Comments on: Gas Consumption: California vs. China, India

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By: Bucky

Bucky — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:24:57 +0000

I am surprised nobody has made any political hay out of this. If I were a politician I certainly would be taking Pelosi and Reed to task…especially Granny Pelosi. I guess Californians are just culturally and morally superior beings that hold some kind of sacred high ground….like elves or something. “Let the lower entities such as the Texans and the Okies and the Alaskans drill for oil. Ignore the billions of cubic feet of natural gas off our coastlines and the hundreds of millions of barrels of oil (proven and suspected) out there. We need our Pacific vistas. Let the rest of the U.S.A. eat cake”. It makes me want to convert my S.U.V. to run on baby seals

By: Frugan

Frugan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:44:21 +0000

The story is in Rediff today.

But it seems with the increase of commercial products in India, there's going to be an increase in plastic bags and an increase in pollution.

Here are some solutions that are coming up:

Plastic roads: The cost of tar has also gone up with gas prices, BTW.

Petrol from plastic: works well when combined with this

By: melbourne desi

melbourne desi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:36:50 +0000

I love eating off of banana leaves or out of those "disposable" bowls made of pressed leaves

so do I. Northern Australia has lots of banana leaves - no one has figured out to make $$ out of those leaves. Yet.

The "Green" of the West is mostly hypocrisy. Just talk. Bah and I dont have time for them. Vandana Shiva on the other hand ....sometimes I disagree with her positions but she does not annoy me as much as Al Gore or Bob Brown.

By: Rahul S

Rahul S — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:10:54 +0000

Conservative talk show host Bill Cunningham claims that Indians & Chinese peeps are using their autorikshaws (however you spell it) in greater numbers, and thus, we have high gas prices.

By: amaun

amaun — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Reminds me of Talab Vobgon where all the behenjis recycle all the bhaiyas milk their own cows and the bachchen never need plastic slippers.

By: Harbeer

Harbeer — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:20:30 +0000

I used to tease my grandmother for saving stuff like the bit of string a box might be tied with. I thought she was cheap, but now, looking at the Mad Max kind of scenarios that might lie ahead of us, I think she's wise and strive to be more like her.

By: ensure

ensure — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:05:58 +0000

it's hard to waste in the desh because the trash doesn't go anywhere - if it can't be eaten by crows or sold by scavengers, it will sit there and stare at you for days. hardly related: when i was a little amreekan girl visiting my grandmother's village, i had a Chunky bar hidden in my suitcase (i was a hoarder). one day i looked outside the window and i saw a Chunky wrapper lying on the ground. somebody stole my Chunky!! short of digging a hole to bury it, there was really no way of hiding the wrapper anyway. never helped me find the culprit, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Newman

By: khoofia

khoofia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:01:27 +0000

And what about the dudh-wallah? He will ride up on his bicycle, you take your vasun out and he measures out the daily amount.

I beg your pardon. He does WHAT with your vasum?

By: Harbeer

Harbeer — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:54:10 +0000

28 Â· sunshine said

ndians in India have always been using "GREEN" products for decades. For Example, My grandparents/parents always carried jute bags when going grocery shopping. We always used steel containers/glasses as opposed to plastic. Never threw empty containers but always found a way to reuse them. Always used water sparingly since it was always a scarcity.

Vandana Shiva's book Water Wars starts off with a great anecdote. She takes a train (to Rajasthan, I believe) and is overwhelmed by the number of discarded water bottles littering the train tracks, stations, cars, streets--they're everywhere. Plastic that won't decompose for a long time. She contrasts that to the "jal mandirs" where community members gave free water to thirsty passersby in little clay pots that could be smashed (and returned to the earth) after use. (Actually, the preface to that book is available here--pages ix-x.)

I love eating off of banana leaves or out of those "disposable" bowls made of pressed leaves.