Filed under: Etc., MPG, Ford, AutoblogGreen Exclusive
What can we say about this license plate that it doesn't already say?
To answer the question in the headline: not much. Seeing a truck that reads "HOGNGAS" makes me wonder if the driver is unabashedly proud of the fuel he or she burns or if it's an apologetic way to tell the world that, driving on the highway, an F150 gets somewhere between 16 and 19 mpg (even less on E85).
In either case, we thank ABG reader Petdad for pointing us to this picture he took near Portland, Oregon. If you've got a picture for us, let us know.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Allen 12:46PM (9/04/2007)
burn some for me too
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Tim Russell 2:05PM (9/04/2007)
Still a free country and as we can see some people are free to be jerks! :-)
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murc 9:17PM (9/04/2007)
lol, he thinks like me.
He's not saying that he loves burning oil....he's just making a statement....that he's sick and tired of all the tree huggers out there.
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William Crabtree 9:39PM (9/04/2007)
Well...at least in Ohio he has to pay for that stupid license plater per year. It's an extra ~$40 per year over the typical rates just to have a customized plate.
...at least he doesn't have a sticker that says "Lowriders are for boys who can't get it up"... :-P
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Yggdrasilly 9:33AM (9/05/2007)
He bought it to annoy humorless people.
Looks like it's working.
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Yggdrasilly 9:36AM (9/05/2007)
He bought it to annoy humorless people.
Looks like it's working.
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gordon 12:24PM (9/06/2007)
I saw an SUV with the tag "hugatree." I wanted to follow them to their house and laugh at them.
http://www.cheapgreencar.com
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Brandon 2:22PM (1/22/2009)
Let him hog the gas, he has to pay for what he burns... I hate to say it, but unless gas prices stay high, it won't take long to forget about alternative fuel sources, and fuel efficiency.
Daniel Tosh commented in one of his commedic rants ' Ethanol is a dream, and a stupid one', and I can't help but agree. Lets get some affordable, reliable electric cars already...
http://www.lifeunplugged.net
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Uncle B 11:52AM (1/24/2009)
Think of your sons and daughters and grandchildren every time you use foreign oil! If not for unstated but very true facts of American life and the foreign oil supply, Iraq would never have happened! It is a Saudi obligation completed by George Bush! As oil grows scarcer in the world, the Saudi and OPEC demands get higher! Who do we invade next to appease them, Iran, or do we give up Israel to make them happy enough to ship oil to our shores? We must quit this "mercenary for oil" position and get real about Wind see reference below:
There is as much wind power potential (900,000 megawatts) off our coasts as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined, according to a new report entitled, A Framework for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the United States, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and General Electric. http://www.capecodtoday.com/news246.htm01/01/09
And remember:
If the U.S. had chosen to be a moral people, and leaving Iraqi oil alone, and following Al Gore, decided to develop the South Western deserts, with the technology of the times - solar/thermal-molten sodium - electricity installations, for the same amount of money as that war cost, ($650 Billion), today, we would be tapping into the largest, renewable, sustainable, PERPETUAL, energy source the world has ever known. It would have paid every energy bill in the U.S.A. for maintenance fees only - FOREVER! It would be equivalent to an oil field that can NEVER run dry! Low cost electric power, and storeable hydrogen gasoline replacement from the electricity, for all!
After the millions of murders, and $650 billions of dollars, borrowed from our children’s futures and pissed away, with thousands of our own and others maimed and disfigured for life, millions of families utterly destroyed, ours and theirs, we are no closer to Iraqi oil production than the Iraqis are!
The next time you hear a blithering idiot spoiled brat, drunken, drug addicted, sociopath, rich Arabic saber dancing daddie’s boy oilman, stand at a microphone and threaten YOUR safety with someone ELSE’S weapons, remember what you lost America, remember, and weep! (also see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan)
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