On an episode of her Mob Logic.TV called "Hybrid Hullabaloo" the lovely Lindsay Campbell (pictured right) had the opportunity to ask an owner of the iconic super-sized Tonka toy something she has been wanting to ask for a long time.
While interviewing random people in the parking lot of a "big box" store about hybrids and why they aren't driving them, she spots a man returning to his king-sized ride and runs to confront him. With mic in hand and cameraman in tow she starts, "Tell me seriously, I've always wanted to talk with a Hummer owner and find out what the hell you were thinking when you bought this car" Find out his reaction after the jump.
2. "Do you think that the price will fall, or do you think there's too much incentive for them to keep making gas-powered cars?"
1. Hybrid cars are expensive because they're more complicated than regular cars... NOT because there's some conspiracy between gas companies and automakers.
2. Hybrids are gas-powered cars!
When someone goes from driving a compact car to driving a hybrid they're doing about the smallest thing one can do to decrease their carbon footprint. But it sure makes them feel like it gives them the right to go around belittling other people who don't.
The biggest thing anyone can do to reduce their carbon footprint is to stop having kids. Think about how much carbon is going to be released into the atmosphere as a direct result of however many kids you have. If you already have kids you should probably dispose of them and get one of those more energy efficient cats or something.
5. The video clip could have been interesting if it had been set up properly instead of being displayed in spurts. Reminds me of the old days when I used a slow telephone modem.
7. I agree with you, Wise Golden. That kind of behaviour only serves to anger people. It does nothing to help further environmentalism or fuel economy, but rather encourages people to continue what they are already doing. The only people who benefit are those who get a bizarre sense of self-worth by attacking others.
9. Yes, this IS counter productive, if cute babes asked me why I bought a Hummer all day long, I'd buy a hummer. We need Less Pretty reporters to do this work.
b) paint hybrids as an environmental panacea, which they most certainly are NOT, considering the toxins used in battery packs, the fact that hybrids rarely live up to their MPG billings in real-world driving and the actual carbon footprint of these intricate, heavily developed, difficult-to-manufacture technologies
c) demonize auto dealers, who are far from "desperate to incentivize" non-hybrid vehicles.I'm sure these people are sitting behind their desks cackling, thinking "haha! Let's take a profit hit and hurt our ability to stay in business just so we can move some more of these carbon-spewing midsize sedans!" Absolutely not. Incentives have been a part of the auto business as long as anyone can remember.
This clip is sensationalist and presents a skewed view of the issue that fails to take into account all the information available. Who gave this woman a soapbox?
12. So that was by Saturn. Saturn who is owned by GM. GM who own Hummer. not much joined up thinking there lads. yeah lets get people into saturns that we don't make money on, out of hummers that we make a boat load of profit on. yeah.
and the Answer to why do you drive a hummer?
Because I bloody well want to. I earned the money for this car I should be able to drive what the hell I want.
13. This idiocy was much like the old automotive "focus groups". You ask a group of people "would you buy a heated cup holder in your new car?" and they say sure. You build cars with a heated cup holder option and it sells exactly zero. Parking lot poles and focus groups are a waste of time - Lindsay should get a job selling shoes.
14. Who is this dolt and why is she on TV? She has no idea what those people do with their cars or what their needs may be yet she so arrogantly parades around demanding that people drive hybrids.
15. I don't own a hybrid car and probably won't for a while simply because there is not one decent looking one. and the only ones that are dent at max get 25 - 30 mpg, which is retarded when the car i drive gets 25 mpg. (yes if you drive a Hummer with 9 mpg 25 is certainly something to look at) but when everyone is begging you to go hybrid my response is simple, make a car that doesn't look liek shit and gets over 40 mpg, and if anyone response the prius they can go to hell. I have never seen an uglier looking car in my life.
Also if a person wants to buy a hummer, leave them alone. they are the one paying $100 every week if not more often. I could go up to a prius owner and say "what the hell where you thinking when you bought this" because the car's hideous! You think it's a great and sexy car thats fine, but maybe they think there hummer is a great and sexy car.
16. This is the dumbest reporting I've ever seen. Did she really ask the lady that drives a Geo Metro (white car before the Hummer)that gets 58 mpg why she wasn't driving a hybrid that get 48mpg? And did she really ask the Hummer guy what he was thinking? Maybe likes the way the Hummer looks, chickee! Someone take that mike away from her, and tell her to go back to school! Hey I'm not for Hummers, but I still think they're great looking cars! That's what he was probably thinking too!
17. Well that was fun! Her mic seemed a bit pointless. Either it didn't work or she didn't know how to use it. Couldn't hear a word the Hummer owner said.
18. You want to devise a great way to create backlash against the entire environmental movement? Have this bimbo hassle people for the cars they decide to drive.
This just reinforces my belief that most of the "environmentalists" out there aren't interested in actual conservation, but instead just asserting their moral superiority.
The woman was hassling a someone for driving a Geo Metro. Does she not understand that particular model gets better fuel economy than ALL current hybrids? Also, a hybrid doesn't make sense for everyone.
A hybrid hatchback doesn't work for a larger family, and there is nothing wrong with buying a Suburban (or Hummer) because they need it, or a contractor driving a truck because they need to haul things.
A little hybrid makes great sense for a single yuppie who lives in San Francisco, but it's not a solution for everyone.
19. It strikes me that when people feel bitter or they have failed to accomplish much in their lives they grasp onto the environment as their cause for two primary reasons: (1)It hides their envy of those who are accomplished and gives them a bogus sense of accomplishment.(2)It isn't based on the rigors of science. Nearly any contrived charge can be leveled about a preceived environmental danger and it will be accepted without question by the mass mediums of print and broadcasting. Environmentalism is the new home of totalitarianism and the destruction of personal freedom.
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On an episode of her Mob Logic.TV called "Hybrid Hullabaloo" the lovely Lindsay Campbell (pictured right) had the opportunity to ask an owner of the iconic super-sized Tonka toy something she has been wanting to ask for a long time.
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