Sounds like you're yearning for the old days. When joy riding meant hitching up your saddle and putting on your spurs and taking your mustang or pinto out for a ride. When fast food meant trying to catch the chicken so you'd have something ...
http://forums.starnewsonline.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/835...
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According to ABC reporter Elizabeth Vargas, "Americans are the most wasteful people on the planet. ... It looks as though some of the props are computer generated, but Vargas clearly interacts and picks up others. So, again, are the producers of this program being wasteful in order to decry waste?)
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newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/04/11/abc-sla...
newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/04/11/abc-slams-americans-most-wasteful-people-planet
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As part of ABC’s Earth Day "celebration," the Friday edition of "Good Morning America" featured another segment on just how wasteful Americans are. ... The piece repeatedly hit the United States for producing so much trash. What follows is a sampling of some of Sawyer’s comments about her wasteful compatriots:
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newsbusters.org/node/12181
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Healthy Home Living. Americans especially are so wasteful, leaving lights on, wasting water, not recycling. We need to do all we can to encourage healthy home living if we want to preserve and clean this world!! (Health & Wellness) ... 39,527,476 petition signatures ... 15,380,503 acres of big cat habitat preserved...
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www.care2.com/c2c/group/HealthyHomeLiving
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Americans don't want to see how the rest of the world lives and the misery and desperation that millions of human beings face every single day so that Americans can continue to wallow in wasteful materialism and ignorant over-consumption.
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www.ironmagazineforums.com/open-chat/64212-why-american...
www.ironmagazineforums.com/open-chat/64212-why-americans-so-ignorant-warning-thread-graphic.html
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Paula, I’m glad your son already sees how wasteful that is. $100,000 on place settings is insane! ... Relative to the UK, the US has higher salaries and lower cost of living so you’d expect Americans to be wealthier, and some are, but expenditure increases to fill all available income when income increases slowly.
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beingfrugal.net/2007/09/18/why-have-americans-become-so...
beingfrugal.net/2007/09/18/why-have-americans-become-so-overindulgent/
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I was under the impression that the debate about recycling was not so much a question of the collection cost of recyclables versus that of regular trash, but the energy expended turning that discarded product into a new product versus making a new product out of raw materials.
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cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/report-contends-t...
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/report-contends-that-recycling-is-not-so-wasteful/
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Palin has continued to repeat the already exposed lie that she said, "No, thanks," to the famous "bridge to nowhere" (McCain's favorite example of wasteful federal spending). In fact, she said, "Yes, please," until this ... Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics : Alaskans are Just Better Americans, So Get Over It (time.com)
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www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/70g4z/sarah_palins_a...
www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/70g4z/sarah_palins_alaskonomics_alaskans_are_just/
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When I stay at some hotels, the only available cups are made of plastic and they are hermetically sealed in — plastic. So you have two plastic items that will hopefully be recycled, but probably won’t be. It must be too inconvenient for a hotel to provide ... Electricity for Americans From Russia's Old Nuclear Weapons...
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travel.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/business/worldbusiness/12...
travel.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/business/worldbusiness/12flier.html
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