[gekko]

Originally posted by manasecret
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****.

Except for the fact of how much fact that is based on. And yes, the money goes all the way back to the cartels in Columbia, and the middle east. Why did some people get pissed when our soldiers burned poppy field in Afghanistan? Because it's the people's only source of income, and it's a large percentage of the countries total income.

Yet they don't make any commercials condemning gasoline in the same way, which I think has a same or closer link to terrorism.

Maybe because we get 75% of gasoline from other regions of the world. Maybe because it doesn't have that big of 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.

Please tell me you're not serious. Please. You sound like a foreigner trying to talk US politics, only you're a US citizen.

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.

Oh, that'll do a lot to help the world.

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.

No, that's not how it works. Common weed will be avaliable, but no common person buys weed. Drug addicts buy weed, no one else. And if you know your drugs, you should know about the many different types of weed out there. No one would want the government stuff, in the same way no one wants normal cigars. There's different qualities of weed, and they give you a different effect. All you would do is cause the price of illegal weed to increase, and cause more drug users. Great, what a way to improve society.

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.

And weed isn't as dangerous? I guess you forgot that weed leads to use of hard drugs.

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.

Actually, we do research of weed. There is a legal marijuana farm in the United States.

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.

Great economic plan. Now everyone has even less money due to increased gas tax, something they really can't avoid. And you want them to go out and spend thousands more to buy a new car. The auto industry would do well, but every other industry would do horrible because no one has any money.

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.

The middle east will basically have oil until we have new gasoline and power sources. We could kill them off now, we don't want to. The middle east needs to have money, and we need to buy oil in the middle east in order to have peace.

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.

I have a feeling more people would have the government if we said that.

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.

If they have the money for a $40,000 car, they can afford the gas.