[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ha! There was a car in front of me the other day at a stop light. 1990-ish Ford Escort. The only thing holding it together was rust. It was spewing clouds of black, oily exhaust. And on the bumper? "Dirt Lovng Tree Hugger," a Kerry-Edwards sticker, a Tammy Baldwin sticker, a Feingold sticker, "Save Mother Earth" bumper sticker and one of those old green triangle stickers symbolizing "Ecology Above All."

There was an adult male behind the wheel, not some teen like this was his first beater car.

[ChildOfThe60s]

The only thing holding it together was rust. It was spewing clouds of black, oily exhaust. And on the bumper? "Dirt Lovng Tree Hugger," a Kerry-Edwards sticker, a Tammy Baldwin sticker, a Feingold sticker, "Save Mother Earth" bumper sticker and one of those old green triangle stickers symbolizing "Ecology Above All."

The irony here being that it takes 25 successful, gainfully employed, conservative capitalists driving expensive, well maintained new cars to counterbalance the pollution spewed out by the tree hugger's junk heap.

[driftless]

Before you said adult male, I was thinking that was my wife's daughters car you were talking about. She has most of those stickers, and drives an Escort. By the way, I live in Wisconsin, but she drives here from Minnesota frequently to visit her mother.