I'm thinking of the fact that a lot of folks will see this and think "That's a good idea!", right before lecturing me on the evils of fossil fuels, emmisionss, global warming etc. Then it becomes less funny.

Reminds of this day in Indiana. It was 3:30 on a Febuary afternoon. I went to my office "annex", the local Appelbys, to grade papers and write a lecture while enjoying $1 beers and half price appetizers. It was snowing like hell. Pulling into the lot, I ran into this hippy (tie dye and all) who's Prius was stuck in a drift a snow plow had left on his car (purely by by accident I'm sure

). I got out my tow strap and pulled him out. As I said later to a scandalized class: "How many miles per gallon does your Nader mobile get you? Zero, because my 4WD F-150 is towing your ass!". Sad that that's become something of a reflection of many broader truths these days.

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