I must admit I had no idea blogging would be this enjoyable, and on so many levels, not just writing one but getting the response.

After that first attempt I wondered briefly if anyone would actually read what I had written, well hold onto your knobs, for all you British people out there, I of course mean the gear shift, after all this is for car enthusiasts, I’m not trying to offend anyone, perhaps, I should re phrase that, I’m not trying to offend everyone!

I don’t give a crap about offending those who I believe have offended me, but I will keep it all within the confines of everything automotive.

I want to discuss an email I received, I would’ve much preferred the response to me had been in another blog on MyWheelsTVGarage perhaps on that persons own page, that is if they had the courage to own up to having a profile. Anyway, this person actually had the audacity to suggest I put their email into my blog, but people who respond by email, as this person did, rarely when it’s proven, have the complete courage of their own convictions.

They are the pompous, pretentious, self righteous preachy type of person, but much more insidious than that, they want to tell you how to do things and what to do. They can’t just have a simple opinion, they want to force their opinion on you and then question how and why you do everything that does not conform to their way of thinking, they are the people that start wars, although they’ll start spluttering with indignation at such a suggestion, these tree huggers will be the first to tell you that everything they believe in is against war, it’s for peace and the environment.

Yes the environment, that’s what they’re protecting, and how dare we be driving big fat gas guzzling cars that we can’t possibly justify the use of, within their precious environment, that they’re so zealously protecting.

Isn’t it always the preachers with the loudest voices that get caught with the stickiest fingers? More on that in a moment.

This emailer, who I happen to know to some varying degree, “can’t stomach solutions being touted by those who don’t subscribe to them”. If you read that particular blog in question, there was no touting, I made no claim that I would partake in bio diesel solutions or that anyone else should, it was merely informational.

Let me pull some excerpts out of this email for fun.

Also in the previous blog there was no “Bitchin”, their word not mine, about gas prices, again it was an observational piece, quite obviously wrongly interpreted within their own personal agenda, which pretty much always becomes do as I say not as I do.

I can hear the whining now, about how this emailer rides a bike to work everyday, ooh how responsible, I won’t even get into how all that sweatin’ and fartin is effecting the ozone layer?

“Here in ***, parking lots charge a 20 dollar premium for full-sized vehicles.”

What a silly comment.

Parking lots that charge $20 for full size vehicles! A tree hugger interprets that as protecting the environment, normal people interpret that as, either gouging, or smart business, basically opportunism.

A lot attendant can use the fact that you have a bigger car to charge you a bigger amount to park it! How is that helping the environment?,  unless you tell me that small cars pay $12, big cars pay $20 and the lot attendant sends the difference of $8 to Al Gore? Guess what, it’s free enterprise, the lot attendant doesn’t give a crap about the environment, he keeps the extra $8 and the more the bigger, the merrier.

Anyway, there I am reading this email, incredulous at what it is saying, I’m being asked to justify what I drive and how I drive it and what I use it for.

Not by way of justification, although it can, if you like, be interpreted that way, I don’t give a rats ass.

 “Basically, I think it's irresponsible and irrational to drive such a large vehicle if you don't use it as it was designed.”

Basically I don’t give a crap what you think, if I want your opinion I will ask for it.

These are the people who have such low self esteem that they have to tell people what to do and how to do it, whether it’s cars to drive or food to eat, places to go or clothes to wear. They just can’t shut up and mind their own business, they’re self important, pretentious, haughty and snobbish and they constantly seek affirmation from all their friends, peers and associates for all the goody two shoes stuff they’re doing.

The funny thing is most of the people whom they associate with find all their crap such a pain in the ass but haven’t the heart to tell them. These tree huggers feelings get hurt so easily, their self esteem is so fragile because they really do think and believe that they’re right and everyone else is wrong.

Before this job I spent 10 years in a home based office, no commute at all, my emailer can’t claim that? So I think I built up some credits there?

Read this bit!

“A weight-based use-tax would be a glorious thing.  It's hard for those of us who are more responsible with our vehicle choices to take serious those who need to inflate their plumage with an SUV or big-ass car.”

Personally I think 80 cents a gallon would be a glorious thing!  

And then that thing about “how it is hard for us who are responsible with our vehicle choices, inflating our plumage”, crap crap crap crap.

How portentous and arrogant was that hollow statement? why? I’m coming to that.

“So, I implore you:  when was the last time you hauled or towed anything, or filled that bed up with messy, heavy stuff or otherwise put that RAM to work, that wouldn't fit into the trunk of say, a hatchback?”

Puhleeeze. Now the self righteous, preachy, tree hugger wants me to keep a log and report on when I’m using my vehicle responsibly. Perhaps I need to start another log that details every time I buy mulch and choose to pick up three yards of it myself rather than pay to have it delivered, or any other yard related item. There are probably some tree hugger rules I’m breaking about moving dirt from one location to the other?

Or when friends, yes I have friends, and neighbors who I regularly respond to for requests to assist where a big ass truck is required, taking furniture to the transfer station where it is recycled for others to use, just one fairly regular example, if you need names, numbers, etc, for verification let me know, I’m sure I can comply.

Actually I think the bed of the truck as some real scratches from real actual stuff that was in there, amazing, perhaps I will try and take some pictures if anyone is really interested.

“I also challenge you:  ditch the RAM, get something reasonable and respectable - you'll save money, and what's left of our "natural" resources.  You also won't get berated by a growing faction of people who despise a vehicle such as yours.  It's time to be an agent of change.”

I must admit I loved this bit, all of it, “reasonable and respectable”, the arrogance is overwhelming, everything by his preachy, self righteous, self important standard.

And I’ll save what’s left of our natural resources? Huh? Save our natural resource of Oil? Metal? The Ozone Layer?

And I actually don’t give a crap about people who despise vehicles like the ones I drive, I don’t care one bit if they want to berate me. Like I said these are the people who hold the double standard, whose negligible self esteem compels them to attempt to manipulate people to their own narrow viewpoint whilst they maintain their own double standard.

And what is that double standard.

Perhaps people who live in gas polluting houses should not throw stones.

People who take cross country trips spewing pollutants across multiple states, and people who drive cars that barely get better mileage than a modern engine, hold a double standard, especially when those older engines in their car’s, yes more than one, spew out dirtier and more damaging pollutants than those big ass clean burning, fuel efficient environmentally regulated and friendly vehicles do.

But that’s your business, your conscience, your standard.

Tags: Tree Huggers Gas Guzzelers Pollution

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