Indy 500 continues to waste fuel

Another car race with no awareness of recession or peak oil

The Indy 500 happens at this time ever year regardless of the price or scarcity of gasoline. It’s pushing $3 per gallon, and it was near $5 per gallon last year. Still, these folks continue to blow off valuable energy as if there is an endless supply. They no longer use gasoline but have replaced it with ethanol, the plant-based fuel that is now causing us to grow corn and sugar for fuel rather than feeding the 25,000 who will die of starvation today. Experts say that the energy required to fill one SUV tank could feed a single person for an entire year.

And we still haven’t even included the waste from the fuel used by people who spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to attend and watch cars drive fast around and around and around. I thought that we were deep into a recession, and that people were having trouble with the basics of life. We’ve been asked to limit our use of oil and combine out trips to save fuel, but these racers just keep driving nowhere. And people come out to watch and cheer as long as they make lots of noise and crash every so often. How about a real technology race of electric, sustainable energy vehicles?

That does not seem to be the interest of such big sports events. People are still attending and making a big deal about this type of “competition,” which is really nothing more than lots of fat cat corporate types getting “we the people” to get excited about overpaid “athletes” creating a spectacle. It’s just big money using more big money to attract money from unconscious people (mostly guys).

Examiner