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Oil Told You So …

Posted by Cynical Sarah on April 30, 2010

I hate to say “I told you so,” but … I told you so. (Ok, maybe I do like saying it.) Offshore drilling isn’t worth the risk it poses to the environment. Our time and efforts are better spent finding alternative, clean energy sources instead of wasting time allowing more off-shore drilling as part of President Obama’s economic and environmental plans.

The disaster on Deepwater Horizon and the resulting oil leak pretty much made the point clear for me and any other environmentally conscious person who was objecting to allowing more drilling. The initial explosion on the oil rig was a tragedy. The resulting 5,000 barrel-per-day leakage of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is an environmental disaster.


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Earth Strikes Back

Posted by Cynical Sarah on April 23, 2010

This week there were going green messages everywhere I looked. April 22nd was Earth Day and many places were celebrating all week long with their Earth friendly promotions.

Generally I’m all for trying to decrease my carbon footprint. I use reusable shopping bags, and I was even happy to get another one for free when I got one as an Earth Day promotion at a store on Thursday. At least I assume it was an Earth Day promotion since that particular computer store doesn’t usually give out reusable, cloth bags, but it could also have been a valued customer gift since I’ve been there a lot to get computer components for Troy’s computer the last few months.


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Th*ink*ing Green

Posted by Cynical Sarah on April 9, 2010

Last time I bought ink for our printer, it wasn’t more than a few months and I started to get low-ink warnings every time I tried to print something. I knew it had to be some sort of error since I don’t actually use the printer very often, so I ignored it.

I’ve been ignoring it for probably four months now. I did buy a new cartridge a couple weeks ago because I needed to print some resumes, but I still haven’t actually put the new cartridge in. I figure, it’s not out until I actually get a page that looks like the ink is low instead of the computer telling me it’s low.


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Offshore Drilling? Don’t Make Me Regret My Vote

Posted by Cynical Sarah on April 1, 2010

This week President Barack Obama announced his administrations “comprehensive strategy for energy security.” Part of the plan: expanding oil and natural gas development and exploration of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.

If it had been April 1, I would have assumed the announcement was part of some elaborate April Fools joke.


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Publicity Game: Celebrities – 1, Environment – 0

Posted by Cynical Sarah on July 4, 2007

On Sunday I caught a few of the bands that were playing all day around the world as part of Live Earth. There were some great acts that signed on to Al Gore’s love-the-Earth fest and it was pretty impressive how many people showed up in support of the cause.


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