i saw a segment on the ever-spiraling downward Daily Show today. They were interviewing this engineer who has dedicated himself to living a petroleum-free life. Not just not driving a car or heating a home, but not using any products that are supported, made, or transported by something that requires petroleum.This man lives in the woods in a hut. This is a man who makes no sense, for a number of reasons. For one thing, this guy uses the tried and retired method of rubbing two sticks together to make a fire. i can see that using a lighter would be against his principles, but flint has been around for hundreds of years. Seriously. The only reason not to use flint and steel is to make your own life harder.
In addition to this stupidity, he gets a lot of his food from dumpsters and road kill. Now, i could be wrong, but my suspicion is that much of the food that ends up in the Trader Joe dumpster (his dumpster of choice because of its lack of maggots), despite being largely organic, might have arrived by trucks powered by petroleum fuel. i also suspect that much of the road kill is created by cars that might in fact be powered by petroleum too.
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