When I was a kid (dob 1959) there was this thing called conservation of natural resources that was the hot topic of that era. We shut off lights when leaving a room, conserved H2O, reused plastic containers, made good use of the Paper shopping bags that were brought home from the market. For example Text book covers – no they didn’t have a pop diva on the front but they didn’t cost $5.00 each either. Plant a tree efforts to replace those lost during building phases. No the technology wasn’t as sophisticated as it is today the principles are the same.

It seems to me all the “Go Green”, “Sustainability” “Go Solar” stuff is just marketing jargon so people can make money from what is simple common sense and effete elites, of the Stephen Fowler variety, can continue to feel superior for using their expensive vocabulary to “elevate” the discussion and sell the lesser people on the idea of biofuels that have been proven, so far, to be more expensive, less efficient and in some cases dirtier to run, than the currently available fuels.

I suspect most ‘average’ people will reuse and recycle and conserve resources more so than those who have the blackberries and cell phones and laptops and alarm systems and Game systems etc … all of which use more electricity than those poor uneducated po’dunk town communities. Let’s not even include the city waste of electronic surveillance and traffic cams and the taxpayer paid for gas guzzliers the ‘city officials’ drive

Hey someone ought to do a study .. I bet there’s some stimulus money to be had there.

And before you elitists tell me I have no clue: I have dual bachelor degrees (English and Physics) and a MSM in Information Technology Security. I’m smart but proudly not an intellectual elite.