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Originally Posted by Fourtyrulz
I don't see how it's impossible to have a petrochemical lifestyle (whatever that really means) without petrochemicals. Car companies are proving us wrong everyday by releasing new hybrid vehicles designed with more fuel efficient parts.
This is hardly the only alternative to a fossil-fuel-free lifestyle. Sure petroleum products like plastics are irreplacable and have lead to amazing progress, but scientific advances in automobile technology leave us with no excuse for why we haven't also advanced as a consumer society.
Police use gun buybacks as an incentive for people to turn in their weapons and get guns off of the streets. If state governments could somehow work with car companies to sponsor car buybacks and trade-ins for people with older, inefficient models we would no doubt see a rise in the use of new hybrid technology. Right now over 10 states already give incentives for hybrid/fuel efficient car drivers: parking fee exemptions, tax deductions, rebates, credits, freeway lane usage, and exemption from emissions checks. If these incentives could be extended to more states with a larger number of incentives we would not be so dependent on petrochemicals.
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Gun buybacks? You're using GUN BUYBACKS as proof of your suggestion??? ROTFLMAO!!!
Gun buybacks are PR stunts, nothing more. Have you noticed how rarely they happen nowadays? There's a reason why. It's because gun buybacks do nothing to disarm criminals. I recall one up in Maryland (Baltimore, IIRC), where a guy ended up turning in something like 68 guns himself that he had just bought. He did it because he was able to turn a healthy profit on it.
Gun buybacks are a complete and total joke that do absolutely nothing to take guns away from criminals. I wish they happened more often, because I could use the cash.
We're working to cut back on fossil fuel use. But nobody, and I mean NOBODY, thinks that we can "get away" from using fossil fuels entirely. And even the hybrids do use a lot of fossil fuels in the manufacturing process, et cetera.
The vehicle inspection system is already designed to render older cars too cost-inefficient to remain in service. And Americans LIKE driving big vehicles. You don't have the right to tell them that they can't, either.