I’ve enjoyed my Prius, but owning one does cause people to make assumptions about you. I don’t have a Bush-Cheney sticker on my Prius, but one day a few months ago my wife and I swapped vehicles for the day. My wife’s minivan does have a B-C ‘04 sticker (well, it did until I peeled it off during the shamnesty debate in the Senate). It was fun to see the faces of a couple of left-leaning female co-workers when they saw the sticker.
I have a long commute (live in an evil suburb, of course), so it’s about the money to me. The old truck got about 22 mpg, the Prius has gotten right at 49.5 for its first 22,000 miles.
A “Nuke Gay Whales” bumper sticker might do the trick.