excogitate that moment.

[gfrancie]

Today I saw a car with a bumper sticker that supported the vegetarian lifestyle. I think what made the moment kind of amusing was the fact that the car was a Ford Explorer SUV.

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[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

maybe it was a rich farmer. Or a CIA undercover agent.

[tyrven.livejournal.com]

I suspect the latter.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I did note a small union jack bumper sticker on the back of the car as well.
I did also notice that he had a MS parking permit hanging from the mirror and the family in the car was white.
In the back of the ford explorer I noted a garden hose and some plants.

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

MS...multiple Schelorsis?

a britt?? god,

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Microsoft.

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

AHA

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

People around here always call it MS.

[tyrven.livejournal.com]

Well, there are other benefits to vegetarianism besides environmental impact or general humanitarian and animal rights ethics. But yeah. I find it amusing when I see Greenpeace stickers on VW buses that are spewing ungodly amounts of pollutants into the air (since many of them fall before the emmission standards kicked in).

[aredridel.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, by not buying a new vehicle, they save ten times the pollution they put out.

What's amazing is the waste it makes to make a new vehicle.

[tyrven.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting point. I wonder what the break-even point is for that. I also wonder what the conversation/upgrade cost would be to make an older vehicle more environmentally friendly. We expect corporations to shoulder this cost for their old coal factories but we're not willing to do it for our cars.

[aredridel.livejournal.com]

I've heard that the energy cost to manufacture a vehicle is about equal to its energy consumption over its lifetime. I don't know how accurate that is.

The difference is, pollution to manufacture is in Mexico City. The pollution from driving is in Anytown, USA. We care more about one than the other, sadly.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[far-gone.livejournal.com]

My favorite bumper sticker in the year 2000 had a triangle and on the three points and caption it said:
Cheap Gas ---- SUVs ---- Alaskan Wilderness
--------- Pick Two -------

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

heh. I kind of like that.

[(Anonymous)]

when my first husband and i split, he announced that he would then start being a vegetarian(i had not been accommodating to this wish), but that he was also going to start smoking. i never did understand that.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
That is like when we see kids who smoke and ride bicycles at the same time.

[abadman.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was a fAtkins disciple who loves to gorge himself on vegetarians.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Wishful thinking.