As Shannon is aware, the dinosaurs did not account for todays fuel, unless you count all animals,plants and sediment as dinosaurs. The UK is also a small country and people do not put as much value in their car as most Americans do. But her point is right on, if we as consumers demand efficient cars we should get them.
My point was the same person complaining that gas went up 10 cents a gallon, will go out and buy a bottle of water and have no thoughts of how much they are paying, in some cases for city water.
Coca Cola and Pepsi. will spell out that its bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry. According to Corporate Accountability International, a U.S. watchdog group, they will soon include the words "Public Water Source" on labels.
Those same people then do not recycle that plastic bottle (made from crude oil also). (In general terms, I am sure the Wild Texans recycle
