(Michelle Malkin) Driving Miss Arianna (FreeRepublic mentioned!)

Michelle Malkin dot com ^ | 9-17-05 | Malkin

[doug from upland]

"ARIANNA DOESN'T FEEL LIKE SHE HAS ANYTHING TO ADD"

[RonDog]

MR. KABC WEBSITE HAS GREAT ARIANNA QUOTES

From www.mrkabc.com:

Arianna Supports Terrorism? (09/16/05) "Oil money supports some terrible things. What kind of mileage does your SUV get?"      - The ad campaign launched by Arianna's 'The Detroit Project'. Read The Article "giving up our SUVs... we can all make simple adjustments to wean our country from the foreign oil teat, even if our leaders are too dazed by the energy and auto industry lobbies to guide us."      - Arianna's November 14th, 2001 column "Support Our Troops. Dump That SUV." Read The Article "High-living celebs tie SUV owners to terror" Read The Article "Three of the four co-founders of The Detroit Project drive hybrid vehicles, and the fourth has ordered a hybrid vehicle and is waiting for it to be delivered."      - Letter written by Arianna to the Washington Post 'setting the record straight that she doesn't ride in gas guzzling SUVs.' Read The Article "S.U.V. Owners Support Terrorists" Read The Article

Way to go, DOUG from UPLAND!!!

[doug from upland]

(thanks for this from another thread)

To: doug from upland
That's a 95-01 Suburban (or Yukon XL, depending on the year). It is a 4WD version (as evidenced by the wheels, the 2WD version had straight spokes). It gets around 8-10mpg in the city, and not much more than that on the highway. It has, most likely, a 5.4 or 5.7liter V-8, though it could have a 7.4 liter, in which case drop the mileage even more (6-8 city, 10-11 hwy).

32 posted on 09/12/2005 9:47:50 AM PDT by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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[Pharmboy]

Nicely done, DFU. She's a great combo: smart, gorgeous and with backbone.

[doug from upland]

This is plain weird. She doesn't just have her arm around Larry David, she is feeling him up.

[RonDog]

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[doug from upland]

What Would Arianna Drive?
Her preachy new crusade against SUVs.
By Rob Walker
Posted Monday, Jan. 13, 2003, at 9:13 AM PT



It's one thing for a mass-market product to be attacked by a religious group. Or to be mocked by Hollywood crusaders. But to get it from both sides? That's not easy, so congratulations sport utility vehicle owners and manufacturers: You are the target of the most comprehensive anti-marketing effort in recent memory. Last year a Christian group called the Evangelical Environmental Network came out with an anti-gas-guzzling spot that asked, "What would Jesus drive?" And now comes a salvo that has gotten even more attention: Marginal pundit Arianna Huffington and friends, calling themselves the Detroit Project, have put together an ad that parodies an earlier government campaign linking drugs and terror; their spot says it's SUVs that fund al-Qaida. This is certainly a provocative gambit, but how successful is it? The two ads were slated to run Sunday, Jan. 12, in several major markets, and you can see them here, on the Detroit Project site.

[doug from upland]

Rage Against the Machine
Appeared on the Tech Central Station website at www.techcentralstation.com

Author(s):
Kenneth Green, Director, Risk and Environment Studies, The Fraser Institute

Email: keng@fraserinstitute.ca

Release Date : February 18, 2003

The war on SUV owners has reached a fever pitch of late, with ad campaigns, columnists, and star-studded advertorials raging against the machines.

Now, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and far be it from me to presume that celebrities are too empty-headed to actually understand complicated environmental issues like global warming. Let’s assume that actresses like Barbra Streisand, and columnists like Arianna Huffington have studied the theory of global warming, understand the relative impacts of different human activities on the climate, know the different sources and warming potentials of the different greenhouse gases, know the extent to which different cars and lifestyle choices change the production of those gases, and understand the many complex effects that proposed greenhouse gas control policies (like the Kyoto Protocol) would have on people’s lives.

But just in case they haven’t, let’s review a few of the arguments that our celebrities are raising against SUVs, along with the hypocrisies involved in their campaign.

First, we’re told, SUVs are gas guzzlers, and they pollute more than regular cars in terms of both traditional pollutants, and greenhouse gas emissions. True, SUVs aren’t known for their gas mileage. According to the US EPA (www.fueleconomy.gov) the Chevy Blazer gets 15 mpg City / 19 mpg Highway, while the Cadillac Escalade gets a mediocre 12/16.

But if we’re supposed to hate SUV owners for their vehicular fuel guzzling, shouldn’t we also hate the drivers of the cars that glitzy celebrities like to see and be seen in? The little Ferrari Spider, for example, gets only 11 mpg in the city, and 16 on the highway. The Lamborghini Murcielago, another sexy runabout gets only 9 mpg in the city, and 13 on the highway. And then there’s the Cadillac limo that stars like to tour around in (14/22), and what about the Bentleys (10/14)?

By the Numbers

Now, here’s a bit of math that even Barbra Streisand might follow.

Scenario one: SUV villain John Q. Moviegoer wants to take his wife, his 2 kids, and their 2 friends to see Barbra’s latest movie. They pile in their Ford Expedition (15/19) and drive 2.5 miles to the theatre, and 2.5 miles home. How much fuel do they use? Let’s assume it’s all city driving, so the 5 mile round trip consumes one-third of a gallon of gasoline. Now, there are 6 people in the SUV, and they travel 5 miles, so that’s 30 person-miles of travel on a third of a gallon of gas. If they routinely drove the car with 6 people in it, that would make an average of 90 person-miles per gallon of gas.

