Riding High on Hybrids

**TonyPSchaefer** · 10-02-2007, 04:16 PM

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The Toyota Prius … a "gateway drug?" So claims a well-known actor in a new book of celebrity essays, "The Green Book," about the hybrid that hooked him into living more "G." "You know how people say marijuana is a gateway drug? That's sorta what buying a Prius was for me," he says. "I love nature, and I love taking walks on the beach at sunset. And if that makes me sound like Miss February filling out her turn-ons in a Playboy bio, so be it."

Tony Schaefer, one of the founders of the Chicago Prius Club, uses the same analogy when he describes how the Prius turned him from an unaware Buick Regal owner — "Emissions? Didn't care. Mileage? Didn't care" — into a "raving, evangelical environmentalist" with a bumper sticker of a stick-figure man blowing his brains out with a gas nozzle.[/b]

Full Article => http://www.gliving.tv/vehicles/riding-high...brids/#more-112

Mentioned:
- Wayne Mitchell
- Wayne Gerdes
- PriusChat
- Hybridfest
- Chicago Prius Group
- Lesser-known people: Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bill Maher

A special nod to Darrell whose avatar inspired the Petrocide sticker.

Cheap! · 10-02-2007, 04:23 PM

FAR OUT MAN.

orracle · 10-02-2007, 04:32 PM

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- Lesser-known people: Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bill Maher

A special nod to Darrell whose avatar inspired the Petrocide sticker.
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Can I have your autograph???

Cheap! · 10-02-2007, 04:36 PM

When your ready for the PHEV hard stuff give me a call. The first KW is always free.

**Tideland Prius** · 10-02-2007, 04:39 PM

hey... what happened to my response? or rather.. the original thread?

Cheap! · 10-02-2007, 04:42 PM

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hey... what happened to my response? or rather.. the original thread?
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Maybe, you're trip'n?

**TonyPSchaefer** · 10-02-2007, 04:43 PM

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hey... what happened to my response? or rather.. the original thread? [/b]

I was just about to PM you. The original posting when hywire and I ended up double-posting. You and Cheap! posted at the same time but in each thread. The two threads refused to merge so I ended up deleting one. I chose yours because after looking at the post I noticed that some of the coding was screwed up.

**Tideland Prius** · 10-02-2007, 04:46 PM

ohh I see

lol... I didn't merge the other two threads I found that were repeated. I just gave the link to the current thread since the posts were not worth merging (IOW, they gave the same link)

FireEngineer · 10-03-2007, 02:07 PM

You know my tux accessories did match my Salsa Red Prius.

Wayne

galaxee · 10-03-2007, 02:41 PM

i didn't inhale, i swear it.

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10-02-2007, 04:23 PM	#2
Cheap! Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,157 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 4	FAR OUT MAN.

10-02-2007, 04:36 PM	#4
Cheap! Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,157 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 4	When your ready for the PHEV hard stuff give me a call. The first KW is always free.

10-02-2007, 04:39 PM	#5
Tideland Prius Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 13,932 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: B Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 11	hey... what happened to my response? or rather.. the original thread?

10-02-2007, 04:46 PM	#8
Tideland Prius Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 13,932 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: B Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 11	ohh I see lol... I didn't merge the other two threads I found that were repeated. I just gave the link to the current thread since the posts were not worth merging (IOW, they gave the same link)

10-03-2007, 02:07 PM	#9
FireEngineer Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: SW-Side of Chicago, IL Posts: 792 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #6 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 4	You know my tux accessories did match my Salsa Red Prius. Wayne

10-03-2007, 02:41 PM	#10
galaxee running WOT until out of fuel Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: central NC/ western WI Posts: 9,081 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #5 Nominated 5 Times in 3 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 21	i didn't inhale, i swear it.