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PRIUS GANG AT LARGE
Two months ago the New York Times ran a piece by Californian Chris Marcil in which he mentioned the theft of his hybrid-identifying DMV sticker - a sticker that bestows coveted carpool-lane privileges. Opportunistic hybrid peelers obviously took note:
It may be California’s newest crime: The Department of Motor Vehicles says it’s receiving two to three dozen requests a month for replacement stickers from hybrid owners who say they’ve been ripped off. Thieves, these drivers theorize, are peeling off their yellow carpool decals in hopes of selling them.
Hybrids function least efficiently at highways speeds, when they run almost completely on traditional internal-combustion power. Consider these thefts a form of carbon tax.
UPDATE. Canada also has enviro-related auto problems:
The “insanity” of the environmental movement is now the biggest threat to Canadian automotive jobs, Buzz Hargrove, the Canadian Auto Workers president, said ...
He also charged that none of the environmental policies being promoted by politicians make sense or will stop global warming.
“It’s the insanity of the environmental movement—everybody’s trying to outgreen each other,” Mr. Hargrove said, singling out Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister, and George Bush, the U.S. president, for his harshest criticism.
“Politicians have gotten the green god and now they’re running with it for the next election.”
We definitely need a government funded study to determine the ecological damage evoked from the distribution of HOV stickers stolen from hybrid-autos. Logically, based on the findings, we’ll need a government program to off-set this damage. Yes Sir, there’s nothing that can’t be solved by good old government intervention! I mean, just look at immigration and welfare. The future looks bright and secure. And once Queen Hillary takes the throne, we’ll never have to make another decision for the rest of our lives.
</mouth froth>Dunno if I posted this here before, but an actual bumper sticker I saw out here:
“I beat up five hippies
and all I got was this
fucking Prius.”Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 16 at 09:43 AM • permalinkThere was a news report on CNN that Priuses are flunking emissions tests in the state of Georgia. They claim that it’s because the engine stops when it goes to just battery power, but while I suppose it’s right (emissions tests simulating the kind of low-speed driving conditions hybrids do well in), it seems a little weird—why would the test flunk because the emissions stop entirely for a time?
I think it’s the smugness emissions, as ErnieG mentions, that cause the flunkulation.
Y’know, I have to wonder how many of these Prius owners are selling their stickers (or simply giving them to relatives or friends), and then bleating about it being “stolen”. I know some people will steal anything not chained down, but just how valuable are those stickers? It sounds more like a niche market than a commodity.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 16 at 10:43 AM • permalink“It’s the insanity of the environmental movement—everybody’s trying to outgreen each other,” Mr. Hargrove said, singling out Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister, and George Bush, the U.S. president, for his harshest criticism.
Odd, no mention of THE Goracle. Oh wait, yeah THE “Canadian Auto Workers president”. Lefties come to the rescue of God, Mother and Country, once again.
“Politicians have gotten the green
(AL)
god and now they’re running with it for the next election.”
Via
Instapundit
April 14th.HOW TO DRIVE A HYBRID without looking P.C. I should try that!
It’ll be a cold day in April when I’ll agree with Buzz Harggrave.
Oh, wait a minute, It’s snowing.
For once, this man is talking sense in support of his union membership.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 16 at 12:30 PM • permalinktheft of his hybrid-identifying DMV sticker - a sticker that bestows coveted carpool-lane privileges.
Wouldn’t want any of those non-hybrid Priuses (Prii?) sneaking into the carpool lanes. Next they’ll put special stickers on bicycles so they can use the bike paths.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 04 16 at 01:51 PM • permalinkI note, by way of explanation, that the California program is only allowed to issue a limited number of the stickers, so new Prius owners can’t get them—unless they steal them.
So, the stickers aren’t going to be stuck on Hummers and the like, but on Priuses whose owners aren’t able to get the sticker legally.
Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2007 04 16 at 03:22 PM • permalinkthe California program is only allowed to issue a limited number of the stickers, so new Prius owners can’t get them—unless they steal them.
I see, it’s sort of like taxi medallions. You can’t get one unless you already have one - or know the right people.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 04 16 at 03:42 PM • permalink#14 I could be wrong, but I think every time you start an engine, it shoots out unburned fuel and other smogifying shtoof. I seem to remember hearing that somewhere.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 16 at 06:28 PM • permalinkWhat happened to those “whole of life” carbon costs that showed the Prius to be a poor carbon investment. Its engine has just half the life of a conventional car. The only markets where the Prius works are Japan and Singapore, where government regulation forces cars off the road before they get old. The cars are then exported to third-world markets as well-maintained by cheaper alternatives to new cars. Except the Prius - they are scrapped because the cost of maintenance is too high.
Buying a Prius is a bit like the program that had PET bottles being hauled by truck from Darwin to Adelaide for recycling. The environmental cost was huge but not as huge as the smugness of the greenies who came up with the idea
#27, this is amusing:
When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer - the Prius’s arch nemesis.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 04 17 at 02:30 AM • permalink
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