 (Continued from Front Page) exist; I'm not a scientist. I just think that we are all over-reacting. The sky will not fall in, we won't all be living in igloos, gas won't run out tomorrow, and we won't be returning to the stone age. Why am I so confident? Well, in my thirty-five years of life I think that the environment here in Australia is cleaner than it's ever been due to the use of unleaded petrol, and I personally think the weather is exactly the same as it has always been. There's nothing different. The only difference is that today the lefty green politics of the seventies has now become mainstream as the hippies moved into office. It's these same green hippies that are, as Denny Crane in Boston Legal says, ‘raining on my electric parade.’ One must remember that the green parties are made up of the following: hippies, faux, beatniks, communists, and athiests. Put that little pot on the backburner and twenty-five years later it starts to boil. Can you imagine being at their meetings, a fly on the wall to hear how pleased they are that finally people are listening to them! Mind you, the personal hygiene habits of most greeny hippies would probably cause the fly to fall off the wall from the fumes of body odour or the wacky tabaky that most of them smoke. The biggest thing that annoys me is that you are expected to care, and heaven forbid if you don't. It's as if you are a complete irresponsible fool who is walking around swinging a gun in nonchalant fashion. Well, people, I for one am sick of it, and I for one refuse to even pretend to care as I put my foot on the gas and roar down the freeway in my 1965 Valiant, and, yes, I smile as I suck down that gas because it doesn't matter. And guess what? I don't recycle (gasp). If anything, I deliberately try and put my garbage in the wrong trash can because of this little secret that was passed on to me by my garbage man. ‘Koop,’ he said, ‘it all goes to the same place. It's all for show buddy, all for show.’ This said, the government in my country has decided to create an Emissions Trading Scheme which, in short, means that the everyday person will be taxed to the hilt all in the name of ...prepare tears...sob… "The Planet". Brave fighting words from the government have been laid down as we tackle ‘the greatest challenge to ever face the world.’ Funny, I thought the Nazis and child poverty or perhaps terrorism would have rated a mention but apparently not. So in the process we will wreck the Australian Economy and drive the country into depression, which will probably be the only driving going on due to the massive tax on gas. But as the Environment minister Penny Wong says, ‘Drivers have been put on notice.’ Really, Ms. Wong? Am I back in School? You know what? I am just a guy trying to make a living. I am not breaking the law, just driving a car, and pray tell me, Ms. Wong. What is my other option to get around this city? Electric car perhaps? Oh that's right, they don't sell them, do they? Plus, even if I managed to get my hands on one, well, it doesn't go that far. All right, I've got it, I will buy a Prius, but here’s the skinny on the Prius. According to an article by Chris Demorro posted on The Recorder Online, the Toyota Prius, the most popular hybrid, is not actually that efficient. ‘Their ultimate 'green car' is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America; it takes more combined energy per Prius to produce than a Hummer.; Yeah I am mad - mad as hell. I am sick of the nanny state, sick of politicians and their double standards, sick of greenies telling me what to do, sick of the greenies telling me that I can't do anything, that my very existence produces carbon emissions!!!!!! ARGHHHH I've got an idea, lets stop talking about it and maybe that will stop all the hot air in the world. Now I must warn you that not only will I not enter into any correspondence on the issue from those who have developed a hate for me due to my lack of green running through my blood, but I also don't care enough to even open the emails so I wouldn't waste my time I were you. I will leave you with this one statement. It won't happen
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