Yeah, the U.S. doesn't get much oil from the middle east (though most other countries do), so technically all this 'Go Earth!' stuff is just crap.
But the government is willing to have those stupid commercials about how "If you do drugs you're a terrorist!," which are absolute bull****.
Yet they don't make any commercials condemning gasoline in the same way, which I think has a same or closer link to terrorism.
Why? Because our government is paid by oil companies. Just like illegal drug associations pay our government to say drugs are bad, so it keeps it underground and the prices high so the drug sellers keep raking in the money.
Three things I think our government should do:
Number One:
Well, that's just personal...
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Number One: Make weed legal, make laws on them similar to alcohol (only 21 or over, no weed while driving), and then put a huge tax on weed like they do for tobacco.
Why?
Price of weed drops way down because the supply is much larger while the government still makes a huge sum of cash on taxes. And eventually most of the people who want it would be growing it in their backyard. Not to mention there are many uses of weed besides smoking that could be very beneficial to the Earth, such as making paper out of it.
Number Two: Make hard drugs legal for medical purposes. Maybe they should be made just as legal as I think weed should be, but I think they're too dangerous for that.
Why?
A lot of the hard drugs have a
lot of potential for helping suffering people in hospitals, but since they are completely illegal absolutely no research can be conducted to explore their potential.
Number Three: Tax the **** out of gasoline just like the government taxes tobacco and how they should tax weed. FORCE Americans to buy more efficient cars, or better yet, those new cars coming out within the next five-ten years that use fuel cells and have the engines in the wheels.
Why?
Obvious reasons. Helps the Earth
and doesn't help terrrorists, and eventually we're going to have to switch away from oil anyhow.
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I think those first two things could be very likely, while the third is very unlikely.
First there's a certain strategy to sucking away all of the oil in the Middle East until they have nothing else and therefore will literally and figuratively be left in the dust in economy.
Middle East --->
<--- World
Also our American economy is heavily influenced by oil, so if oil is no longer in demand then it's likely our economy turns to ****. And then the American people wouldn't be happy about it unless the government explicitly said it was to hurt the Middle East or something.
BTW, I thought criticizing SUV's was in vogue since forever? I loved back when gasoline prices were rising a couple years ago, all these dumbass SUV drivers complained about the price of gasoline while they drove $40,000 small tanks (Expeditions) while drinking bottled water that costs TEN times as much per gallon as does gas.