Iraq

And the planned attack

To sack

And save

The blood that keeps the modern body alive,

Bleeding black from deep below.
 

75% of US oil is foreign based.
 

National interest

National interest

Where is my interest?
 

Make my SUV extra big

So I can suck the air out of the lungs

Of asthmatics and arthropods.

A diuretic to let the rivers flow higher and malaria

To transpire.

Let CO2 levels rise to warm our tea kettles,

And plot our demise?
 

The campaign began this past July

When sweat and car exhaust mixed as fliers began to flip

From hand to hand,

Screaming of weariness and frustration

At ignorance

And exhaust pipes spewing soot at levels similar to the days of

The Clash and Spinal Tap.
 

A group of Macalester students,

Somewhat fluent in the dialect of the environment,

Have taken up the push for compressing the emissions,

Spitting out of these current day Model T systems.
 

“The Freedom Option-Package”: Masterminded by the Sierra Club and directed at Bill Ford.
 

A recent study by the Union of Concerned Scientists confirmed that Car companies can make several key adjustments that would raise effeciency up to at least 40 MPG.
 

The Sierra Club’s package consists of:

Continuously Variable Automatic Transmission: Improving “gear ratios.”

Variable-Valve-Control Engine: More precise control of the mix of air and fuel.

Integrated Starter-Generator: Stops engines from using up to 15 percent of gas while idling.
 

Save gas, pollute less, Depend less on foreign oil,

While potentially creating 40,000 new jobs in new efficiency sectors of car

manufacturers.

This pie is piping hot,

Just waiting for us to dig into Bill Ford,

Who promised in 2000 to improve fuel efficiency by 25%,

As he continues to gargle with oil nightly before peacefully going to bed.
 

Bring the roosters to Ford’s bedroom in these coming weeks,

Awaken him with jam and toast

And SCORCHINGLY hot coffee,

And remind him and other car manufacturers

The mere existence of breakfast and world stablity

Tomorrow and today

Greatly depends on augmenting these efficiency standards.
 

This Tuesday (Oct. 1) at 10 a.m. we will rally at the Tousley Ford plant with the Sierra Club and students from the U and various high schools,

Traveling there in the luxury of Macalester vans (ironic, no?).