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bwilson4web, I commnd your well informed response, however you are still missing the point. It was made to sound as if Jeremy C. was only slightly getting the point when he said it's not what you drive but how you drive it, but that's the point all together. any one of my fellow 101 commuters here N. of SF have probably seen the lime Green Gen 2 Prius that weaves in/out of traffic, going full bore. He's a weekly nuisence @ ~4pm-5pm. But for someone like that to say they purchased a Prius to Save the environment is blasphemy at best. I purchased a used honda Accord, and drive it modestly and achieve ~35-40 mpg depending, and although not as magnificent as the Prius, the fact remains that keeping my Used honda on the road and well maintained, means that my carbon footprint is smaller than your Prius... for now. You had to have your Prius built, meaning one more car on the road, mine was pre-existing and gets respectable numbers, and is wel maintained to continue that trend.
I understand bwilson4web that you took my comments as offensive, but you clipped out the important part of my statement, that was if you buy a Prius and drive it as if no matter WHAT you do, you are doing well for the environment, and I can't stand people that call themselves earth friendly, and drive their "Earth frindly" cars as if they can do no harm, Clarkson proved you can take a Prius and turn it into a polluting monster if you don't drive it as intended, I would take offence to the KKK rference if it weren't obvious it was a rebuttle of passion, and it was the only obsurd response in your post.
I like the Prius and I hope they continue to populate our roads, I just hope that they find the right owner, because "It's not what you drive, It's how you drive it"
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