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This is one of the top stories of today (Trashed Hummer Article) that is about vandals in Washington D.C. that trashed a new Hummer. Since I’ve been on my high horse lately about people needlessly driving enormous trucks just to get to work or pick up the kids I thought I would comment on this today.

I cannot condone violence in any form, but this does make a very bold statement to the citizens of our country and auto manufacturers. People have been silently pissed off at the excess we continue to see years after 9/11 and the never ending Iraq war for oil. Now some people are voicing their opinions in a very negative and violent way. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t go around kicking white man ass because he knew that would defeat the purpose and set a bad example. If these eco terrorists want to make a point they should invite the poor owner of the Hummer out for a beer and have an open debate where he might be educated and persuaded to change his mind and actions instead.

Let’s face it… the guy is just ignorant. He’s 32 years old and still lives with his mother. He could afford to move out or even go back to college had he not been such an idiot and purchased a $40k + gas guzzling, environment killing monstrosity. To make it worse, he immediately sent it into the shop to spend thousands more on new tires, wheels and a lift kit so that he could intentionally reduce the vehicles efficiency all for the sake of vanity. What a f$%&ing moron!

So, while he’s certainly deserving, violence was not the right way to tell this man he’s a member of the genetic cesspool. Cultural change requires education of the masses and that simply takes time. If you want to make an impact you should be an example to others by making the correct decisions for you and your family. Besides, this idiot is already paying for his bad decisions… remember? He lives with his mother at 32, just wasted all his earnings on a rapidly depreciable asset, he probably has no insurance, and without a girlfriend he gets off on still shots of Uncle Kracker in the back of his Hummer. No eco vandals necessary.

The news headline today is “trucks continue to dominate U.S. auto sales”.

1. Ford F-Series 355,438
2. Chevrolet Silverado 310,896

The two top spots go to large, wasteful, poorly engineered, U.S. made monstrosities that are being purchased by eighteen wheeler wannabes that don’t have enough sense to know that vehicles are the biggest waste of money that you can buy and are even more damaging to our environment. What’s worse is that the buyers are often the same gun toting redneck a-holes that backed the war in Iraq from the beginning and fell for all the lies and deception that really point to a long standing war for oil that is only being exacerbated by their poor financial and ecological decisions.

Are you not listening? Al Gore has been bulking up and he’s coming over to kick your ass.

It’s time for change.

If you don’t need a pickup truck on a regular basis, don’t buy one! Do you really need a Ford Excursion to haul around your two kids and groceries? Do you need an F-350 to occasionally pick up some crap at home Depot? Do you get 8 miles to the gallon on your drive to work? Did you pay in excess of $40k for that beastmaster of a vehicle that won’t even fit in your garage? Did you offset putting money into your kids’ 529 college savings plan because you “had” to buy your truck?

Well then, you are an a-hole. Welcome to America. It doesn’t surprise me why other countries have such a bad impression of us.

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