Hating Hummers
Hummers are a part of life in LA. Although we're assured that Land Rovers get about the same gas mileage, there's something about hummers that we find completely nauseating. There's something so shiny and new and smug about those cars. Like they know they're using up so many natural resources and they don't care. They're in it for the looks for the feeling of road dominance and the fantasy that they might roam hidden trails and ford rivers (more environmentally irresponsible behavior) at any time.The hummer was orginally built for the US Army to replace the lightweight and less armored jeep that they had used through the Vietnam conflict. It came to fame through its part in the highly televised first gulf war in the early early nineties. Around this time, Arnold Schwarzenegger asked them to make civilian models. He was, in fact, the first private owner of the Hummer, and continues to own several.
Though we don't own Priuses, we know that Prius owners tend to wave to each other (wait, it becomes relevant) and spread the good feeling of owning an environmentally friendly car. We think we should take a page of that book and apply it to Hummers, the poster-car for wasteful, ignorant, Republican way, and suggest that, since failing gas prices have done little to disway Hummer owners, we start a campaign of unpleasantness for them. Nothing dangerous -- we don't advocate cutting them off or anything that might cause someone to get hurt, just flick them off. Flick them off at every opportunity.
posted by kuaptic. @ 9:57 AM
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