Gasoline is what is wrong.

We have the sun and the wind but thanks to the "global economy" and a
failure of our own moral and technological imagination, we persist in
shipping crude oil part-way around the planet to fuel larger and larger
cars with fewer people in them, isolating ourselves in luxurious comfort
from the questions that should otherwise occupy our conscience:

     Are all these roads and highways the best expenditure of the
     taxes we pay?  Should we be consuming so much energy?  How am
     I contributing to or detracting from social justice in the
     world?

"Stability" in the middle east is too high a price to pay for our
failure to pursue a better America.

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But what can I do, you wonder?  You can't change the whole world, but
you can change your own tiny bit of it.  Some day, when you aren't in a
hurry, step past the car and walk to your intended destination.  Look at
the houses, the streets, the stores, the people, the CARS, along the
way.  You'll notice how disgustingly huge some of those shiny brand new
Ford Explorers are!

And, you'll save a little bit of a gallon of gas.  You'll have struck a
seemingly insignifacent blow for global justice.  A few cents will not
have flowed to some multi-national oil company.  A drop in the pond will
have helped someone change their mind.

Or not.  Maybe.  I don't know.  I try to avoid the car when I can,
opting for my feet, my bicycle, the bus, the light rail.  I yearn for
solar power.  I turn the lights off when I leave an empty room.  But you
know, I can not imagine for the both of us.  You have to stop off on the
side of the road and smell the flowers your own damn self.

Good luck.  We're all in this together.