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[The Red Zone]

In Britain, transport accounts for about a quarter of all emissions that cause climate change.

Long ago I knew a little poem that went "I think that I shall never see, an air polluter like a tree..."

[I still care]

"Prospective buyers dismissed the stunt as futile. 'They are all a bunch of idiots. This will not change anything,' said one, before driving away in a Range Rover."

Ha!

Actually, my son looked at a Lotus? today that gets 60 mpg. It has a rear engine and a 6 speed manual transmission. It's also very light and small. Seemed a bit like a flying coffin.

I'm sure the environmentalists would find something wrong with it, too.

[Restorer]

A rational person would be forced to admit that there is little logic to suburban Americans and Brits driving around on their freeways in trucks designed for abandoned logging roads.

Minneapolis and Aspen, sure. LA? Hardly.

[SteveMcKing]

FORD???

Gee, I'd sure like to care. But not when they promote gay politics.

Couldn't happen to a better corporation.

[decal]

Did anyone else read the title of the article and imagine Cool Hand Luke, Dragline and the rest of the guys driving up in a prison truck and demand a trade-in?

[ApplegateRanch]

Arrests came after more than two hours of negotiations with officers,

Negotiate what?

Get a cutting torch from the dealer's body shop, and tell them to either give up the keys, or hold very still and grit their teeth...that this may hurt a bit.

[etcetera]

Leave 'em there for 3 or 4 days. No food, water, or bathrooms...

[Myrddin]

They should have taken the vehicles for a 50 mile drive with the idiots attached. Not over 3 miles per hour of course. Just enough to leave a lifetime impression of their monumental stupidity.

[NationSoConceived]

'Land Rovers are less fuel-efficient than cars manufactured more than 80 years ago' - Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace, and fool

1924 Ford Model T Touring edition
(which could be considered an early suv, considering the states of roads at the time.)

Curb Weight 1,650 lbs
M/G 20-25

2005 Land Rover Range Rover

Curb Weight 5379 lbs
M/G 12-16

Working from the bottom of the mileage ranges on each of these vehicles, we calculate the weight moved to M/G ratios for each vehicle.
For the Model T,

1650Lb/(20M/G) = 82.5 LbG/M

For the late model Range Rover,

5379Lb/(12 M/G) = 448.25 LbG/M


As you can see, the weight moved a mile for every gallon of gas is significantly higher (about 5x) for the Range Rover than for the Model T. It works out that the Range Rover is therefore about 5x more fuel-efficient than a car manufactured 80 years earlier, and that Mr. Tindale is emitting excrement from the wrong end.

Of course, what Mr. Tindale meant to say was that the Model T would consume less fuel in taking you from point A to point B. Of course, the Range Rover will do it faster, safer, and more comfortably than the Model T. I leave it to you the consumers to do your own vehicle shopping.


see http://www.seriouswheels.com/1920-1929/1924-Ford-Model-T-Touring.htm , http://www.t-ford.co.uk/car.htm and http://www.automotive.com/2005/12/land-rover/range-rover/compare/ for references.

[R. Scott]

When will they aim their protests at celebrities and their limousines?

[freedomfiter2]

'Land Rovers are less fuel-efficient than cars manufactured more than 80 years ago, and we are asking the government to tax them off the roads,' said Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace, who was present.

Hey, public school teachers are less efficient now than they were 80 years ago. Could we tax them as well? No wait, that's part of the problem already.

[George Smiley]

I'll take "Idiots for $200." Eleven climate change protesters were arrested yesterday after chaining themselves to Land Rovers at the start of a national campaign against 'gas guzzling' four-wheel drive vehicles.

What is "Ford announces special test drive promotion," Alex?

[George Smiley]

I'll take "Idiots for $200."

Eleven climate change protesters were arrested yesterday after chaining themselves to Land Rovers at the start of a national campaign against 'gas guzzling' four-wheel drive vehicles.

What is "Ford announces special test drive promotion," Alex?

[Lazamataz]

Eleven climate change protesters were arrested yesterday after chaining themselves to Land Rovers at the start of a national campaign against 'gas guzzling' four-wheel drive vehicles.

Pepper spray 'em and leave them there.

[TXnMA]

...handcuffed themselves to their steering columns...

Time to fire up the chainsaw for some prime intimidation.