Hummers

[Jon Flanders <Jon_Flanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick Schmidt, founder of I.H.O.G., the International Hummer Owners
Group, said: "In my humble opinion, the H2 is an American icon. Not the
military version by any means, but it's a symbol of what we all hold so
dearly above all else, the fact we have the freedom of choice, the
freedom of happiness, the freedom of adventure and discovery, and the
ultimate freedom of expression."

"Those who deface a Hummer in words or deed," he added, "deface the
American flag and what it stands for."
full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/business/05AUTO.html

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"About 1 trillion barrels, and that first trillion barrels that we've
extracted is the easy stuff. It's the stuff that's easy to find, it's
under high pressure, you just have to stick a straw in the ground and it
comes bubbling up. What's left, the oil that's left is going to be more
costly to extract, so the net energy profit from that oil, instead of
being, you know, 100 to 1, 200 to 1. Oil exploration and extraction are
already down to by some figures 20 to 1, 30 to 1, 40 to 1 in that range.
And within the continental US, the activity of oil exploration has an
energy profit ratio that by some estimates is down to about 1 to 1. In
other words it costs as about as much energy to search and extract a
barrel of oil in the continental US as that barrel of oil actually
contains. So what this means is the net energy available to industrial
societies is being reduced year by year." Richard Heinberg, author of
"The Party's Over, Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies"

full
http://globalpublicmedia.com/TRANSCRIPTS/index.php?name=RICHARD%20HEINBERG&origin=
/INTERVIEWS/RICHARD.HEINBERG/index.php&transcript=2003/02/RichardHeinberg-01-3.2003-02-28

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