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Winning the future, one sign at a time. Undoubtedly a bus that uses solar-powered plastics and lubricants, eh?

This post was last modified on February 9, 2021

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  • Yep, my bus'a itinerary is all set to take me to Hawaii next year on vacation. I got a great deal so if you're interested just give me a shoutout.

  • What's funny is the idiot holding the sign did'nt finish it. It should say...

    WHO NEEDS OIL, I RIDE THE SHORT BUS

    ...& you know it's true.

  • Even if the damn bus runs on natural gas, if Little John here and his buddies dismantle eevviilll Exxon and friends, just who will have the infrastructure to find it, drill it, refine it, store it, transport and deliver it, and clean up any mistakes? Brazil? Venezuela? You want to see what an actual disaster in the Gulf really looks like, just wait til the Cuban's '57 Chevy and Russian duct-tape powered rig blows.

  • Please keep occupying, just like your parents or grand parents did in 68. It will expose the occupiers for what they are, clueless and used then thrown away.

    When there is no power, no food, no transportation and no way to provide for your self. Dont come looking to take from me or mine. As Hank Williams Jr sang. "A country boy can survive" and protect themselves.

  • Actually we don't need oil if the greedy oil companies would allow for research on alternative fuels rather then lobbying congress to protect their monopoly. So yea we don't NEED oil but because of corporate greed we are stuck with it.

    Keep Occupying!

    • John , I think they should do research in the fuel value of unicorn farts. I've heard that unicorn farts help reduce global warming when its hot and helps increase global warming , when its cool . Who in their right mind would be against that . Only a " stupid " conservative could not see the potential in this research . All the "green jobs " !!!!!

      Always remember that pretend solutions produce pretend results . For those of us in the real world , we're sick of pretend solutions that are really just to create pretend jobs , so that others can pretend to help . You libtards have never had an idea that works in the real world .

        • Flash, you shouldn't have said that. Now some conspiracy theorist will be trying to figure out why your unicorn was genetically altered so that it won't fart, and big oil will be behind it all.

        • You know why there are no unicorns right? Because the greedy oil tycoons knew how much of a threat unicorn farts would be to their monopoly as an alternative fuel and secretly had all the unicorns killed.

          They did it with the electric car years ago.

    • We could stand to use less. Ideally, reduce it just enough that we don't need to get tangled up in messy foreign adventures.

      But we'll never get completely off it. The non-fuel generated materials alone make this a pipe-dream, save for some radical revolution in materials science. This is the Plastic Age, after all (it didn't end simply because we entered the Information Age)

      And oh yeah: idiotic poster. I want to say its a fake/plant, but i fear there are dummies everywhere.

      • Just thumb it down and move on. These shmoes are like dope- it might make you laugh a little at first, but all it does is rot your brain.

      • I want Occupy to be front & center. I want them to get lots of attention. I want them to be the face of the young left in America. I want them to be on the MSM saying exactly what they want America to become, & I want them to be the angry mob that they want to be. Why? Because the more people see of this worthless bunch of wasted human capital, the better. Occupy makes the left look like the welfare state marxists that they are. I'm with you "john", keep occupying, indeed.

      • The occupee'ers i seen are wrapped in corporate stuff, like their hats, jackets ipads, tents,computers, starbucks, etc....

        • Not all of them. Fox News just likes to pick out the few bad apples or the ones to discredit the movement as a whole the most.

  • Tempting, but I gotta think that's one of our team, trolling IRL. They can't =really= be that stupid. Can they?

    Can they?

  • I guess numbnuts doesn't realize the cost of everything he consumes, from food to drugs, are impacted by fuel costs through manufacture and transportation. His and obummers campaign for higher energy costs will impact the poorest and those with fixed incomes like social security, medicare, welfare, and unemployment the most.

    • There was a show on the History Channel a couple of years ago - about oil, the refining process and all the things derived from it. From asphalt to petrochemicals that go into plastics and other materials, drugs, coatings, solvents, not to mention fuels... it's amazing to realize how much stuff we take for granted would not be possible without oil. Even if substitute chemicals were available, the cost of the replacements would price a lot of the end products out of reach for most of us. If the show comes on again, I'd recommend spending an hour on it - I think it was part of their Modern Marvel series.

      • That's the problem with libthink. They have tunnel vision and can't see anything beyond the simplest ideas.
        If you try to explain to them everything in our lives that require petroleum to produce, their little heads would explode.
        We can start with something real simple though.
        Computers, cell phones, the bottles that their Mountain Dew comes in.
        Now, let's see if they can survive without oil!

  • *mouth open* LOLOLOLOLOOOL wow! I guess the bus runs on magic fairy dust. It must be nice to live in fala la la land.

  • Another liberal moron who is too brainwashed to realize that just about everything we use is manufactured or grown using petro-chemicals. Next the idiot will be bitching how it's too cold when it gets too expensive to heat his mother's basement.