Anyone here in Costuming?

[Main Streeter]

With a Porsche.... why would the owner even worry abt house payments & food? I must be missing something.

[felinefan]

I'm a practical person, and if a miracle occurs that I actually did get my driver's license, I'd buy a Toyota Prius--the gas mileage, Toyota's long history of reliability, and it's just what I need, basic transportation. I think the only reason people buy luxury cars is because they want to look better than others. But sooner or later, those things come back to haunt you. I don't know if she sold the Porsche or not--no follow-up. She wasn't even identified, as I recall. Frankly, why carmakers feel they have to design, build and sell cars that are bad for the environment is beyond me. During the Arab oil embargo of the early-mid-70s, it went from people not caring about gas mileage to people caring very much about gas mileage--and then gas was jumping from thirty-five cents a gallon to a dollar a gallon! Now that we're facing four dollars a gallon gas, we better chuck gasoline entirely in favor of alternate fuel--running on cooking oil sounds good to me; then again, in the early history of the automobile, some cars ran on steam, others on electricity. And as for energy, I think we'd be better off using solar and wind energy, and forget nuclear. I don't believe that garbage about birds being hacked to death by wind turbine blades; I mean, birds get killed by power lines, but you don't see anybody getting rid of powerlines, do you? Nope! Birds can avoid things as long as they can see them in time, and a wind turbine should be pretty easy to see. Wires are harder to see in flight, because they're smaller; in fact, I think it's in Utah or somewhere they're fighting a wildfire started by a bird hitting a wire.