Sales of Toyota Priuses are down 35%. Overall the sale of small cars is down 25%. Meanwhile the sales figures of trucks slowly begins to rise from the ashes. All of this correlates with a drop in gas prices.Americans have not learned a thing. Americans are not spurred by morality or ethics. Americans are spurred by one thing...their wallets.
We selfishly consume and consume as long as the price is right. We don't give a darn about CO2 emissions and the cost to the environment that God bestowed to us. We don't care a flip about our children's future. If we did, Americans would buy hybrids and other alternatives regardless of the price of gasoline.
Today's hybrids and high-mileage cars are now competitive in price with standard vehicles. We just want to guzzle our fossil fuels, drill baby drill, indirectly fund the radical Islamsists of Saudi Arabia and spew our toxins into the sky.
It's the 1970's show all over again.
Despite the cries of conservatives our economy is still largely based on free market principles. The market will give us what we demand.
For instance, in the next several months my household will soon purchase all our electricity from 100% wind power. It will cost the same, actually a little less, as the power we now consume which comes from coal fired plants. By the way, there is no such thing as clean coal...sorry President Obama. If everyone demanded that their power came from renewable sources I guarantee the market would meet that need. But frankly, most Americans don't care. They don't want to do the research, they don't want to bother with the details...it's too much work. So as a result...pollution from coal fired plants continues to wreak havoc on our environment.
We don't have socialism. We don't have capitalism. We have walletism pure and simple.
