Fossil Fuel Gluttony

You smugly speed by me on the interstate
in your Hemi-powered RAM 1500 towing
a trailer laden with snowmobiles in the winter
and ATVs in the summer.

Your gluttonous mechanical entourage
consumes a gallon of precious fossil fuel
every 10 miles at 80 miles per hour and spews
13 grams of carbon monoxide per mile.

And that’s just to get you where you can
waste more fossil fuel and spew more
carbon monoxide into the atmosphere
to indulge your selfish amusement.

How will you explain this
to your great-grandchildren?