If we really were going to conserve....

[FormerOstrich]

there are a lot more ways than to cease non-essential driving.

I am surprised more people haven't been outraged about being asked to curtail driving. Are we not to take vacations and enjoy our national parks and monuments. Leisure driving is out but sitting in eight lanes of traffic at a crawl twice a day is essential because most corporations don't want to adjust their way of thinking to tele-commuting, satellite offices, flexible schedules, etc. Every public building requires a sweater year round.

Is limiting non-essential driving really the most effective way to conserve?

Let's face it...we are a gluttonous society. Let's take a look at packaging. I'm not talking about the safety features such as the plastic covering over cottage cheese (remember that all started back with the tylenol scare). I'm talking excesses.

Recently I bought an extremely cheap watch. The package it was in was incredibly intricate. You'd think it was housing a rolex. At the deli I bought a slab of ribs. They came in a tray with a lid. I think a saran wrap would have sufficed. It is waste. It requires petroleum to create this waste.

I am not sure exactly why but I find the request to restrict our movements to only when you are working for your corporate masters to be unsettling. Especially when there are no real efforts to conserve. None. zip. Nada.