Scenario two: “Good, Honda Civic (29/38) owning citizen John Q. Moviegoer wants to take his wife, his 2 kids, and their 2 friends to see Barbra’s latest movie. Since they have too many people, they have to take two cars. Let’s assume they’re both Civics. They drive 5 miles each, which is about 1/6 of a gallon of gas, but of course, there are two cars, so that’s…lookie there! One-third of a gallon of gas, same as the Expedition! Of course, with two cars instead of one, they increase traffic congestion; require two parking spots instead of one (increasing the need for larger parking lots and contributing to ‘sprawl’); are twice as likely to be involved in an accident (that risk is dependent on the number of vehicles and miles driven); pay more insurance; and are more likely to be hurt in a serious accident. Roughly the same amount of greenhouse gases are emitted in the two scenarios since that’s a function of the amount of fuel used, but the traditional pollutant emissions are probably higher in the second scenario: those pollutants are mostly generated during the cold start and hot soak of an engine, and the Civic drivers are starting up and shutting down two engines rather than one.

Then there’s scenario three, which we’ll leave as an exercise for the student: Barbra’s friend Arianna wants to drive from her 9,000 square foot home in Brentwood with her newest beau and four children to watch Barbra’s movie in a private theatre at Babs’ old four-house, 32-acre “compound” in Malibu, so if they drive 15 miles each way, with one adult and two kids per Ferrari…

Home is Where You...

Speaking of 9,000 square-foot homes…greenhouse gas emissions are, first and foremost about energy use. Surely, thoughtful environmental advocates who urge us to think about life-cycle analysis and holistic frameworks when it comes to buying refrigerators aren’t unaware that their housing choices result in more energy use?

Let’s say that John Q. Moviegoer owns a 2,000 square foot house in the suburbs (the average for an American house, according to the National Association of Home Builders). According to the Rocky Mountain Institute, carbon dioxide emissions from his average US home, with 2.5 residents is about 11.6 tons per year. Arianna Huffington owns a 9,000 square foot home in Brentwood, which puts out at least 4.5 times the greenhouse gases of John Moviegoer’s house on an annual basis, but probably far more when you include the swimming pools, spas, and so forth. But of course, that’s for a different campaign: “What kind of palace would Jesus live in if he were a celebrity?”

But why bother rebutting the enviro-hypocrisy of celebrities? Who cares what they say or do? Well, politicians care, and that’s the problem. When campaigns like this get into gear and change the climate of opinion, it opens the door to new regulatory approaches that go beyond moral suasion, and right over into coercive restrictions on the choice and autonomy of the general public. It won’t be celebrities who have to struggle to pay for higher priced family cars, or higher priced electricity in a greenhouse gas constrained world, it’ll be John Q. Moviegoer who bears the brunt of ill-founded policies promoted by celebrities who are speaking out of both sides of their mouths.

[Balding_Eagle]

I know a Bush-hating Sierra Club member who swallows everything NPR says and subscribes to Nation magazine.

Does he carpool? Take the bus to work? Ride his bike? Drive a hybrid or even an economy car?

Nope. He drives a Ford diesel dually. A Kings Ranch Ford diesel dually.

Over at the DUmmie site they are always tallking about how driving a big vehicle (by men) is to compensate for a small 'manhood'

In the case of the hypocrites, like the one you pointed out, that really could be the case.

Almost makes me pity him.

Almost.

[RonDog]

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[doug from upland]

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[RonDog]

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[Larry Lucido]

character is doing what you should do when others aren't watching libs do the opposite

Character: Liberals have none of it, in spades.

[doug from upland]

Driver helping Arianna get into the vehicle. He did not force her into it at gunpoint. She was not kidnapped. She entered it willingly.
About 40 yards directly behind her were about a dozen cabs. The vehicle was parked in front of the other Moscone center building
where they were having the dental convention. Perhaps she should have spoken at that one, then there would not be this controversy.

[doug from upland]

I was offered a ticket to hear this disgusting POS. No thanks. I understand that it was a Bush-bashing and F-bomb extravaganza.

[Muzzle_em]

Yet I'm sure he bit-hes regularly about the SUVs on the road!

[Muzzle_em]

Just because she OWNS a Prius doesn't mean that she drives it regularly. I'm sure she might drive it for photo ops. Perhaps she drives it to and from the airport before boarding a private jet which just happens to be going where she wants to go, lol.
What a TYPICAL, LIBERAL, HYPOCRITE!!!

[A CA Guy]

Ah, credit by a notionally read article.

Good going Doug, and your show on the radio was very good as well.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the kind words.

INTERVIEW WITH LAURIE DAVID

After signing on as a member of the board of trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1999, David began holding influential eco-salons in her home to educate the leading lights of Hollywood, persuading them to open both their minds and their pocketbooks. She has since helped to raise millions of dollars for green organizations and convinced everyone from Tom Hanks to Jack Black to hoist the environmental cause up the flagpole of mega-stardom. And she has worked to promote fuel efficiency among the masses by producing catchy anti-SUV ads for the Detroit Project, a campaign she cofounded with Arianna Huffington.

Still, David is the first to admit that her mainstream brand of environmentalism does not require sacrificing a Hollywood standard of living. Though she wouldn't be caught dead driving anything with lower gas mileage than a Prius, she offers no apologies for her super-sized house, her extensive wardrobe, or her frequent-flyer lifestyle. It's time, she says, for environmentalism to lose its purer-than-thou attitude.

[doug from upland]

Are they fanatics or fools?