Drive them if you have them

[2Hybrids]

The following letter to the editor was in the Orlando Sentinel this morning and it just reflected a mentality that burns me up. Can someone help me prepare a response to this? It wouldn't be so bad to me if the guy wasn't from my town.


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR[/b]

Drive them if you have them

March 8, 2006

I get so tired of the constant flap from people on what vehicles "they" say we should be driving. Hummers and large SUVs are not the problem with the oil situation today. We had this same "shortage problem" during the Carter administration, remember?

Gas prices shot over a dollar a gallon, and the public screamed foul. President Carter stated that we needed to establish a committee to explore and develop alternative fuels. Remember what happened next?

All of a sudden, there was plenty of cheap gas.

It's going to be a long time, folks, before we have an automobile that runs on something other than fossil fuels. We can send probes to Mars, put a man on the moon, launch a space station, etc., but we don't have the know-how or technology to build a non-gasoline-burning engine?

That's because the powers that be don't want one -- not yet, anyway.

So to those of you who want those Hummers and big SUVs, I say go for it. As long as you can afford them and can afford the gas for them, you have the right to have what you want in this "free" society, even though there are those who believe we should all be "Stepford" citizens and drive the same cars, live in the same houses and think the same way that "they" do.

Eric Ivansheck

Eustis

[KD6HDX]

Eric,

Try this response, "there are no laws against acting stupid".

There will never be CHEAP GAS again in the USA. Those days are over. My wife and I are just glad that we can save a few bucks at the pump each time we need to fill up. Since we drive 3,000 miles a month, we are finally noticing our monthly fuel bills dropping. Even weasel face bush says that we should drive hybrids. Although I would bet that we will never ever see a weasel driving a hybrid. I have enough money to drive what I want, and what I want is to drive a hybrid to work. If I hit the powerball and bag a million or two, then I would probably drive an SUV that ran on bio diesel, then I could be a bio weasel.....

Dave

05 Prius averaging about 48 MPG. When I slow down, I save more....

GO BIG ED ON AIR AMERICA

[ghostofjk]

What part(s) do you object to?

[etyler88]

I would suggest that you simply ask Eric Ivanshceck to be openminded to newer and better chiocies for cars and trucks as they become available. Eric is correct in that people are free to do what they want and it is my opinion that guilting people into buying high mileage chioces will not work. Only the option of a better product will, such as the Prius.

[brasche]

Capitolist Pig

[2Hybrids]

Originally posted by ghostofjk@Mar 8 2006, 09:22 AM
What part(s) do you object to?

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I object to the whole mentality that there is no problem, we've been there before, and it's just business as usual. That impractical vehicles spewing out tons of pollutants isn't important, when, in fact, it is our god given right as Americans to do so. That reliance on foreign oil isn't anything to be concerned about, especially when Americans are dying for that right.

I've calmed down now and will not respond. He and the likes wouldn't listen anyway. Maybe someone else will respond....

[hobbit]

The guy dug his own hole. By saying "the powers that be don't want
[hybrids] yet, so go out and drive those big SUVs" -- he's saying,
"go ahead and pay through the nose INTO the pockets of those selfame
powers that be". That is what passes for "freedom?!" I wonder if
this assclown takes any deductions on his income tax.
.
_H*

[gjertsen]

Originally posted by etyler88@Mar 8 2006, 09:27 AM
I would suggest that you simply ask Eric Ivanshceck to be openminded to newer and better chiocies for cars and trucks as they become available.  Eric is correct in that people are free to do what they want and it is my opinion that guilting people into buying high mileage chioces will not work.  Only the option of a better product will, such as the Prius.

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well said.

[skruse]

I am amazed at the "live in the here and now" mentality (grasshopper and ant story) - those who neither invest, nor think, nor act long term. The people who brag about ostentatious consumption and addictive affluenza are the first to scream "not fair" when confronted with any kind of limits.

Social irresponsibility has always been with us. A sustainable republic thinks and acts long term.

[geologyrox]

Originally posted by gjertsen@Mar 8 2006, 12:31 PM
well said.

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Agreed.

I seem to recall that said weasel's brother drives a Ford Hybrid - a good move, I think. I dislike Jeb nearly as much as his brother, but I like the purchase, I think it's a good message, even if that's all it is. If my needs were a little different, I might have gotten one myself.

I'm still wishing for a smallish SUV type vehicle, with good ground clearance and a little towing capacity, 4wd would be nice...