What have you done to decrease your dependence on using oil? a FaceBorg Discussion With Many Good Ideas!

 

Plastic is made from Oil. I reduced my use of Plastic by stopping buying water in Bottles... Got a Filter Pitcher instead. Stopped Drinking COKE Too...

JB Commented: 

I don't use a vehicles bigger than I need for the situation. I have a bicycle, e-bike, motorcycle, and SUV. Mostly for my own personal enjoyment but it does save lots of gas. I also live in a basement apartment because it suits me better than a house. I use rechargeable LED lights that go on and off by themselves most of the time.

JB SAID:

Some of the things I've done to decrease my carbon footprint.

Using LED Lighting

Using one room at a time during the cooling season.

Using a well-maintained fuel efficient 4-cylinder.

Using LPG instead of oil

Using a tankless:

Heating & Hot Water system.

Working at Home

SE SAID: 

all electric house fed by nuclear plant, 50 mpg hybrid car, 24 solar panels.

DF SAID: 

Nothin....I'm keep'n my cadillac. my furnace is running as we speak. 'central alberta'. Alberta is oil country. I do my part to keep the industry going. Oil, means a good life, good solid high paying jobs. The Big machine runs on oil.

JW SAID:
I've stopped flying overseas. I use the car only 2xs a week (it's a 2017 and there are fewer than 23,000 miles on her). I stopped taking showers every day (actually, pandemic led me to that). I collect rain water for toilets and plants. I compost. Buy local.

GG SAID:
Drive only when necessary, find the most fuel efficient way to drive somewhere and never drive during rush hours. I have a 2010 Mazda 3, I bought in 2009, I have only about 60,000 miles on it.

I SAID: 

Drive My Car Less... I Hardly Go anywhere anymore... and when I do, I have a valid reason... I stopped Flying in Jet Airplanes. The Last Flight was in 2001 to meet my New In-Laws... I Have Not Gotten Married Since then so... No Real Reason to Fly! We Have our Family Christmas Party on Zoom... Years ago everyone drove to Our Uncle's House...

GJ SAID:

Well before 2010, 100% renewable energy electricity plan.

2011 installed solar panels on the roof.

2017 bought an all electric car, which I charge at home.

2023 turned off the natural gas to the house.

OWK SAID:

Nothing. We rent. But we don't really drive. But depend on Walmart and Amazon to deliver. So I guess we depend on them to find efficient ways of delivering our stuff. So that is something.

Police Murder Solution: MASSIVE LAYOFFS Do We Really NEED to Employ Madmen to Beat People to Death? Wouldn't We Be Safer if We Laid Off Half of the Police Nationwide?

We Could Reduce Government Spending Currently Wasted on CrazyLaws® What if We Spent Our Money on Something Useful? Like: School Teachers, Books or Free School Lunches? 

F*CK the Police Spray painted Graffiti on a BUS... The Star is Photoshopped to replace the Letter "U"

Spenser Haywood

Why shouldn’t the police

That beat that poor man to death NOT be tried for murder 1? I don’t get it. Wtf is wrong with these people? They KNEW they were being recorded! These men are NOT serving and protecting us. They are targeting people and killing them. I grew up across the street from a sheriffs deputy who became a city detective. The am on the corner was a police captain that made chief. Neither one of these men EVER fired their service weapon, let alone shot someone in the back or someone holding an object that wasn’t a gun. You had to literally point a gun at them or another to be shot. And yet, no one has an explanation. Police use to be paid a lil over min wage, unless they were in a command position. Now they make good money and yet perform like vigilantes, guys that were getting drunk in the saloon to at were rounded up to form a posse. There is so much hatred in this country that we are not going to be the utopia of freedom that so any have sought. Why don’t we shot off immigration to the NORTHERN border? Then we can declare war on those people too. Make ‘em ALL illegals. We can’t run the resorts or the farms etc without their labor, so why are they deemed illegals? Why can’t they simply apply to emigrate here? Why are they forced to either sneak in or claim asylum? Why?

Police Going Crazy in the Forest - Evicting Earth First Tree Sitters in Freshwater CA - Ecology Protest

and Yet The Police FAIL to Arrest Donald Trump... They "Magically" Can't ENFORCE THE LAW When the Suspect is Rich... CORRUPTION!

DOJ: #DoYourJob #ArrestTrump #LockHimUP #OutlawCrime #EnforceTheLaw

 

Contact the DOJ:

Here's the Link to Email the 

Department of Justice.  

https://www.justice.gov/contact-us

They Won't Enforce the Law 

Unless You Remind 'em:

"OUTLAW CRIME!"

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I Don't Smoke Weed but It's INSANE to Spend Taxpayer Dollars on Law Enforcement and Incarceration. - When We Tax It, It's a VOLUNTARY Tax That I Don't Pay...

Hey, Government Representatives! Ever Think 

about Behaving SMART With Your Laws? Huh?

