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Old Aug 31, 2007 | 10:17 AM
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HA! Classic stuff. I guess the Prius & whatever other electric cars have one thing about them that is pretty hard on the environment. The big huge batteries are not easily disposed of. I think you can bury them and grow battery trees.

How ironic is that?
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 10:19 AM
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CD, you beat me by 1 minute. Nice.
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 10:44 AM
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Get a plate number off of a Prius and report it.
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 10:56 AM
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From the news.....Report a moose of farting....


Norway: Researchers at the technical university in Trondheim have discovered that the moose, the country's national symbol, is a major contributor to greenhouse emissions. Annually, one moose produces greenhouse gas equal to 13,000 km of car travel.

Lower snowfalls in Norway have altered the food available to the animals and as a result they produce more wind and the population is growing. Requests have been made for an increase in hunting quotas to keep emissions under control.

"To put it into perspective, the return flight from Oslo to Santiago in Chile leaves a carbon footprint of 880 kilos. Shoot a moose and you have saved the equivalent of two long-haul flights," said biologist Reidar Andersen.
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 11:16 AM
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as for the Moose..... BUAHAHAHAAA!!!!!



As for the CA DMV??? Having the public report smoking vehicles is NOTHING.... CA has put in sensors and cameras along its highways that detect gross polluting vehicles and RECORD their License Plate AND driver Identity (pics). It was an experiment that has been broadened now to put more cameras up and also offer incentives to fix or replace the vehicle. As for the moment, it does not mail tickets.... but Im sure that will change in the future.

Link: http://thenewspaper.com/news/19/1941.asp dated 8-29-07.
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 01:15 PM
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Texas has the same thing. Been around awhile and I can honestly say that I have used it on a couple occasions back when my topless jeep was my daily driver. None of my reports were for diesels, just cars that have been beat to hell and smoke alot.

http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/implemen...gvehicles.html


It doesnt really do anything. They just send a letter out to the owner. They dont actually do any research or enforce it.
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 01:28 PM
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Too bad the BIG BROTHER stuff is focusing on such stupidity - OH, and while on the STUPIDITY, maybe it would be a significant improvement if we had websites to report STUPID people and their BAD driving. Imagine the postal bills for the states, rival national debt!!!!

There ARE SOOOO many other issues of much greater need to be spending our tax dollars, I just can't believe how our society is shifting to the tattle-tale mentality over things that those making the reports have NO levels of comprehension. Life on the raods today IS very different than the years past and the IDIOTS are taking control.

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Old Aug 31, 2007 | 01:31 PM
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Arizona must have one too, because I got a letter!
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 01:39 PM
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Get a plate number off of a Prius and report it.
HAHAHAHA Now that is funny!
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Halibrand
as for the Moose..... BUAHAHAHAAA!!!!!



As for the CA DMV??? Having the public report smoking vehicles is NOTHING.... CA has put in sensors and cameras along its highways that detect gross polluting vehicles and RECORD their License Plate AND driver Identity (pics). It was an experiment that has been broadened now to put more cameras up and also offer incentives to fix or replace the vehicle. As for the moment, it does not mail tickets.... but Im sure that will change in the future.

Link: http://thenewspaper.com/news/19/1941.asp dated 8-29-07.
That whole deal is the "Smog Check II" and it's "for the children". Bunch commie puke, nanny state, do gooding, totalitarian, social engineering.

The Prius and enviro loon-bats will save us from "Global Warming"......oh.......noooooo.......they won't, it happens every 15000 years and is un-stoppable. It's called climate.

I'm supposed to trust the guys who don't know what the weather is going to be tomorrow to tell me what it's going to be in 50 years.

Oh, yeah, China, India, and every other nation in the world, except the USA is pristine and un-able to pollute.

Here, they let the Prius, even with only one person in it, use the carpool lane HOV lane, and provide a little sticker on the bumper so the cops won't ticket them...Crap, if they polute less, make them stay in the congested traffic,release less hydrocarbons and nox into the air and let the CTD's and other SUV's use the carpool lane so we can get to where we're going and stop the gross pollution

Smoke out the Prius and bikes....the bike riders shut down SF once a month. They carry their bike on racks, mounted on 60's vw's and volvos that pollute and ride around town, gridlocking traffic, and assulting women and children for the "enviroment" and "the children".
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 07:52 PM
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how do they do anything when all you have to do is turn "the box" off?
Old Aug 31, 2007 | 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by rustyshakelford
whats paulys license plate number? im going to report him!

i like to smoke people, it makes me feel good...

brett
Hey now! We'll have none of that!


Old Aug 31, 2007 | 08:30 PM
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Hey now! We'll have none of that!


i was beginning to wonder if you were ever going to read that

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Old Sep 1, 2007 | 02:14 AM
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My friend got a smoke letter on a car that had not left his property or even been run in over five years. It seems the DMV sends the letters out randomly.

John
Old Sep 1, 2007 | 03:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Dodgezilla
I was following one of those Prius's yesterday and just laughed at how clean they are and how my truck smokes like a train with any kind of acceleration. Such opposites!
Have you ever noticed that they all drive them slow too? Trying to save even more fuel I guess.....
I don't know if you listen to Limbaugh but he's got a funny environmental whacko news update song to the tune of some old Elvis Presley gig "In a Yugo" or something like that, LOL, they're saving fuel for you and me to burn up that's what it is just like the Limbaugh/Elvis spoof lol!



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