Reply #2: They could greenwash themselves more cheaply by hiring Amory Lovins.

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He only costs $20,000/day.

I'll bet for $40,000/day, Amory will also offer indulgences for the Saudis relationship with Al Queda - that would be called "dangerous fossil fuel terrorism".

For $60,000/day, Amory will also white wash the sentence imposed against a gang rape victim - 200 lashes and 6 months in jail imposed on a 19 year old woman by Saudi courts.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071115145104.rykb7bub&show_article=1

Wonderful guys, those Saudis a real civic minded bunch.

I note that the young woman's lawyer, a human rights activist, was disbarred and the woman's sentence increased from 90 lashes to 200 because the lawyer appealed to a decent world about the crime.

And what will our car culture apologists do about this? Um, I dunno, maybe they'll all drive to a locally grown dinner for 40 for Thanksgiving, swig Allen's Coffee Brandy right from the bottle and try not to think about it.

Anyone who is impressed by a three hundred million "gift" from a "kingdom" that makes all of its money from dangerous fossil fuels doesn't know shit from shinola about energy. The fact is that 300 billion dollars would not make a dent in the dangerous fossil fuel crisis. In fact, it's not even clear that 300 trillion dollars could undo the damage that the idiot indifference to dangerous fossil fuel waste has caused.

In fact, the car culture yuppie wiggling and self-justifications are all meaningless at this point.