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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 03:22 PM
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Make a Greenie flinch

I saw the esurance commercial about your carbon foot print.
http://www.earthlab.com/carbonProfil...rth.htm?ver=13
I took their quiz. I scored a 674. Anyone got me beat?
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 03:44 PM
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They don't even have Diesels as a choice in vehicles I can only imagine my score:

Do you drive a Modded Cummnis powered truck?? Add 200 points

Do you frequently leave large amounts of BLACK SMOKE when leaving stop lights?? Add 500 Points

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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 03:48 PM
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I was reading on there that 200 something was average...

I must be 3 times better than average..
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 03:49 PM
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591 for me..

just a few problems. no diesel dodge rams avalable on their lists. and for sure my safari van does not use premium like their list says
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 03:51 PM
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I dont OWN a diesel, so I didn't think of checking before I posted.

I just figured this would be one place to talk about it and not get a flame war started.
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 04:07 PM
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I scored an honest 275, but I chose the 6 cylinder gas 2wd 1500 because I figure I am still getting better mileage than those. What's a Ram Wagon? I think I want one! There's nothing wrong with conservation, I figure I contribute in other ways to make up for burning so much diesel. Yee Haaw!
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 04:48 PM
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I got a 391. Is that good or bad? As has been mentioned, no diesel option so I chose the SRT 10 option. And this is kinda miss leading, the options you can chose are scewed/slanted towards the greener virsions of things.
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 05:18 PM
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805 beyyyyyaaaaa!!!

I registered my location as Paris, France as to disguise my location since George Bush is from here I'm sure they'd tag mine.

I used 4wd 5.7 1500 Ram.
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 05:23 PM
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495.......The were no selections for "I drive an 8,000 pound diesel powered truck, and Wifey drives a Landcruiser", ''I use a double bulb 150 watt floodlight fixture for a nightlight", or "I Cant Drive 55". .
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 06:13 PM
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320 for my household. I do use Compact fluorescents, sleep the computer when not in use, turn off the lights, have a low flow showerhead and recycle, but the vehicle is something I can't get around. I live in the sticks and my wife and I both drive a fair bit. Good thing they didn't ask about boats...

Lame that there was no diesel option for the vehicles, even my jetta showed only gas as an option.

then again, I wasn't trying to "make a greenie flinch"...
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 07:08 PM
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I have 8 vehicles...so I quit the test when it only limited me to 4. I didn't feel like doing all that work.
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 07:28 PM
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according to it with every thing maxed out for fun, and a lambo dialblo, i had the lo lo score of 999, being real, i had 391
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 07:52 PM
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I got a 685.
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 08:51 PM
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Im not sure if its the combined 40K miles per year or the plane trips I take each year that put me so high.

Oh well, you keep burning hydro carbons, we will keep drilling, I keep making money.
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 09:18 PM
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382...Guess I'm a bad person.

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