ORIGINAL: zman
Lol, what have I done, didn't mean to insult anyone in particular, I'm just venting for the sole reason that if there is an issue I will stand for, it is for the protection of our enviroment.
It bothers me that alot of people take it lighter than less seriose issues, no enviroment, no roads to enjoy driving your Challenger on. I'm in the middle on this, the Greenies to one side and the ignorant to the other, I practice as much as I can to reduce my carbon footprint, but I still like to spoil myself sometimes also.
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Zman, you are destroying your credibility by attacking people who disagree with you by calling them fools and ignorant as it is a logical fallacy named "attacking the person." You can disagree if you want to but do it without name calling as it violates rule # 2. Also remember that lear4406 is a section moderator and it is not a wise idea to attack moderators no matter what rank they are as it violates rule #13 and we moderators work together as a team (you mess with one of us, you will have to take all of us on).
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The fact of the matter is the so called solutions like hybrids do damage to our environment by the environmentalist's own science. There was one study that found that a Prius does MORE environmental damage due to the battery packs than a Hummer does. The other problem with this religion is the fact that the people who keep whining to us to use public transportation and carpool everywhere or walk, to use one square of toilet paper, and other obsessive compulsive standards turn around and use private jets to get to different locations. Also some of them like everyone's favorite politician drive SUVs in the hybrid versions that get no better mileage than your average car. Also remember this is the same guy who claimed to have invented the Internet which we all know he was lying about that as well. His family were tobacco raisers, so remember that his family has profited off of "damaging our environment." The carbon credit garbage is nothing other than an indulgence for "sins" for this religion. It is a religion as it shares beliefs from pagan religions of the old days and they have just created new buzz world like "theory" to replace unpopular sounding words like "belief."
You also have to remember the same crowd claimed global cooling so they have a tendency to flip-flop on the issue, and I have heard several claims from the same community that the ManBearPig (excuse me "Global Warming") first causes the temperature to increase then later decrease, which is nothing other than a cycle. It is also important to remember that during the similar periods as our temperature went up, Mars went up as well and they don't have SUVs, Factories, or Bovine Flatulating contributing to the issue. It is also important to remember that Volcanic eruptions do far more damage than we can ever do, so our contribution is extremely minimal.
1971Chall, in response to your earlier post about the STi vs. Evo comparison, I'm glad that finally someone else has noticed what I have been saying for years. Although these cars are slightly faster in acceleration and corner better, the issue is that they have less than half the displacement and get the same to worse fuel economy than good old V8s and as we have said before, wi