Think globally, act locally. That’s the message of this Common Dreams article, entitled “Energy-Addicted US Can Learn a Lot From Europe.” [1] And yes, we can really learn a lot about energy from Europeans.
Someday soon, we’re going to be having fantasies that we had their fleet of tiny cars, those same cars we laughed at a couple years ago. Cars that look like this one I photographed in London three years ago:
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The huge U.S. fleet of gas-guzzling SUVs is putting us in a straight-jacket. Actually, it’s even worse. It’s a national security issue.
And what can you say about a government that allowed us to accumulate a fleet of oversized cars that we can’t afford to use? A fleet that causes us to act belligerently across the globe in an attempt to fill our huge cars with fuel? If only, 5 or 10 or 20 years ago, we had used the tiny amount of IQ necessary to see this energy crisis coming, so that we would have downsized our energy-using equipment in order to be prepared for what we’re about to face.
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