Word: guzzlers
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...killjoy, but with gas prices soaring and global warming such a worry, why encourage a gas guzzler of a pastime? The Super Bowl in its entirety probably guzzles as much gas as the Daytona...
...Replace your gas guzzler with a fuel-smart car. A car that gets 20 miles per gallon emits about 50 tons of CO2 over its lifetime; one with double that mileage emits about half as much. Buying a new car that gets just 3 m.p.g. more than your old one can reduce CO2 emissions by 3,000 lbs. a year. The best solution: Purchase a hybrid instead. (A hybrid vehicle that averages 45 m.p.g. contributes at least 5 tons less CO2 to the atmosphere than a vehicle that gets under 20 m.p.g...
...mainland growth is great for regional trade, but China's outsized appetite has also driven up global commodity prices, including for crude. China, which is expected to consume 6.3 million barrels of oil per day in 2004, surpassed Japan last year to become the world's second-biggest oil guzzler (trailing only the U.S.). China "is emerging as one of the most decisive factors" in global energy markets, according to a June report published by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a U.S.-based consultancy. This year, global consumption of oil has jumped by 2.5 million barrels per day, the sharpest rise...
...bottle. Many recycle damaged bottles so often that they go off like grenades?"beer-bottle explosions were responsible for most of last summer's consumer injuries," says the China Consumers' Association. Yet this fragmented market has grown so fast that China passed the U.S. as the world's biggest guzzler in 2002, and by 2007 one in five bottles sold in the world should flow into Chinese bellies...
Experience, though, makes me doubt that such protests would do any good. When I was a kid, my father drove a Town & Country wagon roughly the size of a supertanker. One day a forward-thinking uncle asked me, "Why does your dad drive that gas guzzler? Doesn't he give a damn about the planet?" When my father caved in and bought a Honda Civic, he displayed the zeal of the convert and--drunk on virtue and high mileage--indignantly began to point out land yachts everywhere. My brother and I, jammed into the backseat, felt differently. We missed...