No, because he’s got to look PRESIDENTIAL. He was really elected, you know, so he gets a certain amount of offset for acting like the President he really is.

The Prius is more environmentally harmful than a hummer.  Apparently NASA conducts test for lunar rovers around the plent that refines the nickel in Canada because everything around it has been killed off.

Bet he jumped into a private jet too didn’t he.

I thought this was an interesting read, might reduce some of the smug emissions.

Edmunds Linky

2008 EPA testing changes

Hybrids take the biggest hit
Taken together, the higher speeds, use of air-conditioning, hot and cold temperatures and more aggressive acceleration and braking will bring 2008 ratings down. According to the EPA, city ratings will drop about 12 percent, with some losing as much as 30 percent. Highway ratings should fall an average of 8 percent, but could drop by up to 25 percent.

Ironically, smaller cars oriented toward fuel economy take the biggest hit, with hybrids drawing the shortest of all straws. Why? Assuming that the fuel economy on both vehicles drops the same percentage, a car that gets 40 mpg will lose more actual miles per gallon than one rated at 14 mpg. Also, smaller-engine cars have to work harder to accelerate more swiftly, particularly with the air-conditioner on.

For hybrids it can be worse, as the additional demand caused by air-conditioner use, strong acceleration or high-speed driving reduces the amount of electric-only operation. And as you might expect, more fuel is consumed whenever the gasoline engine is required to power up.

On the braking side, the old test’s mild deceleration rates allowed hybrid cars’ regenerative braking systems to absorb more energy and store it in the batteries. The sharper deceleration rates now specified require more liberal use of the brake pedal, leaving less braking energy for the regenerative system to capture.

I heard a bit of Algore today and was just wanted to crawl through my radio and smack his smug face. Fock me this man makes me angry. His attitude that the rest of us are uneducated boobs, along with his air of total superiority makes my sphincter ache.

“I can own a 20 bedroom mansion that uses in a month 20 times the amount electricity a normal family uses in a year, but YOU need to cut back your carbon foot print.  After all, we have to think of the children”

Have to end there, as the rest of my post will just be the expletives.

The Prius is more environmentally harmful than a hummer.

Got a link for any info on that?  Ive never heard that before.

I dont think you could expect Gore to get into a hybrid carservice vehicle… but it is a great idea for a business though!  Interesting.

Up4: take your pick.  The theory is that counting total energy expended over the lifetime of the vehicle, including manufacture and disposal, the Hummer does less damage.  Which makes sense when you factor everything in, and consider that the Prius is still new technology.  20 years from now it may be a very different story of course.

Oh, as for the car service thing...sure...but why can’t he be driven in a mid-sized sedan with a diesel engine?  Or a freaking six cylinder?  Why a Town Car?  I know you can ask for smaller cars from any decent car service in any major city.  Why wouldn’t Uncle Al explore every possible option to make sure he wasn’t just “offsetting” but actually REDUCING his energy consumption?

Because he’s a Goracious (Christ I’m witty) consumer and he has no intention of changing his lifestyle.

See, Gore asked each of us to change our lives.  He hasn’t changed a god-damned thing though, except to fake up some carbon offset bullshit to alleviate his liberal guilt.

If he changes, I’ll consider listening.  Until then, he can fuck off.  Preach to the choir, no one else is listening.

The Deadly Prius

That’s an interesting read on the differences between the Prius and Hummer.

So reasons to own a Prius.  1. In the long run its cheaper than other cars for the consumer.  True only if you own the car for a decade.  I doubt most of the smug egotistical shits in the world that buy a car like that actually keep a car that long.  2.  Its more environmentally friendly than other cars.  Well as you can read, that’s just not true.

Because he’s a Goracious (Christ I’m witty) consumer and he has no intention of changing his lifestyle.

Ain’t that the Convenient Truth

Thanks Jim, Ill learn to use that Google thing one day :)

Interesting stuff.  I do mainly highway driving, and have always been skeptical of a hybrid actually saving me anything.  Just bought a new (to me) car on Tuesday… now I feel even better about it!  Damn I love my new car!!!

I put climate change in the same category as the existence of God.  Im not sure what going on in either case.  My common sense tells me that putting polution into the air should have consequences at some point.  What those are, I dont know.

Sounds like Gore made a good move by not taking a Hybrid! 

Interesting about the Hummer though.  But Ill still never buy one. Godammn are those things ugly.  The H2 and H3 anyway.  Still kinda like the original.  And they are fun to drive.  Slowly.

Hmmmm… maybe Ill go for a drive now!

I don’t get the H2 and H3 either.  They’re Ford Explorers with a different body style.  Just buy an explorer.

The original is a beast, and ridiculous on every level, but I’d sure love to be rich enough...it;d be my backup rock-climber.

If I were rich I’d have a fully tricked-out Wrangler to climb rocks, a monstered Suburban to mudbog in, and a hummer 1 as backup to both.  :)

Im not an SUV kinda guy.  My wife is.  I like dodgin and weavin through traffic.  I have to admit, her Jeeps been fun in the winter though.  Dont have to shovel out a parking spot!  And my friend is a Land Cruiser freak.  Those things are fun.  But Im all about the Japanese cars though.  Just drove my Altima into the ground with 390k on it, and got myself a Maxima.  The only American car I was considering was a Mazda Speed 6.  My friend just got one… WOW.  If you get a chance, take one out for a drive.

This excuse that he purchases carbon credits is completely retarded as well.

Essentially, he won’t live up to his preachings, so he pays someone else to do it for him. What a fucking hero.

This excuse that he purchases carbon credits is completely retarded as well.

Essentially, he won’t live up to his preachings, so he pays someone else to do it for him. What a fucking hero.

Oh you don’t know?  He doesn’t pay someone else.  He pays himself.  The group that he purchases carbon credits from is one that he started.

A local radio talk show host put it best about the carbon credits.  He called it “pollution absolution”.  I like that phrase, think I’ll use it every time I hear “carbon credits”.  :)

You know if Gore actually cared he would reduce all his usages to that of a normal american.  You know like not having a natural gas heated pool that uses $500/month.  He could continue contributing carbon credits but on top of what he’s already giving he could he’d now have all that extra cash from the difference he could give.

But that’s like expecting Ted Kennedy to pay the amount of taxes he should actually pay.  Party of the common man my ass.