice your health than contemplate carpooling or mass transit? Where the fuck are your priorities?
All over the world striking truck drivers are shutting down cities and leaving people without food and other necessities. Have none of these drivers (or at least transportation company owners) ever taken, let alone heard of, a business class? No, i'm not talking about a section on your airplane somewhere between first class and economy and i'm not talking about a group of people trying to destroy the working class. i'm talking about an actual education class with business as the subject of study.
Even little kids selling lemonade on the corner know business 101: charge more than your costs. If it costs 5... hey, what the fuck happened to the change symbol on keyboards? It used to be there. When did they take that away? When was the last time you it any of those F1-12 buttons but they keep that whole row on the keyboard. Why can't i have a cents symbol on the keyboard?
But i digress... if it costs $0.05 to make a glass of lemonade you better charge at least a dime. If the cost of fuel goes up then you should probably charge more to transport those materials. People should have to pay the actual cost of what it takes to get what we have become used to. For far too long we have been underpaying for many of the things we deem necessities in modern times. If stores want their merchandise they need to pay the shipping price, if people want to buy what's in the store they need to pay the new prices based on those new shipping costs. Take a cab, take a plane, you'll need to pay more.
So shut the fuck up and start paying $4 for gas. $5 for gas. $10 for gas. Oil is NOT a renewable resource. The more we use the less of it there is. Again, business 101, the less there is of something people want, the more you can charge for it. Just ask the kings of price control: De Beers.
So far i have also refrained from discussing the ramifications of all this delusional amped up oil drilling campaign. If we burn all the oil we currently have access to, human beings will not survive. And you want to slurp out more from our crust? Life on this planet will carry on in various forms but the human experiment WILL come to an end if we keep carrying on in this fashion. As i've said many times before, the great thing about the truth is that you do not have to believe it... it is true either way.
We are like the cancer patient smoking a cigarette through the surgical hole in their throat. Cheered on by the cancer patient in the bed next to them, NE-VER GIVE UP in that robotic pace of the electronic vocal cords they now must hold up to their throat to speak. We defiantly celebrate the use of that which is slowly killing us. We are addicts. Those who sell the objects of our desire (whether crack, cunts, or coffee) aways know that they can get however much they ask for it.
Every month new findings come out linking childhood development of allergies and asthma to air pollution. As parts of our country burn, other parts get washed away by floods, while ever more get blown apart by storms. You can pay the price at the pump or you can pay the price at home, but either way the collector will get what's owed him.
We can smarten up and take care of our debts, or we can keep panicking every time we hear the phone ring fearing that it may be the collection agency.
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