Greenies and their twisted sense of risk

The American Thinker ^ | 1-22-14 | Thomas Lifson

[afraidfortherepublic]

One of the latest badges of greenie virtue is the mini-car. Supposedly, if you drive one of these contraptions, you demonstrate your concern for Mother Gaia and help diminish the risk that catastrophic global warming will engulf low lying coastal areas and fry the rest of us in temperatures that will be a couple of degrees higher in the next hundred years. In this worldview, people who drive around in SUVs are carelessly risking the very future of humanity.

That's quite a serious risk; never mind that temperatures have failed to rise for the last 16 years as the models at the core of the global warming scare predicted they would.

But is that perceived risk worth cramming yourself into one of these contraptions? And what about the risk of serious injury when one of these tiny vehicles encounters an obstacle? On that point we have genuine experimental data - you know, the kind of data that can be falsified, and which is therefore truly scientific. Cheryl Jensen of The New York Times reports:

[katana]

So let me get this straight ... the marketing of these cars is directed at watermelon leftists who are stupid enough to still be buying into AGW as their blackened extremities rot and fall off during this winter's long spate of sub-zero temperatures. AND they are buying and driving them, thus increasing their chances of conversion into canned meat at their first encounter with Roadway Newtonian Physics.

Is there any downside to all this?

[UCANSEE2]

Is there any downside to all this?

Traffic delays.

[Still Thinking]

Is there any downside to all this?

The exact thought running through my mind as I was reading your summary of the situation.

[Still Thinking]

Traffic delays.In the short term.

[12Gauge687]

Not yet. A Honda Fit rear-ended my Toyota 4Runner just after New Year’s Day. Thanks to the low speed, the only damage was to the Honda from hitting my trailer hitch.

[Texan5]

Living 35 miles from the city, I don’t encounter those little upholstered coffins much unless I’m on the highway-but I do have a trailer hitch on my 4 Runner-for work, of course...

I seem to remember as a kid, there were some of these tiny vehicles that my dad called tennis shoes being touted-by the green people of the day-they disappeared for awhile, so maybe they will do so again...