[goose1]

would have been funny if their was a hummer convention going on the same time.You guys park over their, oops sorry.

[Highest Authority]

I want to thank these gas saveing people for leaving more for me and my 5 mpg motorhome!

[Looking4Truth]

One version: "I'm soooo jealous of your cool car. I can't get attention in my crap-mobile so I'll rant against what you like."

Another version: "I'm a socialist control freak and until you ride the bus, buy a 'smegway' or 'conform to my views now, dammit!' I'm going to whine until what I want is mine."

Another version: "I'm so freakin' clueless that I forget that the plastic in my car caused the same 'environmental impact' as the plastic in the 'gas guzzling' SUV, or since I'm still driving my own 'shiny metal box' the roads will have to be maintained and improved at the expense of the 'ecosystem', or that if I actually had any conviction at all I would get a horse (NOT!) or a bicycle.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

	Actress Nancy Allen displays the engine of her car during a rally of hybrid car owners demonstarting outside the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show Friday, Jan 3, 2003. The Union of Concerned Scientists issued a report Friday, Jan. 3, 2003, calling on auto manufacturers to fully embrace hybrid technology as a means of boosting fuel efficiency and cutting pollution. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) - Jan 03 1:42 PM ET
	Owners of hybrid cars rally outside the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show early Friday morning, Jan. 3, 2003, in support of a report issued by The Union of Concerned Scientists. The report calls on auto manufacturers to fully embrace hybrid technology as a means of boosting fuel efficiency and cutting pollution. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) - Jan 03 1:39 PM ET

[Jorge]

"It's so peppy," she said. "Every day I drive it, I feel I'm giving something back to the environment and giving something back to myself."

It's still using some gas, which still is polluting the air and causing global warming and contributing to deaths of humans and many other species. It's also requiring additional features that help it save gas but cost more and require extra polluting manufacturing processes..which kill more trees and animals and people.

It's just like you killed them yourself.
So what the hell are you giving back to the environment?

[Fresh Wind]

Owners of slow cars always refer to them as "peppy".

[Feckless]

"There is a demand for fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly vehicles"

Yeah, but those 70 idiots already have them. Why build more that nobody else wants?

[The Raven]

The horse presented a pollution problem in cities -so along comes Henry Ford and the car is born.

Now the car presents pollution problem in cities - so the solution is ....????

Another car???

Don't think so. Not yet, anyway. (last year the solution was that battery operated pogo stick).

[JoeGar]

Actress Nancy Allen traded her Volvo in for a Prius last July.

She will wish she still had the Volvo the first time she attempts to pass a car on a 2-lane road.

[John Jamieson]

"The protest came as the Union of Concerned Scientists released a report concluding that American-made cars and trucks could reach an average of 60 miles per gallon by the end of the next decade by adopting the best hybrid technology."

It's clear that these "scientists" havn't thought much about the pollution and cost of replacing 20 million sets of exotic 100 pound battery packs every year in this country.

[niteowl77]

Poor Nancy Allen... destined to be a cheerleader in perpetuity. Cheerleaders are peppy, though.

It looks like I'm wasting the opportunity to be a caring phony on this fuel saving issue, as I swapped a 4WD pickup for a miniscule hatchback two years ago. I'll have to forego patting myself on the back, since my decision had nothing to do with leisure-class earth worship. I gravitated to the small cars because I found that I enjoyed driving them a lot more than the big stuff, but the increased mileage merely allows me additional money to flush away on something else. Every vehicle is a compromise, and I couldn't care less what my neighbors drive; in a free country, I expect reciprocity.

The procedural benefits of the hybrids haven't risen to the level where I would be willing to put up with one (yet). While styling is not one of my primary concerns anymore, it would also help to make the hybrids less bland/butt-ugly (although the Insight at least pays lip service to aerodnamics). For now, I just wait for the day I can swing a Mini Cooper S or Subaru WRX.

[goldstategop]

Liberals who can afford exotic cars want them rest of us to be dependent on mass public transportation, to bicycle, and to walk. This is so snobbish and typical of them - our new upper class that gets the motorcars and we poor peons jist have to do without you know, to save the environment.

[xm177e2]

The gathering Friday of hybrid car owners from Sacramento to San Diego

Seventy people between all of Sac and Sandy Eggo? Seventy people out of more than half the state of California? That doesn't seem like a huge demand to me...

[Always Right]

Wonder what kind of fossil feul is used to create the energy to charge the batteries in these 'environmentally friendly cars'? These wackos are clueless, unless they want to promote nuclear energy, which none of them do.

[GreenHornet]

Let em' protest.

One of the main themes at this year's LA Auto Show seems to be, in the words of Tim Allen: "MORE POWER!!!". Muscle cars are making a comeback, with the show featuring vehicles such as the revived Pontiac GTO (really a rebadged Holden Monaro from GM's Australian subsidiary). The new GTO will be powered by the Corvette LS1 engine, putting out 340 horses. Dodge is also showing its Dodge Magnum "Sport Wagon" concept, which will go on sale in about a year. This is one mean looking station wagon! The concept (and hopefully the production model) has a 5.7 liter V8 Hemi rated at 430 HP. This comes on the heels of the revived Mercury Maurauder introduced last summer. Auuuughhhh, Auuuuughhhhh AUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Now that's "peppy"!

[PoorMuttly]

She may "feel" that she's "giving something back to the environment," but she's actually just taking less.