Kauai's Fossilized-Fueled Thinking
By Jack Stephens
This past Sunday morning, approximately 300 Kauai Superferry protesters got out of bed eagerly anticipating a state Senate public hearing in the King Kaumualii Elementary School cafeteria in Lihue.
They flicked on a light switch. The light was powered by electricity generated by fossil fuel.
They jumped into a hot shower. The water was heated by energy powered by you-know-what.
They covered their clean bodies by clothing purchased from Costco, Wal-Mart, Macy's, Hilo Hattie's, clothing boutiques, or thrift stores.
The clothing was made using knitting mills and sewing machines powered by electricity.
The clothing then was shipped to Kauai on Matson or Young Brother's containers on vessels powered by fossil fuel.
They then fueled their bodies and minds with breakfast. Some of the ingredients for breakfast were taken out of a fossil-fuel-powered refrigerator and heated by fossil-fuel-powered coffee-makers, stoves, or microwave ovens.
Most of the food was purchased from Costco, Safeway, Star, Foodland, Cost-U-Less, or neighborhood markets.
The food was transported to Kauai on fossil-fuel-powered vessels, then distributed to the markets by fossil-fuel-powered vehicles.
With food-fueled bodies and minds, they sat down at their electric-powered computers to check their e-mail and compose the testimony they would be presenting at the public hearing.
The results were printed out on electric-powered printers on paper derived from the pulp of trees crushed by electric-powered machinery.
The ink was the result of refined and distilled fossil fuel.
Then they took a break for lunch to fossil-fuel their minds and bodies for the hearing.
They hopped into their gasoline-fueled vehicles to drive to the hearing. They parked on paved black top derived from fossil fuel.
Some of them brought along with them plastic bottles of water imported to the wettest place on earth. The plastic bottles are made of chemicals derived from fossil fuel.
In the cafeteria electric-powered ceiling fans were swirling.
As they testified, the Superferry protesters spoke into an electric-powered microphone.
One-after-another they protested that the Superferry uses fossil-fuel.
One-after-another they longed for "the good old days" when "Kauai was Kauai."
They expressed concern about the whales.
During "the good old days" when "Kauai was Kauai," whale oil was an alternative renewable source of fuel.
Thank goodness for fossil-fueled thinking.
This past Sunday morning, approximately 300 Kauai Superferry protesters got out of bed eagerly anticipating a state Senate public hearing in the King Kaumualii Elementary School cafeteria in Lihue.
They flicked on a light switch. The light was powered by electricity generated by fossil fuel.
They jumped into a hot shower. The water was heated by energy powered by you-know-what.
They covered their clean bodies by clothing purchased from Costco, Wal-Mart, Macy's, Hilo Hattie's, clothing boutiques, or thrift stores.
The clothing was made using knitting mills and sewing machines powered by electricity.
The clothing then was shipped to Kauai on Matson or Young Brother's containers on vessels powered by fossil fuel.
They then fueled their bodies and minds with breakfast. Some of the ingredients for breakfast were taken out of a fossil-fuel-powered refrigerator and heated by fossil-fuel-powered coffee-makers, stoves, or microwave ovens.
Most of the food was purchased from Costco, Safeway, Star, Foodland, Cost-U-Less, or neighborhood markets.
The food was transported to Kauai on fossil-fuel-powered vessels, then distributed to the markets by fossil-fuel-powered vehicles.
With food-fueled bodies and minds, they sat down at their electric-powered computers to check their e-mail and compose the testimony they would be presenting at the public hearing.
The results were printed out on electric-powered printers on paper derived from the pulp of trees crushed by electric-powered machinery.
The ink was the result of refined and distilled fossil fuel.
Then they took a break for lunch to fossil-fuel their minds and bodies for the hearing.
They hopped into their gasoline-fueled vehicles to drive to the hearing. They parked on paved black top derived from fossil fuel.
Some of them brought along with them plastic bottles of water imported to the wettest place on earth. The plastic bottles are made of chemicals derived from fossil fuel.
In the cafeteria electric-powered ceiling fans were swirling.
As they testified, the Superferry protesters spoke into an electric-powered microphone.
One-after-another they protested that the Superferry uses fossil-fuel.
One-after-another they longed for "the good old days" when "Kauai was Kauai."
They expressed concern about the whales.
During "the good old days" when "Kauai was Kauai," whale oil was an alternative renewable source of fuel.
Thank goodness for fossil-fueled thinking.
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