Do you feel the same?

So, tell me something, do you feel this way too?

Every time I get in my car and drive somewhere, I feel like I'm helping to kill the Earth!!!!

When I see how much trash that we accumulate and throw out, all I can think about is 'where is this trash going to be put? How much trash can our planet deal with?' I have four trashbags in my living room right now, ready to be taken to the dumpster. Yeah….FOUR. AND my bathroom trashcan is full and needs to be emptied, as does my kitchen trashcan. So, actually, I have SIX. It's CRAZY. And, tonight, at home, I'm going to be decluttering 27 items that I no longer love or use (thanks Flylady), so that'll be even more crap. God, what is wrong with us? Why in the Hell do I have so much crap that I don't even want????? Must I fill every flippin space with something? Geez!!! Then we take the clutter to the Goodwill, and why do we do that? So someone else can bring our clutter home and clutter up their house??? What????

Then, when I buy gas, I think about, 'How much longer can our society sustain and survive such high gas prices, which are only going to get higher?'

What if gas gets to $4.00 a gallon? It would cost $60 to fill up my car. Which I now feel stupid for having bought, because it sucks gas! I miss the 30 miles per gallon that my crappy little Escort station wagon got. That rocked. It's kind of like breaking up with a guy…I have to keep referring to my, 'The Truth About That Car' list.

Soon, driving a Hummer will no longer be a badge of wealth like it is now. It'll be a badge of SUPER wealth. The social and economic status (and conspicuous consumerism) that the Hummer itself now represents will soon be represented by the simple fact of whether one can afford to drive or not.

Well, hey, if the world ends or it gets too expensive to drive, at least we know we'll lose some weight, don't we? I mean, the obesity epidemic might actually take care of itself. LOL. BECAUSE WE'LL BE WALKING EVERY_FRICKIN_WHERE!

Where is the cry in Omaha about improving mass transportation, hmmm? It sucks a$$ right now. Why is no one talking about this?? Pretty soon, we're going to need it.

And I don't mean the Hummer drivers…I mean the folks that work at McDonald's, the secretaries, the TEACHERS, the teenagers, the baggers, the cashiers, the cleaners, the babysitters. *They* are the ones who are going to desperately need improved mass transportation. Because, God knows, they are the people who can least afford to either convert their existing car to electric OR buy a brand spankin new $20,000 Prius or other small electric car. So, again, WHY is no one saying anything about about this? WTF?