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Andy Gee wrote:
What works best, of course, is a $100 East Village Special flying past a hopelessly stuck $60,000 Escalade. Yup. Even in my small city I love cruising around town on my bike during festivals and parades. While cars are bumper to bumper trying find a place to pay $5 to park, I just ride right up to where the action is and lock up and I'm there. When bikes are faster than cars, that's a great thing... |
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I heard this on NPR today. I'm not sure why but I found it humorous.
It seems that in the St. Germain des Pres district of Paris environmentalists are protesting the presence of monster SUVs by letting the air out of the tires. They then leave a pamphlet on the windshield explaining their motives. Here is a link to today's show (September 13th): http://theworld.org/latesteditions/09/20050913.shtml You can listen to the entire show or scroll to the bottom and click on the "Geo Answer Interview". |
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oups.com: I heard this on NPR today. I'm not sure why but I found it humorous. It seems that in the St. Germain des Pres district of Paris environmentalists are protesting the presence of monster SUVs by letting the air out of the tires. They then leave a pamphlet on the windshield explaining their motives. Let me say that I've considered every possible protest against SUVs in the city and rejected anything that could be considered "violence" or anything that could actually inconvenience an SUV owner -- who am I to judge whether or not a particular SUV is or is not a good solution for that driver? What I find works second best is the fake ticket thing for SUVs actually blocking bike lanes. No damage, lots of education and thought. What works best, of course, is a $100 East Village Special flying past a hopelessly stuck $60,000 Escalade. --ag |
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While SUV's get really bad press I imagine that in fact SUV's and pick
ups are the vehicles of choice for many environmentalists. While tooling around central Paris or even downtown Chicago in an 6 mpg Hummer is pretty sick, I think that many who consider themselves environmentalists are involved in the types of outdoor activites for which high clearance and 4wd are pretty important. For myself I do a lot of back country hiking and rock climbing. Many of the mountain roads that I use would be unpassable in a car. I will tell you that my SUV does a lot less damage to roads and is a lot quieter than the more fuel efficinet ATV's that wreak havoc in some of these areas. To me the culprits are not the folks that use these vehicles for legitimate poor road and off road purposes but the manufactureres who seemingly purposely make them less efficient than they could. And of course the folks that buy giant SUV's and trucks but have no need for them other than style are nowpaying an increasing "tax" in terms of fuel costs. My guess is that this will be self correcting and "city Hummers" will be a minor issue over time. |
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13 Sep 2005 15:03:19 -0700,
.com, " wrote: It seems that in the St. Germain des Pres district of Paris environmentalists are protesting the presence of monster SUVs by letting the air out of the tires. Were I a Parisian driver, I imagine that by now I'd have done far worse than letting air out of tires. In Paris, parking is a contact sport. You often find a space that's almost large enough to park in so you shove the cars ahead and behind until your car fits. Cars are most wisely left parked in 'neutral' with the parking brake set. The bumper heights of SUV don't facilitate this method of parking. -- zk |
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" writes:
I heard this on NPR today. I'm not sure why but I found it humorous. It seems that in the St. Germain des Pres district of Paris environmentalists are protesting the presence of monster SUVs by letting the air out of the tires. They then leave a pamphlet on the windshield explaining their motives. So potentially someone in an emergency situation might run out to his vehicle and be unable to get to the hospital, or his parents' home, or his kids' school, or whatever. Yeah, that's really taking the moral high ground. Owners of SUVs already pay for their folly: they have to feed their behemoths with loads of gas whereas I haven't had a fill-up in weeks--and most days get to work on food power anyway:-) -- Robert Uhl http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl It's actually nice working on a totally doomed project. There is none of the anxiety of dealing with `What if it goes wrong.' There is none of the building up of expectations like `Damn, it will be cool if we pull this off.' Just calm understanding that soon we will be told to bend over. --Wayne Pascoe |
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gds wrote:
While SUV's get really bad press I imagine that in fact SUV's and pick ups are the vehicles of choice for many environmentalists. Even if that were true, in this day an age "environmentalists" are a small slice of the population to worry about. Besides we .. I mean THEY, they have Priuses now. FWIW, I can relate to a 4x4 being used up in the mountains, on trails, etc., but it's sad that the SUV thing continues down here in the beautifully paved streets of Orange County, California. I think I saw about six Hummers, detailed and highly waxed, on my short walk today. That's the most bizarre thing ... that the "profile" is to have a highly waxed Hummer that never goes off-road. It is a demonstration of conspicuous consumption in its purest form. "the spokesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. 'We don't want SUVs to be seen as a sign of wealth, but something that is associated with an imbecile.'" Yeah, I'd say we are there. Anti-science imbeciles who have a religous disbelief in global warming perhaps. |
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gds wrote: While SUV's get really bad press I imagine that in fact SUV's and pick ups are the vehicles of choice for many environmentalists. Even if that were true, in this day an age "environmentalists" are a small slice of the population to worry about. Besides we .. I mean THEY, they have Priuses now. FWIW, I can relate to a 4x4 being used up in the mountains, on trails, etc., but it's sad that the SUV thing continues down here in the beautifully paved streets of Orange County, California. I think I saw about six Hummers, detailed and highly waxed, on my short walk today. That's the most bizarre thing ... that the "profile" is to have a highly waxed Hummer that never goes off-road. It is a demonstration of conspicuous consumption in its purest form. "the spokesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. 'We don't want SUVs to be seen as a sign of wealth, but something that is associated with an imbecile.'" Yeah, I'd say we are there. Anti-science imbeciles who have a religous disbelief in global warming perhaps. |
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Sorry for the double post. I gave the first about a half hour before
firing the second ... and then they both popped through. I issued a cancel on the one, but I don't think cancels are honored as well as they were in the good old days. Sorry again. |
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" wrote in message oups.com... I heard this on NPR today. I'm not sure why but I found it humorous. It seems that in the St. Germain des Pres district of Paris environmentalists are protesting the presence of monster SUVs by letting the air out of the tires. They then leave a pamphlet on the windshield explaining their motives. Letting the air out is a bit much. There are anti-SUV bumper stickers, but I think these magnetic ones on eBay are funnier. http://tinyurl.com/cmk97 Sticking on the one that says "F*ck You Cop" should be good for a laugh. |
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