The Toyota Prius is the current must-have item for the socially hip crowd (read: lefties). It says, “I’m a socially-conscious environmental activist” without actually having to say the words to anyone, which would not be cool. This video clip from the BBC’s Top Gear program points out some of the shortcomings of that thinking and is very funny to boot.
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The whole Prius fad is interesting in that it points out, as well as anything, the liberal left’s penchant for symbolism over substance. Al Gore and his Washington and Hollywood pals promote the “100 miles per gallon” Prius, admonish the rest of us for driving SUV’s (because we don’t want to see our kids flattened like pancakes in a Prius), then hop into private jets that burn more fuel in one day than most of us burn in a year in our cars.