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Indy 500 continues to waste fuel: Another car race with no awareness of recession or peak oil
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Danika Patrick, the woman among men in the Indy 500
The Indy 500 happens at this time ever year regardless of the price or scarcity of gasoline. It's pushing $3 per gallon, and it was near $5 per gallon last year. Still, these folks continue to blow off valuable energy as if there is an endless supply. They no longer use gasoline but have replaced it with ethanol, the plant-based fuel that is now causing us to grow corn and sugar for fuel rather than feeding the 25,000 who will die of starvation today. Experts say that the energy required to fill one SUV tank could feed a single person for an entire year.
And we still haven't even included the waste from the fuel used by people who spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to attend and watch cars drive fast around and around and around. I thought that we were deep into a recession, and that people were having trouble with the basics of life. We've been asked to limit our use of oil and combine out trips to save fuel, but these racers just keep driving nowhere. And people come out to watch and cheer as long as they make lots of noise and crash every so often. How about a real technology race of electric, sustainable energy vehicles?
That does not seem to be the interest of such big sports events. People are still attending and making a big deal about this type of "competition," which is really nothing more than lots of fat cat corporate types getting "we the people" to get excited about overpaid "athletes" creating a spectacle. It's just big money using more big money to attract money from unconscious people (mostly guys).
The majority of people who have the great seats are corporate executives whose tickets are bought by the company, many of which are being supported by U.S. government funds. That big corporation may be receiving bail out money from us ("we the people" American taxpayers), but they still "invest" in taking themselves and their clients to these big sporting events.
And they're mostly men who believe that they're in control and living the good life. I say that it's time to look at what we're really doing from a cosmic, global perspective. When will we stop wasting resources on mindless competition and start to feed the 25,000 who will die of starvation today? When will we realize that there is a very limited amount of fossil fuel remaining and stop racing and other "stupid sports tricks" that take our attention away from what's really important. Nobody lying on their deathbed ever said, "I wish I would have watched more professional sports."
May we all recognize what truly provides us with passion and joy so that we can fully pursue that and not some man-made competitive event.
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