Oh, That's Right... The Alcohol Industry and 

Big Pharma are Bribing the Senators... 

Make the Safer Drug Illegal! 

Protect Out Profits!

FREE MARIJUANA LEAF ARTWORK by gvan42 - 

Legalize the Kind Herb! Royalty Free Images 

to Use in Your Own Blog, 

Webpage or Anti-Social Media Post

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That 

WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

https://patents.google.com/patent/

US6630507B1/en 

The US Patent Office States Marijuana is a 

Medicine... That's why it's PATENTED... 

#6630507 They Also Patented the Light Bulb 

and the Telephone... 

Brace yourself for the video of Police officers Beating Tyre Nichols to death; that video will be released to the public at 6pm this evening.

The blueprint for equal justice under the law has just been established by the Tyre Nichol’s case: No longer should it take months or years to bring justice to victims of police officers’ brutality. Police officers should have a duty to intervene when they see their own officers displaying brutality.

So here you have swift justice where you have 5 black police officers displaying brutality against another black man. IT ONLY TOOK 20 DAYS To bring justice against these BLACK police officers, not months or years, as what has been the case where a WHITE police officer is involved. And all those other cases had a video showing the brutality to a black American citizen from non-black police officers.

We definitely still need police reform at all levels of government; WE NEED REAL REFORM in the police Dept., yet the Police Unions don’t want reform in their union contracts. they want to police under immunity. The Legislators in Congress failed to pass the George Floyd Reform Act, this is where we could have had reform at the Federal level. Our fight - America’s fight for equal justice and a stop to Police Brutality continues. Please remember for change to happen we need peaceful activism and peaceful protests.

How to Reduce Plastic Waste. Simple Actions Anyone Can Do. #1. Never Buy Bottled Water. Filter Tap Water Instead.

Here's the Consumer Reports Guide of Filters that Remove Pollution from Tap Water... : 

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/water-filters/

Did You Ever Notice that Water Bottled in Plastic TASTES like Plastic?  That's Plastic Going Into Your Body... 

Of Course, If You Shower in Toxic Waste Water... That's a Problem too... Your Skin Absorbs the Poison... That's Why a Whole House Filter is Best... Contact Your Local Plumber for advice and installation... or MOVE to a Safer Neighborhood. 

#2. Stop Drinking Coke... It's often packaged in Plastic Bottles... So is Pepsi, RC Cola, Mountain Dew and Generic Cola... I personally LOVE the HIGH I Get from Caffeine and Sugar... Especially when driving a car long distances! That's FUN! 

However... It is Possible to Simply Take Those Two Drugs without Dissolving them in a Flavored and Carbonated Beverage... TRY COFFEE... I Remember putting Brown Sugar and Nutmeg in a Cup of Coffee at the Coffee Shop and I FELT OPTIMISTIC! Buzzing Like a Bee and Enthusiastic About Life! Whee! 

Or Drink TEA... Or Drink Fruit Juice Made from a Concentrate... Avoid the Plastic Bottles!

Of Course, Caffeine is sold at the drug store in PILL Form... Especially Interesting is the Combo Pills with Aspirin, Acetaminophen and 65 mg Caffeine... Pain Relievers and Stimulant... Keep taking those and You'll end up driving from San Jose to Seattle... Whoosh! Whoosh!

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The Myth of Plastic Recycling... 

For many, recycling feels like a tangible way to personally combat climate change and to positively affect the environment. That's partially because of decades of public environmental campaigns, advertisements and even school education aimed at increasing recycling. But the reality is that only a small fraction of plastic is ultimately recycled...

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141601301/the-myth-of-plastic-recycling

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Exorcism at the US Capitol 1/3/2023. Surround the Building and Blow Whistles, Beat Drums, Dance, Chant. Burn Sage and Welcome the GOP House Members... 
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/12/exorcism-at-mar-loser.html

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I recently Got an Email showing me the Ecological Awareness Artwork of Benjamin Von Wong...

 https://blog.vonwong.com/turnofftheplastictap/

https://www.vonwong.com/

"There’s something really interesting about the idea that someone can make a living off of creating something that has no value except the value people associate to it." 

https://phlearn.com/magazine/ben-von-wong-creates-powerful-images-to-help-the-environment/

#3. Notice the Plastic Crap you consume and Simply Buy Less of it. I own an iPhone 6 and It Does Everything I Want a Phone to Do... "THEY" Keep on telling me to Buy a NEW IMPROVED Model... TV Ads Promoting the iPhone 14 and YET... I'm Already Happy... Why Buy More Plastic Crap? 

I own a Toshiba Laptop but the Hard Disk Drive Failed and... It made more sense to Replace the Entire Machine with a Chromebook than have the Hard Drive Fixed or Replaced... and the Chromebook Doesn't Have a Hard Drive so it's Impossible that the Hard Drive will fail... 

