Help save the world. Go IN the damn restaurant!

[jmowreader]

Or the bank, the dry cleaner's, the pharmacy...

I consider the drive-thru a threat to the world just slightly less than that posed by Shrub. Everyone sits there and idles for many minutes at a time. They tell me it requires one ounce of gasoline to idle a car for a minute. That doesn't sound like much...until you multiply the fifteen minutes you sit at the bank idling by the forty people sitting there idling alongside of you by the tens of thousands of banks all across America that have a line just as bad as the one at your bank. Then multiply THAT by the 240 banking days we have every year, or the 363 fast-food-eating days.

You idle at the bank, you burn gas that won't take you down the road.

You pump out emissions that weren't the product of you going down the road.

You sludge up your engine. If you've got a front-wheel-drive from the 1980s you overheat for no reason.

Your sitting on your ass with the engine running enriches Dick Cheney for no damn reason whatsoever.

So quit doing it. Go IN, already!

[swoop]

1. Which oil company does he own stock in?

I'm curious.

[liberal N proud]

8. That would be Halliburton

You know the one that has had no bid contracts for the occupation of Iraq!

Halliburton, Dick Cheney, and Wartime Spoils
by Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray

When Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle revealed that he was getting $725,000 to help Global Crossing navigate the national security issues surrounding the sale of its assets, the press jumped all over Perle, and rightly so. There was indeed something fishy about the chairman of a board that advises the Pentagon making that kind of money to help a company that was having problems with national security issues. Perle is also on the board of Onset Technology, the leading provider of message conversion technology and a major supplier to Bechtel - one of the leading candidates for rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure.

As the Center for Public Integrity has documented, this kind of thing is quite prevalent on the Defense Policy Board, where at least nine of the 30 members have ties to companies that have won more than $76 billion in defense contracts in 2001 and 2002. As more and more wartime contracts are announced, more and more conflicts of interest are coming to light. After all, the Bush administration is riddled with ties to the weapons, engineering, construction, and oil companies that have the most to profit from a war in Iraq. Perle's story is certainly not unusual.

However, of all the administration members with potential conflicts of interest, none seems more troubling than Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney is former CEO of Halliburton, an oil-services company that also provides construction and military support services - a triple-header of wartime spoils.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0403-10.htm

[swoop]

9. Thought he had to get rid of that to be VEEP....

Didn't he give up a coupla million dollars worth before he ran? If not, how many shares does he have?

[liberal N proud]

10. Cheney continues to hold 433,333 Halliburton stock options

Cheney's Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds




http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_options_rose_3281_last_1011.html

"Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity" LOL!

[swoop]

11. Yowza!

[gateley]

2. I'm ashamed I never even thought of that.

No more drive throughs for me - but now I'll actually have to burn a calorie or two getting my Dunkin' Donut.

[LSparkle]

3. I idle for approximately 2 hours a day in L.A. traffic

OK, maybe sometimes I can go 15-30 mph. I wish to God more companies permitted telecommuting because it makes me sick that I'm not only enriching Darth Cheney but ruining my health at the same time. (Blood pressure's up, nerves are shot, gaining weight, etc.)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. You're so right. Thanks for saying what is so obvious but no one noticed. nt

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

5. I refuse to use drive-throughs,I refuse to pump my gas,and I refuse

to do self check-out anyplace.

Lazy? Nope. Just trying to keep folks working.

[L0oniX]

6. This is another reason why I don't go to McFondels or Booger Kink places and I always go in the bank

..to cash a check and deposit money.

[Der Blaue Engel]

7. Just be like me and stop leaving the house

:rofl:

Not to belittle your point, because you're right. :thumbsup:

And to take it further, in all seriousness, you could do all of those things you mention from home. (And you don't really need to be a xenophobic curmudgeon like me, but it sure helps. :D)