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= = =Title of Speech= Damn "Greenies"

=Text of Speech= You know what? There are many things I would like to see in my future America: jet packs, flying cars, every person with an iron man suit, talking animals. I was going to write this speech on one of these inspirational topics, but instead I came across something that really ticked me off. So I decided to write about that instead. Here it goes. Hypocritical Greenies Environmentalists . They preach one thing and do another. In there defense they are “Politically Correct” after all, and isn’t that what really matters? I think not! Here is where my story begins. My dad is a general building contractor, and a damn good one, he is what I would call “Common Sense Green” not “Non-Sense Green.” I will explain what I mean with a bit of sarcasm on the side, so follow along. My dad is on the cutting edge of everything you can put in a home. He builds smart “green homes” for God sake. I think the homes in most cases are smarter than the owners. These people like “Green Rated” anything, they like these “green” products because they are “green”. Not for function, not for savings, not for any reason at all, except they are “green” and saving our planet. A bunch of crap!! I will tell you why. To prove my point, I will use customer number 1, she is a CEO, and the president of her company. She hires a contractor to build her “Green Home” a 3400 sq ft beach house. She intends to achieve a “Platinum Green Rating ” status on this new house when it is completed. For those of you not familiar with this Rating Scale, it is an official status given to a California Residence that is built using a specific scale to achieve a number, that will generate a Status of certified “Green Home”. This Certificate is what you use to show off to your friends and colleagues, so they can see just how “green” you are. So, she interviews my father who takes a look at the whole project and lets her know the greenest thing she could do is not tear down her perfectly functional existing 2800 sq ft beach house and instead restore it, and add on to it, Good idea, Right? She didn’t like it. She also didn’t like someone pointing out the obvious waste and determent to our landfills. Salvage the original house? NO… that might be TOO “green”. Lets instead tear down the old house, put it in the landfill, and build a new “green” one. And she expects it to be fully equipped with all the new “green rated” finishes she has chosen that come from Europe, “those products are the very best you know?” What is the carbon footprint of getting all that “green rated” product to California from overseas? Oooooh, no matter, lets not concern ourselves with these trivial details, after all it has the rating number we need for the house to get it’s status. Now that we have talked about her Green house, lets talk about her Green cars. She has five, a Mazarati, a jaguar, a Porsche, a Mercedes, and of course a Prius. Are those all green? They may cost some green, but I don’t think they are “Green”. Except of course the Prius. The Prius she drives to “green events” or she lets her house keeper use it occasionally, to take the dogs to the groomers. She wouldn’t want to put the dogs in her nice cars for petes sake. Ooooh, and by the way there are only two drivers in her household, her and her husband. Next we will talk about vacations for the “green”, if they want to go skiing at Mammoth, they cant drive there gas efficient cars, oooh hell no, it will take six hours. We can’t have that! Honey, fuel up the jet. Why not, we can afford it, the planet may not, but we can! The privileges of the “greenie hypocrite”. Did I mention what they do once they get to the snow? While most take the ski lift up the mountain and traverse down, they take the chartered helicopter to go snowboarding. Does anybody see a problem here? I would like to say this mentality is isolated but I know it is not. They have a bunch of like-minded friends and it does not stop there. I’m not sure… but I don’t think the world can afford anymore-green people. Don’t get me wrong, I'm all for preserving the earth and reducing waste, but I call bullshit when I see it, and this is bullshit! So, in my future America I would like to see the green movement be actually green, not politically green and put some common sense and good judgment into the damn “Green Rating” scale.

Thank you.

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