Have you read where Jane Fonda is touring the country in a cooking-oil-powered bus to protest the war in Iraq? Good for her.
I trust she replaced all of the other petroleum-based products on the vehicle with something else. Things like tires, hoses, lubricating oil & grease, all the plastic parts...you know, all that unimportant stuff. And surely she made sure that no fossil fuels were used in the smelting of the steel for the chassis, suspension, etc. or for providing electricity for constructing the myriad other parts on the vehicle.
And what about all the supporting vehicles that will be travelling with her. Camera crews, wardrobe trucks, grocery wagons...those will all be petroleum-based-product-free (PBPF) as well, correct?
Yeah, I'm sure she thought of all that. After all, she's a big Hollywood star...she don't need no stinking fossil fuels!
I really wish there were some way to force people like Hanoi Jane to live PBPF lives, even just for one week. The ensuing wailing and gnashing of teeth would quickly reach hypocritical mass. Of course, somehow the resulting media implosion would all be blamed on Bush, or at least a vast right-wing conspiracy.
Check the facts, all you neo-hippie-jihadi-loving war protesters out there. We need fossil fuels. The Middle East produces most of the world's fossil fuels. Socially and politically, the Middle East is consistently unstable. You figure out why we need to be over there.
Ms. Fonda, if you can come up with a way to eliminate all (or even most) of the need for petroleum-based products in our daily lives, then you will have something worth taking across the country. But given the fact that your cooking-oil-powered bus wouldn't be a bus at all without petroleum-based products, your little tour is a sad waste of time and effort.
Not to mention, it makes you look like an idiot.