Live like nomads

It seems like the people that are looked down upon most in our society are the ones who are actually using less resources than the rest of us. Think about a homeless person. They have no home, they use no electricity, and usually they aren't driving around a big car from point A to point B. Yet someone driving by them in their car or truck might look down upon them and say "What is this person doing for society?"
On the road bikers are looked at as outcasts or outcast wannabes. Once again, who is the more responsible one? The one driving by him/herself in a car, or the one driving by him/herself on a motorcycle. Its called being efficient. And us first world countries don't like doing it. We have rail systems, though not as good as Europe, but do we use them? Maybe, sometimes. The car companies know this, the oil companies know this. They know that we are going to keep driving the cars we want to drive instead of the cars we need to drive. Most of the time we are also living beyond our means as well. Driving an Escalade to work with those 24" rims. I know for a fact if you bought it new you would be paying at least $800 per month on just the car payment. All for a status symbol. Then if you only make 35k year, that doesn't leave that much for a house payment or other things.
Its not like anyone is going to listen, we had problems like this back in the late 70's. They just adjusted the price of oil again, and everyone was back in their gas guzzlers.
I want an electric car, but I can't afford one. Because none of the big auto companies have any reason to build them YET. So the prices will remain high, people will make fun of them because they are slow compared to gas cars. Maybe I will eventually be able to build my own, or buy one of my liking. The bottom line is: Sooner rather than later, people are going to have to buy things based on need of the environment if we want to stay alive, rather than 'want' of us humans to have material things. (Hey I like being different too, you can always keep that 67 vette as your weekend car.)

No Shortage of Stuff to Piss Me off in the World

Clean coal, I am pretty sure we have all heard the words. They were in the speeches of both presidential nominees. Yet, I stumbled upon this website http://theclean.org/ that says Clean Coal Doesn't Exist. I mean just the words together doesn't make any sense to me. Here is a video from them...

Make the decision for yourself as always, but think about this: Why are we always dependent on all this energy THAT IS NOT RENEWABLE?!?! OIL WILL RUN OUT SOMEDAY. COAL WILL RUN OUT SOMEDAY. I don't care if you believe in global warming or not. You cannot argue against these facts. We live on a finite planet, with finite resources. Yes, of course solar energy may run out too, but in how many million years? Oil and coal can probably be measured in hundreds of years and not tens of thousands or millions. Like the video illustrates, we fight wars over this stuff. "Black Gold" "Texas Tea". All for what? They are going to run out some day too, and all that will be left is a giant desert with refineries that do NOTHING. Hey maybe we could convert that desert into a giant array of Solar Panels and Solar Voltaic Cells. Then they could own that and we could start fighting again over the rights to THAT energy. YEAH what a world we live in. I thought it was interesting in the video, how it shows that even a company such as CNN can be bought, just like a crooked city official. Got any other videos that actually show how clean coal is made?! Please send links in the comments area, thanks.