Post by jimp on Nov 23, 2009 16:24:08 GMT
I am getting sick and tired of all the ignorant and arrogant( I wanted to call them stupid) people out there that think they are environmentalist. On the way home last night they almost killed me. I was driving in the right hand lane between two trucks going the legal 70 mph. All of a sudden the lead truck changed lanes, I could not because of traffic and the following truck almost rear ended me. After I relaxed a little I noticed the hybrid I was following had a stupid bumper sticked that informed me that he was saving the planet by driving 55 mph. As I pasted, I used my horn and he used his finger. The shame of all this is that I drive a CNG car, you know economically it currently gets over 66 mpg and environmentally it gets over 55 mpg without having to mine heavy metals in Canada to ship to China to refine only to be shipped to UK to be made into batteries to be sent to Japan to be shipped to the US so that he could get his 45 mpg. I am not an environmentalist and feel insulted when people think I am. But I do drive a clean car, have planted over 1000 trees, have been using CF for over 10 years, my house is insulated to well over current energy saving code ( R 60) and before I retired my job was to reduce the emissions from the local power plant. What have they done, change to CF and try to tell me to do the same, been there and done that a long time ago get off that stupid horse. Oh by the way I believe that all the AGW is political not environmental and the people that follow it belong to the "environmentalist" category. Commits?