#4. Stop buying music CDs... Everything is available online for Free on Youtube... so... stop buying Plastic Ware! 

https://youtu.be/qMaJWESoZlk

#5. Buy High Quality Tools that Last a Lifetime... I Have an Yamaha Acoustic Guitar and It Will Still be Wonderful 50 Years from Now... Look at Willie Nelson's Trigger... 

#6. I watch Kids Cartoons on TV and The Advertisements Aimed at Children Promote Endless Streams of Plastic Crap...  My Grandfather Make a Toy Train Set out of Wood and My Brother and I Both played with it... His Daughters Played with it... and His Grand Daughters Played with it... 

The Plastic Crap Toys are designed to break, be thrown away... and then the Parents need to buy MORE MORE MORE!

#7. Plastic Knives, Forks, Spoons, Plates and Cups... REALLY! Simply Use Real Utensils and Wash 'em... My Great Grandmother Got Engraved Silverware for her Wedding and We Still Have It... 

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Please Email Me Your Ideas for How to Reduce Plastic Waste... gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)com or leave a comment below... 

Trump's Trade War CAUSED The Stock Market to Lose Money Again Today. Tariffs Raise Prices, Reducing Sales... Manufacturing Numbers BAD. DJIA Goes Down... Trump is a Dangerous Idiot!

The Dow Is Falling Because U.S. Manufacturing Is Getting Worse. 

https://www.barrons.com/articles/dow-jones-industrial-average-fell-as-u-s-manufacturing-shrank-again-51569941705

Use these Handy HypnoTOAD Animated GIFs 

Above to Slip into a TRANCE! 

Hey Kids, Don't Try This At Home... Satire... One way to Prevent Global Warming is to Reduce use of Electricity. Why Not use a Rifle and SHOOT OUT Half of the Streetlights Worldwide? Vandalism for the Earth! - This is a Joke... Just Kidding! Not a Blueprint for Violet Overgrow Like the Ike and Tina Turner Diaries...

Electricity is often generated using the Dreaded COAL Fired Power Plants... Natural Gas also pollutes... and the WORST IS NUKES... 

Here is a SIMPLE Way to Turn off the lights... 
Eco-Terrorists could Shoot out the Lamp Bulbs using RIFLES. 
Yes, the Government could replace the light bulbs but... that would take time... and money... and depending on the traditional inefficiency... some lamps could be dark for years... Especially if VANDALS simply shoot out the lights again and again... 

ANOTHER WAY TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY USED IS: Grow Marijuana OUTDOORS in the Free Sunshine... STOP Indoor Farms that use GROW LIGHTS. Citizens could NARC on Growers that Own Indoor Farms... It's easy to tell where they are... they SMELL, and no one lives in the Grow Houses... 

Another Plan is to UNPLUG the Transformers that power modems, computers... They are small black boxes that GET WARM when plugged into the wall... EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT USING THE COMPUTER... The Transformers change AC power into DC twenty four hours a day, seven days a week UNLESS YOU plug them into a power strip with an on off switch... simply switch them off when not being used... It's Easy!

Advertising in School Textbooks. As a way to reduce costs in Classrooms, Textbooks now have ads... promoting Corporate Ideas. Including the TEXT of the Book itself.

That's what's happening Now in Schools... Concepts that Advertisers LIKE Get Promoted. Corporate Brainwashing... 

Just Like Corporate Television News Shows. I have noticed that MSNBC and FOX NEWS have a marketing plan to attract more Viewers. MSNBC tells HATE TRUMP news stories. Fox News Tells LOVE TRUMP news Stories.  MSNBC tells that all Trump's actions are bad. Even when he does something good. And Fox News is the exact opposite... 

Well, now textbooks have corporate sponsors... who are telling textbook WRITERS what to say. 

 http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14362735/ns/business-personal_finance/t/new-idea-cut-textbook-costs-sell-ads/

"Textbook prices are soaring into the hundreds of dollars, but in some courses this fall, students won’t pay a dime. The catch: Their textbooks will have ads for companies including FedEx Kinko’s and Pura Vida coffee.

Selling ad space keeps newspapers, magazines, Web sites and television either cheap or free." 

Everytown for Gun Safety is a movement of Americans fighting for common-sense reforms to reduce gun violence.

https://everytown.org/

On September 4th, Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh announced that the San Francisco-based clothing manufacturer (which also owns Dockers) would openly advocate for gun control. As part of this campaign, the company will donate more than $1 million to anti-gun groups, including Michael Bloomberg front-group Everytown for Gun Safety and Giffords, formerly Americans for Responsible Solutions and the Legal Community Against Violence. The company will also match employee donations to these groups and is encouraging its staff to devote their time to anti-gun activism.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20180907/levi-s-teams-with-billionaire-michael-bloomberg-to-attack-gun-rights