Comments | heartssdesire: Bitter irony

heartssdesire

Bitter irony

Feb 20, 2009 13:34

Seen today on a street in Livermore:

( Read more... )

Comments 9

aoibhill February 20 2009, 21:56:52 UTC

I think pranksters were putting those stickers on SUV's. I seem to remember a big hoopla about them appearing on yuppie SUV's in the Mission a few years back.

heartssdesire February 21 2009, 00:40:45 UTC

That would be believable, possibly more so than what I imagined was the explanation for this.

yezida February 20 2009, 22:11:32 UTC

I've always liked the "Walk Lightly on Mother Earth" bumper stickers, myself.

fallen42 February 20 2009, 22:18:42 UTC

Who knows, maybe they are usually driving around 6 kids and carrying saplings in the back to plant on a local nature preserve. You can't judge a person's world-footprint at a glance.

Actually, didn't you make that point in a post ages ago?

heartssdesire February 20 2009, 23:57:36 UTC

Yes, that's true, I did. And, you and I both live/work in Livermore. How many of the SUV-driving football-watching Livermore clone people really are secretly running around using their big gas guzzlers to plant trees? And for that matter, if somebody could afford a late model SUV they could have bought a hybrid SUV to haul their 6 kids around in instead, if they really cared that much about reducing consumption.

It's not like I have a standard I'm expecting people to live up to for being environmental enough. I know some people need to drive big vehicles, or can't afford to buy a more ecofriendly car, or whatever. It's just if you're going to paste a "Question Consumption" sticker on your vehicle, it's kind of preachy, and I expect the person who's doing that to walk their talk. Honestly I don't see why somebody driving that particular vehicle with the extra chrome football logo attachments that you buy at the mall, is in a position to be preaching to the rest of us about reducing our consumption.

meliny February 21 2009, 00:42:44 UTC

I can vouch for a few of the people you describe (no doubt a small percentage of the demographic), except maybe for the football part. I don't keep up on which of my friends are into football. aoibhill's answer makes the most sense, but it's entirely possible that no sense is to be made here.

I wonder how many trees are required to offset a tank of gas. Herm.....

fallen42 February 22 2009, 07:14:31 UTC

You're probably correct. I just dislike jumping to conclusions about people. That's more of an issue with me than anything else though.

alces2 February 21 2009, 00:57:44 UTC

A prankster having put it on seems reasonable. I drive a Camry Hybrid and have no bumper sticker. Does that help? Probably not.

arethinn February 23 2009, 03:41:25 UTC

Could be worse; a Pilot ain't an Expedition.