I've often made the observation that the lefties and greenies who complain about "gas-guzzling" SUVs and shout abuse at people who own large vehicles quite often drive the worst-condition, most-undermaintained, most-overstickered, and least-reliable heaps ever made.
The most recent example were the two nutcases in the Geo Metro I encountered the other day. I was sitting at a light in my nineteen year old XJ6, and these moonbats roll up next to me and start haranguing me about how my old 'gas guzzler' is 'destroying the earth' and how I'm being selfish. Meanwhile, their three cylinder engine is clearly running on *two*, the exhaust clearly resembles swiss cheese more than a contiguous tube, the idle air controller is going nuts because of a huge vacuum leak and one or more of the engine accessories has a bearing that's screaming to be replaced.
Having encountered idiots like this before, I rolled the windows back up and closed the sunroof. Good thing, too; the light turned green and the bestickered-to-the-point-of-no-rearward-visibility Metro lurched forward and gave a very good impression of a mosquito truck or travelling brush fire (massive cloud of oil/fuel smoke). I've seen this same scenario over and over, though usually the moonbats have some FWD GM or Ford POS from the 80s, not a Metro.
Nice, a smog-o-matic being driven by a greenie. Just shows how little they know of the reality of emission reduction.