Are you Green?, HA! Options

[naro914]

HA, I have to share this....

I was in the back of my building doing a few tweaks to my race car Papa Smurf. Running it up and down, etc. (2.2 high compression 6 cyl engine, headers to megaphones...) Then I went over to the 69 911 and had to change the piece of cardboard underneath because it's soaked in oil (next project). I was on the phone with another guy regarding my street 914 "Huey" and the fact that it's running very rich and needs some carb adjustments....

So I come back to my computer and get a spam email asking "Are you Green? How is your Carbon Footprint?"

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Uh....kind of like Bigfoot's....

[byndbad914]

In reference to the Hummer being cleaner than a Prius start to finish, Top Gear made a similar statement about a study that said driving a Range Rover SUV was better for the environment overall. May have been an extension of the same study tho'.

Anybody that owns a Prius is a fricken moron. Hopefully that ends that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) We would be much better off to have turbo diesels with particulate cats and use the already existing ULS diesel. Get 50mpg in a larger, nicer AWD car like a Subaru Outback than that lame-ass Prius and after we move to nuclear energy (which, if ever even possible, will take this country probably 50yrs v. the 30 yrs hoped for... keep in mind 30yrs!! if we start tomorrow and get on a real schedule to better energy generation) consider electric cars that plug into the wall.

Just like to take a minute to thank all the stupid, stupid, clueless f'ers that are buying electric cars right now or in the near future. Energy is already becoming an issue with the influx of people (population growth in large cities like LA for example) and they are talking rolling brown-outs within just a couple of years in those large cities, and now idiot fuchs want to plug their car in while they are at it. And burn coal BTW to get the electricity (50% of US electricity is produced from coal).

Problem is that Americans need a cause. The tool that owns that jackass smart car probably jerks off to Al Gore movies while both attesting we should free Tibet one day and the next protest the current war.... so just exactly how should we free Tibet? Oh yeah, aren't people in Ethopia still starving? Remember the big hullabaloo over that back in the late 80s, early 90s. Then it was South Africa. Then it is Rwanda. After a few years the next bandwagon comes along. This one just hasn't seemed to die out yet, sadly because there is truly a possibility we need to be greener but how we do it is absolute bandwagon/sheep herding.

BTW, Mars is also experiencing global warming right now... must be all the pickup trucks and fossil fuels. Stupid Martians, we better launch some Priuses over there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Am I against being green? HELL NO, as long as it is truly moving towards green. I would love to have a 50mpg turbo diesel suby. Not a VW, those things are junk after about 60K miles when all the handles start falling off of them, etc. I am actually considering the Jetta for my fiancee but hate VW and would prefer an AWD option for her here in CO. If the price of solar roof stuff ever comes within reason I am all over that too, tho' with the threat of rolling brown outs, having a solar setup with on-site battery backup may be nearly a requirement (back to batts again!).