Save the environment? So let me get this straight. You want me to buy one of these hybrid vehicles that is going to theoretically save me money on gas and “help the environment” at the same time. All for only $4,000 more at the dealership?!?! I better call all of my friends and tell them to run over here.

First off, don’t mistake me for someone who just doesn’t care about the environment, because I do. Secondly, its time to stop listening to the politicians who say that our cars are single-handedly killing the polar bears. Are you serious? The earth is warming. There is no denying that. But who the heck should we listen to? Some “experts” will go on television and swear that the invention of the automobile is to blame, while other will say that this is just a normal trend in the history of the world and people have little effect on the large scale. Who do you trust? Whatever is going on, there are few things that I know and will continue to live by. #1) My 1995 GM vehicle gets me to and from work every single day without a hitch. All I have to do is put 18 gallons of 87 octane go-go juice in her and she purrs like a kitten. Her glorious internal combustion engine has been put through all kinds of torture and still comes back for more after well over 100,000 miles. #2) The 114 octane leaded hot sauce that powers my drag car smells like sweet November rain and keeps the 12 to 1 compression pistons pumping well past 8 grand. Sure, it costs eleven bucks a gallon but at $25,000 per stone, I just can’t afford to be blowing engines up. #3) Every once in a while, my buddies and I get liquored up, play “pin the tail” on a map of the US of A, jump into my Suburban and head off into the sunset to god knows where. Should I feel bad for burning up petrozene for the fun of it? Heck, no. #4) Ok, I can turn the lights off in my bedroom when I am not in there, and I guess I can reduce, reuse,….whatever. But give me a gas guzzling V8 any day over some brushless armateur that I have to charge overnight or whatever.