More Green BS From Friedman

[Boom_70]

Everytime this guys writes one of his columns lecturing us about going green the Times should have a picture of his estate next to the column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/opinion/26friedman.html

 

[User 1019]

'Least his pool's green.

 

[Boom_70]

'Least his pool's green.

yeah - imagine how many trees they had to cut down to build that place.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

For Boom, it does.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Shh, logic plays no role in thread started by Troll_70.

 

[Boom_70]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

He stinky just be thankful that I start threads that lead to interesting discussions or you would never post since you appear to be devoid of the original thought gene.

Shh, logic plays no role in thread started by Troll_70.

 

[Boom_70]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Obviously Friedman does not buy into the green argument as evidence by his estate. Why should he expect everyone else to go green.

 

[RickStain]

His estate looks pretty green to me, to be honest.

 

[Grimace]

Even if your math teacher is a ****, 1+1=2.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Obviously Friedman does not buy into the green argument as evidence by his estate. Why should he expect everyone else to go green.

Obviously? Really?

You can tell he's not put tons of insulation into his home by that photo? You can tell he's not using tankless water heaters or geo-thermal heating and cooling? You can tell R values of the windows? Or the number of CFL or LED lightbulbs? You can tell whether he recycles or buys carbon offsets?

 

[JR]

Boom, what the **** does the size of Friedman's estate have to do with being "green".

Do you even know what it means?

For all anyone knows, Friedman's place is completely self sufficient and leaves less of a carbon footprint than your Hummer.

 

[Double J]

Even if your math teacher is a ****, Boom+70=Fail.

Now there's an equation that makes sense.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Obviously Friedman does not buy into the green argument as evidence by his estate. Why should he expect everyone else to go green.

Obviously? Really?

You can tell he's not put tons of insulation into his home by that photo? You can tell he's not using tankless water heaters or geo-thermal heating and cooling? You can tell R values of the windows? Or the number of CFL or LED lightbulbs? You can tell whether he recycles or buys carbon offsets?

Those lighbulbs suck, by the way.

I'm just sayin'.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Obviously Friedman does not buy into the green argument as evidence by his estate. Why should he expect everyone else to go green.

Obviously? Really?

You can tell he's not put tons of insulation into his home by that photo? You can tell he's not using tankless water heaters or geo-thermal heating and cooling? You can tell R values of the windows? Or the number of CFL or LED lightbulbs? You can tell whether he recycles or buys carbon offsets?

Those lighbulbs suck, by the way.

I'm just sayin'.

Depends on what they're be used for. We've got a mix of CFL and LED lights. You'd never know unless you looked at the bulbs, instead of the light produced.

 

[Boom_70]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Obviously Friedman does not buy into the green argument as evidence by his estate. Why should he expect everyone else to go green.

Obviously? Really?

You can tell he's not put tons of insulation into his home by that photo? You can tell he's not using tankless water heaters or geo-thermal heating and cooling? You can tell R values of the windows? Or the number of CFL or LED lightbulbs? You can tell whether he recycles or buys carbon offsets?

Those lighbulbs suck, by the way.

I'm just sayin'.

You're not alone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/energy-environment/28bulbs.html?scp=10&sq=Light%20bulbs&st=cse

Wait till other shoe drops and we have a bulb disposal problem due to the mercury needed to produce.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Friedman frequently seems an epic, privileged asshole -- no argument, there.

Doesn't denigrate the basic pro-Green posture, though.

Obviously Friedman does not buy into the green argument as evidence by his estate. Why should he expect everyone else to go green.

Obviously? Really?

You can tell he's not put tons of insulation into his home by that photo? You can tell he's not using tankless water heaters or geo-thermal heating and cooling? You can tell R values of the windows? Or the number of CFL or LED lightbulbs? You can tell whether he recycles or buys carbon offsets?

Those lighbulbs suck, by the way.

I'm just sayin'.

You're not alone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/business/energy-environment/28bulbs.html?scp=10&sq=Light%20bulbs&st=cse

Wait till other shoe drops and we have a bulb disposal problem due to the mercury needed to produce.

Hell, they can just dump 'em in the same lot they toss all the used up batteries from hybrid cars.

 

[Boom_70]

Boom, what the **** does the size of Friedman's estate have to do with being "green".

Do you even know what it means?

For all anyone knows, Friedman's place is completely self sufficient and leaves less of a carbon footprint than your Hummer.

He used enough lumber to buld 6 average size houses.

Unless I missed something I cannot find any wind mills or solar panels in the aerial photo.

Surprised that Tom would have black topped his driveway given all the oil black top requires. Seems like he would have been a gravel type guy.

 

[Grimace]

And if you look closely at the photo, you can see he's not abiding by "yellow-mellow, brown-flush it down" either. Fraud.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

And if you look closely at the photo, you can see he's not abiding by "yellow-mellow, brown-flush it down" either. Fraud.

Troll_70 can also tell Friedman uses plastic bags just by looking at that photo.