700, 000 new vehicles have been produced to greenwash the oil industry and kick start the US (Japanese) economy, while keeping a very small portion of the population employed and thus entirely preoccupied and subdued.
"Truthout" has published an article documenting this great success of stripping raw materials from the earth to manufacture 3/4 of a million vehicles that are not built to last, and simply disposing (wasting) 3/4 million vehicles that ran perfectly well, and likely would have for years to come. They see it as a success to have transitioned people onto vehicles that still depend on the clandestine petro-complex (just not as much) and the oppressive capitalist system, while inadvertantly prologing the oil wars for generations to come.
Additionally most of the cars replaced were American trucks for Japanese cars!!! Hey, I am no nationalist, but its pretty clear that this will not help the American economy, considering the government subsidized the whole affair to boot...
The environmental footprint owed to manufacturing a new (fuel efficient) vehicle dwarf that potentially saved by cutting carbon emissions 40%. They want you to think Carbon is all that matters, what about the forests that use it!!! The raw materials!!! Jesus flippin christ. We are fucked.
Energy It Takes To Build Prius
113,000 BTUs
113,000 BTUs In Gasoline
1,000 gallons
Distance Driven to Break Even For Build Cost
46,000 miles
Time Needed For Average Driver to Hit 46,000 Miles
Over 3 Years
Distance Driven to Break Even with 1998 Toyota Tercel*
100,000 miles
Time Needed For Average Driver to Hit 100,000 Miles
Over 7 Years
Amount of resources required to make a new car (remember its not only about carbon folks)
Time for a car to breakdown before materialistic individual feels the need to buy another to look good to others??
Probably about 10 years (thats a conservative estimate! The prius expected lifetime is 12 years with high repair costs)
That said I think truthout is BS, always have, they are about as radical as democracy now. Its all a show, they aint saying the truth about nizzle. They have a catchy name though dont they? One that sounds real moral no doubt, that surely should be enough for anyone to blindly listen to what they say!
All these websites like anti-war.com, the realnews, infowhores, wearechange, democracy now etc, not even touching on the more looney tune sites like Rense and conspiracy planet etc. Are all there to create the illusion you have someone speaking on your behalf. YOU DONT. Anything popular on a medium of communication which was pioneered by DARPA is complete and utter BS.
Get real, or get mindjacked. Better yet believe anything Maya Schenwar (truthout), Amy Goodman, Keith Olberman, Howard Zinn, Paul Jay (real news), Naomi Klien, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Jason Bermas, Janice Matthews (911 truth), Alex Jones ("genesis" communications network), Kevin Kaplan (NAACP), Leslie Cagan (united for peace) etc. etc. etc. says you should.
LOL!
http://www.truthout.org/topstories/1110MSL01
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