Exxon Feeling the Pain of Eco-Friendliness? Good for 'Green' People!

Well I know that people who push the Green lifestyle on others, or… ahem, suggest the Green lifestyle can’t take all the credit for Exxon’s plummet in earnings this year. However, we can help keep it going down.

A lot of people criticized Exxon for making such high profits last year when American’s were struggling with the high gas prices. Why is this company making so much money and charging us so much for our gas? American’s were very put off. Exxon sent an army of public relations people to cable news networks to reassure the American people that it was simply a matter of supply-and-demand, not greed and high prices.

Well, personally, I feel a little vindicated. I didn’t have a car for six months and realized, you don’t really NEED a car. People don’t HAVE to be slaves to the car or oil industry, or any industry for that matter. Public transit isn’t what the ‘entitled elite’ think it is. Hell, the upper classes are the worst for the environment!

The rich people in America are the ones spending the most money on private planes (horrible waste of resources) because they’re ‘too good’ to just fly with the little people; they’re driving the least efficient cars (hello, Louis Vitton printed Cadillac Escalade… that makes me want to barf), they have these million square foot homes that suck up ungodly amounts of energy (could you IMAGINE that electricity bill?). Does anyone REALLY need thirty bedrooms Candy Spelling? I think the ‘wrapping paper room’ is just a little ridiculous. I digress.

Exxon took such a big hit because people are only driving to and from work, pretty much. No one wants to waste the small amount of money they are earning on gas. Who wants to fill the coiffures of a Texas oil man? Not I. People are driving less, spending less on oil, and the environment is better for it. Everyone is better for it. Well, except big oil fat cats.

Now, imagine, if people started riding bikes or even scooters to the grocery store; if people began buying hybrid, electric or Prius-type cars? The Exxon’s out there would finally be forced to produce less. There would be so much less tar on the once beautiful beaches of Texas that’s for sure! I went to South Padre last summer and never will again. It’s just far too depressing. You can literally see the oil rigs not too far off of the coast and you can feel the tar that gets stuck to your feet and I can only imagine what the poor marine life is like around there. I don’t even want to investigate that.

American’s can do SO MUCH that isn’t exactly difficult to do. Do something. Just do one small thing. It’s so disgusting how resistant some people are to Green living. They say ‘Green living’ with a look on their face like they ate a lemon rind and all. Is it annoying that there are individuals in this world who want to make sure that the Earth is livable for their grandchildren? I don’t think so. Is it off-putting that people are holding corporations responsible for the amount of waste they put into our environment? No way in hell. Unless, of course, you're a wasteful company like the makers of Red Bull that just got fined a pretty penny for not adhering to the UK government's waste regulations. Idiots.

I’m loving Greenpeace more and more. People can attack them all they want for being ‘radicals’ but what would this world be like WITHOUT radicals for positive change? It would be a hell of a lot more different, and worse.

Let’s put Exxon in the history books. I can’t WAIT for the Nissan Leaf to be released and watch how many people decide to ‘go green’ and buy one. It’s 100% electric and obviously zero emission-causing. It’s a cool looking little car and when people realize that they’ll save a lot of money and the environment by driving it, Exxon and the likes are going to be PISSED. I can’t wait. I can only imagine CEO’s and COO’s scrambling to start saving money and telling their wives to stop planning the $500,000 vacation. I want to see those oil rigs off of the coast of South Padre to be broken down and the steel repurposed for building something for the betterment of humanity.

A few things I decided I’m going to start doing to ‘save the world’:

1. Recycle. It isn’t difficult to do people, stop being so lazy. Some cities in America are implanting chips into people’s recycling bins. Sounds a little creepy but the environmentalist in me doesn’t mind. They’ll know who’s recycling and who isn’t. Those who aren’t, are going to get a lot of annoying phone calls and pamphlets on recycling until they either start doing it or have a nervous breakdown, I’m OK with that.
2. Pee in the shower. Sounds gross, I know, but do you know how much water would be saved if people started peeing when they were in the shower? I’m not saying drop a deuce in your tub, that’s just nasty. There are actual ads being run in other countries (can’t think of which ones right now) that promote peeing in the shower. Besides the water being saved, recent studies have shown that birth control hormones aren’t completely filtered out of our tap water. Notice all the young boys with boobs? How about the 8-10 year old girls that already have a full bra and have to have their mom’s buy tampons? Yeah, that’s why. There are actual trends of boy’s testicles taking longer to drop due to this. Think about how horrible they’re adolescence must be.
3. Buying a Nature Mill Home Compost Machine. These things are only $299 and they are absolutely ingenious! Having a problem with your ‘green thumb’? Well, not after you buy this thing. You put almost ALL of your food waste in this thing (no citrus, no peach pits) and it churns it and heats it just slightly so that it becomes compost faster. It takes two weeks and you have organic compost. It pays for itself. If you’re wondering about the stink of having a compost machine in your kitchen, don’t. There are carbon filters that take care of that; oh, and they last 5 years. Not too shabby. You prevent waste in landfills (food is the most commonly wasted material on Earth), you feel good that you’re doing something for the environment; you also get wonderful compost to grow the best flowers or food-producing plants. Go to www.naturemill.com. Check it out.

You don’t have to do much. You don’t need to join Greenpeace or go Vegetarian (although it is wonderful for your health). You don’t have to ride public transit all the time. You just have to DO something. Stop being careless with the Earth or it’s going to turn on everyone and the environment will stop being something people enjoy on a sunny day and it will become something people fear.