go green!!

this is one of our excavators in action!

sweet, sweet action!!!

this is actually a comment i left over at csi Seattle's blog. he was having some troubles with a few commenters about one of his posts. he drives a big truck and enjoys it. some folks didn't appreciate his enjoyment or his big truck. left him some not so nice comments and he didn't like that at all...

its a big truck truck, who gives a shit. I'd drive a jacked up hummer if i had the money, my licence plate would read "yeah i am that asshole you bitch about."

i am the kid in school your parents warned you about as well...

i wanted to give him my side or version about how i feel about these high and mighty folks who "care so much about the planet". here was my comment, in case he deletes it. he doesn't want heat in his comment box and this might stir it up over there. sorry csi...


"that's pretty ff-ing funny if you ass me. the drama that is... I'll give you another side of the truck driving/gas wasting vs.hypocritical save the earth angle... where i work the trucks are all big. massive. our smallest truck is a crew cab f-250 long bed. we have transfer haulers that average about 4-5 miles a gallon (when empty of dirt, equipment, etc), transport trucks, portable concrete batch plants, thirty some odd pieces of equipment ranging from backhoes to bulldozers, (bigger than tanks, try a cat d-9 on for size)anyway, where we live folks are all about building green and carbon footprint, blah, blah, blah... do you know what it takes to build this stuff? first any of the materials found in these homes is manufactured "somewhere" right? well then its shipped via cargo ship, train, plane, transport hauler, etc... across the globe to the home site... which uses fuel, oil, kills animals in various ways right? then we haul our soot belching equipment to the pristine ocean view they spent millions buying,(i wont get into the evils of money here)and we dig. disrupting local plants and animals, ripping out trees and the like.then we line the dirt with various forgien materials, anti moisture barriers, plastics and treated gravels...lay a foundation you say? well then we bring in more trucks and pumps and will spread hundreds of yards or concrete embedded with fiberglass which will encase miles of wires and plastic tubing and conduits, galvanized pipes and the like...the wood used to form these foundations is normally discarded... thousands of board feet of lumber dumpstered... then we haul off your dumpsters in our d.o.t. rated dump trucks...when this is all done we dig large holes in the earth and install huge fiberglass tanks and trench in hundreds of feet of plastic piping so they can have the ease of flushing a toilet... then fifty or more feet of "leach fields" where the excess "black water" will run off and into the ground for years to come...lets take a little break here and realize that you cant get the next phase of your "green built" home done without construction work and construction workers. they will not be hauling their equipment and building supplies there on top of their prius or echo. they will need trucks, lots of them, four wheel drive versions to get up the dirt road we hacked into the side of the mountain and over the bridges we built with steel shipped over from china and Taiwan...when all this is done, the customer would generally like several back-up power options installed in to the network of the house. so we install generators and solar systems... (did you know it takes more energy and electricity to build a solar panel than it will ever produce in its life time?!?! ever! it could produce power for a hundred years and still not even come close... just thought you should all know that.) now the home owner will want to protect their home homes with some commercial grade chemicals rights? stains and weather proofing and the like right? i know there are some organic paints and stains, i have them in my home. but the average home builder does not like the maintenance involved with these products, so they use the ones with m.e.k. nasty stuff, makes babies with three arms and shit...then they will need to get water, either by drilling into the earth and finding it or tapping into a spring or pulling it from a nearby creek. more pipes, more wires, more fuel/energy/plastics into the air... and it lowers the aquifer an/or surrounding creeks.now they move in and want shit like t.v. and phone, perhaps some high speed Internet. more trucks show up and hack down some trees and set up plastic dishes and telephone poles and more cables and wires and fiber-optic nonsense.
is your home feeling green now?
so when you are out driving around in your hybrid feeling smug about how you are saving the world one step at a time your not... unless you live in a hollowed out tree stump and fly a kite to work, you are no better than anybody else who drives a four wheel drive truck to work and gets a sense of enjoyment out of it..."



wait until i post about how California should secede from the nation and we should start a "don't ask, don't tell policy with our working friends from the south....