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The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.