Re:Funny. (Score 1)

Want to attack? Ok, let's go. Let me put it this way. I live in a coastal city in Alaska. There's logging here, there used to be a pulp mill here. They've had the audacity to come here, not once, but twice. I can find pictures if you'd like. The second time, they were here last summer, and they had a nice open house. I went to it, simply because I was curious. I personally dislike Greenpeace, because I believe they're going about things the wrong way. Their hearts are in the right place, but their heads aren't screwed on too tight. I, too, have been on this boat. I too, went on a tour where their captain showed us around.

When we got to the engines, he made it a point to tell us that the engines use less fuel, and make fewer emmisions than most diesel engines of that size. I then asked him how he could even condone the use of diesel engines if their whole mission was to eliminate all but the most nessesary uses of fossil fuels. I anticipated his reply which was that this use was considered nessesary by them. I then told him that there are many alternatives he could use that would even further reduce their use of fossil fuels on this boat. I used the Alcyone as an example. Because of it's sails (well, more like vertical airfoils) it uses 1/3 less fuel than it would without them. He said to me, and this is nearly verbatim, because the hypocrisy absolutely stunned me, it was burned into my memory, "Our mission is so important, we don't have the funds or the time to retrofit our ships with mechanisms such as that." Basically, he was saying, as I said above, "We're more important than you, so you should quit using so much fossil fuel. But we'll use it all up if that's what's nessesary to complete our mission."

So screw you. I don't comment unless I know what I'm talking about, and I heard this straight from the horses mouth. But hey, go do something useful like hug a tree, because you can't see the hypocrisy of this organization that you defend. In other words, to quote an unwise man, "Don't assume so much, you look like a jack ass."