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Toyota Pruis
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iwishiwasthere
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I love playing with you people, but it just makes me tired when everybody argues.
Go girl!!!!
The one thing I love most about this board is friendly banter.
Go girl!!!!
The one thing I love most about this board is friendly banter.
Smiling JOe
SoWal Expert
That Accord sedan looks more like a Buick from those angles.
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
I love playing with you people, but it just makes me tired when everybody argues.
Go girl!!!!
I just wanted y'all to see Britney trying to be me in her car. (Mine has a black interior and no baby.)
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
Thanks Bob!
Makes more sense than most of the arguments on Sowal and the guy has definitely got the credentials to back it up!
Excerpt:
Robert James Woolsey Jr.-Jim to his friends-isn't your typical Prius driver. Educated at Stanford, Oxford, and Yale, he was facing down the Russians in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the late 1960s before he was out of his 20s. He's held a series of senior government posts; the walls of his office bear signed photographs and messages of thanks from every president since Nixon. In 1993, Bill Clinton made him director of Central Intelligence, giving him control of the CIA's $30-billion annual budget and its network of tens of thousands of agents and a brief to run covert operations against America's enemies, whoever and wherever they might be. His diaries probably read like a Tom Clancy novel.
Since he stepped down from that assignment, he's become one of Washington's most hawkish hawks, agitating early for the removal of Saddam Hussein, pointing a finger at Iraq in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and calling for the bombing of Syria. By rights, Woolsey ought to drive a big, bad Hummer. Instead, he drives a Prius, and he says that if you live in a country dependent on imported oil, it's your patriotic duty to do the same. His argument is simple: It's a bad thing for transport to depend on oil when the great majority of that oil lies in volatile parts of the world whose governments are hostile to the West. Moreover, he argues that, by making the Middle East so wealthy, we're indirectly subsidizing terror. For Woolsey, the cash register at your local gas station is a collection box for Al Qaeda. "We're paying for both sides in this war, and that's not a good long-term strategy," he says. "I have a bumper sticker on the back of my Prius that reads, 'Bin Laden hates this car.'"
Makes more sense than most of the arguments on Sowal and the guy has definitely got the credentials to back it up!
Excerpt:
Robert James Woolsey Jr.-Jim to his friends-isn't your typical Prius driver. Educated at Stanford, Oxford, and Yale, he was facing down the Russians in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the late 1960s before he was out of his 20s. He's held a series of senior government posts; the walls of his office bear signed photographs and messages of thanks from every president since Nixon. In 1993, Bill Clinton made him director of Central Intelligence, giving him control of the CIA's $30-billion annual budget and its network of tens of thousands of agents and a brief to run covert operations against America's enemies, whoever and wherever they might be. His diaries probably read like a Tom Clancy novel.
Since he stepped down from that assignment, he's become one of Washington's most hawkish hawks, agitating early for the removal of Saddam Hussein, pointing a finger at Iraq in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and calling for the bombing of Syria. By rights, Woolsey ought to drive a big, bad Hummer. Instead, he drives a Prius, and he says that if you live in a country dependent on imported oil, it's your patriotic duty to do the same. His argument is simple: It's a bad thing for transport to depend on oil when the great majority of that oil lies in volatile parts of the world whose governments are hostile to the West. Moreover, he argues that, by making the Middle East so wealthy, we're indirectly subsidizing terror. For Woolsey, the cash register at your local gas station is a collection box for Al Qaeda. "We're paying for both sides in this war, and that's not a good long-term strategy," he says. "I have a bumper sticker on the back of my Prius that reads, 'Bin Laden hates this car.'"
Bob
SoWal Insider
Yes, the coupe is much easier on the eyes. The sedan is their sales leader, so they dial back the fun factor sheet metal to produce the everyman mobile. Still, 180 hp 4 cylinder, made in Ohio, top safety specs for around 20k, and you can see why everyone benchmarks this car year after year. If you want fun, the Cooper drop-top is funnnnnnn! Notice in the accord shots, there's duct tape hiding alot of the styling cues/lights
Miss Kitty
Meow
Note to self...don't ask questions about gas saving cars OR guitar lessons on sowal.com. :shock:
Bob
SoWal Insider
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18800305/ NYC Yellow Cabs to go hybrid, forget fuel savings, think of the status.