From: Brent on
On 2009-10-10, Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lots of people in my neighborhood have Priusen. Some houses even have
> two parked in the driveway. These must all be great people who love
> the planet and want to fight Global Warming and all that stuff, right?
>
> So then explain to me why someone would bundle their two dogs into
> their Prius and drive it to the neighborhood park so they can walk
> their dogs?

You're missing a fundamental part of human society. Image,
perception, illusion, and belief matter, not substance.

The nobel 'peace prize' was just given to a man who in reality has
continued and expanded war.



From: Cameron Kaiser on
Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> writes:

>Lots of people in my neighborhood have Priusen. Some houses even have
>two parked in the driveway. These must all be great people who love
>the planet and want to fight Global Warming and all that stuff, right?
>So then explain to me why someone would bundle their two dogs into
>their Prius and drive it to the neighborhood park so they can walk
>their dogs?

When I see a Prius going 80, it makes me wonder if saving fuel is priority
#1.

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From: joel garry on
On Oct 10, 8:14 am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lots of people in my neighborhood have Priusen. Some houses even have
> two parked in the driveway. These must all be great people who love
> the planet and want to fight Global Warming and all that stuff, right?
>
> So then explain to me why someone would bundle their two dogs into
> their Prius and drive it to the neighborhood park so they can walk
> their dogs?

Because there are places to put their dogshit without having to carry
it all around the neighborhood or leave it in your driveway?

(But seriously, I agree with Brent, even the Nobel prize comment.)

I know I drive to walk on the boardwalk (Carlsbad seawall) because
there are girls in bikinis there. I could walk in my neighborhood,
indeed it would be a better workout due to the terrain, but the social
aspects (that is, having people about in a pleasing environment, not
necessarily interacting with them) make it worthwhile to commute. Of
course, I don't drive a Prius, so I can't be smug anyways.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/1002

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From: Daniel W. Rouse Jr. on
"Scott in SoCal" <scottenaztlan(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Lots of people in my neighborhood have Priusen. Some houses even have
> two parked in the driveway. These must all be great people who love
> the planet and want to fight Global Warming and all that stuff, right?
>
Let's see how "green" those Toyota Prius vehicles really are when it is time
to replace the battery, or one of them has to be junked due to being
totalled in a collision.

Likely won't have to happen for several years, but eventually it will have
to happen.

Those specialized NiMH type batteries have to be recycled/discarded
somewhere. In California, even NiMH batteries are considered to be universal
waste, and so they cannot simply be dumped in the trash.

From: necromancer - ECHM on
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:48:35 -0700, "Daniel W. Rouse Jr."
<dwrousejr(a)nethere.comNOSPAM> wrote:

>Let's see how "green" those Toyota Prius vehicles really are when it is time
>to replace the battery, or one of them has to be junked due to being
>totalled in a collision.

Or when one of those batteries ruptures in a collision and spills
whatever is in them into the environment...

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ninety minutes someone in this country is hit by a train. A train,
okay? Trains are on tracks; they can't come and get you. They
can't surprise you when you step off a curb. You have to go to them.
Got that?"
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