Saturday, December 13, 2008
Insufferable vanity plate watch
It will not surprise regular readers that I am the sort of person who rebels against insufferable sanctimony. I reflexively and irrationally detest perfectly sensible messages if they are paraded around like a badge of honor. So it was this morning when, while conveying the TigerHawk Teenager to an administration of the ACT at Lawrence High School on the Princeton Pike, we trailed a Prius with a tediously predictable Obama bumper sticker. No surprise there; the two go so consistently hand-in-hand that I have on occasion wondered whether the local Toyota dealer offers left-wing bumper stickers as an option.
No, I was irritated by the New Jersey vanity plate: "54 MPG".
Much as my brain says "do not mock conservation," my heart resolved to drive wastefully for the rest of the day. I will accelerate abruptly and drive at shamefully high speeds all afternoon, including on my trip to the hardware store to pick up two boxes of compact florescent bulbs, all in honor of some self-important clown who almost certainly does not actually achieve 54 miles to the gallon.
13 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Dec 13, 12:39:00 PM:
I doubt very much if a Prius gets even close to 54 MPG. This driver paid a premium of $5K to $10K dollars over the price of a small regular Toyota. That extra money will buy a LOT of gas at $1.39 a gallon.
Maybe his vanity plate should say : "ABJECT FOOL"
By 
D.E. Cloutier, at
Sat Dec 13, 12:49:00 PM:
Maybe the driver is a Prius salesperson.
By Dan Collins, at
Sat Dec 13, 01:23:00 PM:
I thought that plates weren't allowed to convey overtly religious messages.
By HorribleLicensePlates, at
Sat Dec 13, 05:00:00 PM:
More stupid vanity plates here:
http://horriblelicenseplates.blogspot.com
Ugh. We hate them too.
By , at
Sat Dec 13, 05:54:00 PM:
Actually, my wife's does get 54 MPG during rush hour driving (the speed is limited by other traffic). No, neither of us voted for Obama, we got (I got her) the car because as a hybrid she can drive in our HOV lane and it saves her 30- 45 min. each way. An extra hour at home each work day was worth the premium that was paid for the hybrid.
By , at
Sat Dec 13, 07:27:00 PM:
Would you be offened if someone put 300 HP on their vanity plate?
By , at
Sat Dec 13, 07:45:00 PM:
Roy Mustang said...
"Would you be offened if someone put 300 HP on their vanity plate?"
That has a higher probability of being true than "54 MPG" does.
jay stevens
By Noumenon, at
Sat Dec 13, 09:35:00 PM:
If you look at the comments to the link you posted, not a single person gets anywhere close to as low mileage as that guy posted. Lots of them claim 54 mpg -- and if you're getting a license plate of it, you're probably a hypermiler and can do even better.
By , at
Sun Dec 14, 12:33:00 AM:
Why is a libtards LYING gas mileage relevant to anyone?
Analogy here:
If driving a car and burning gasoline is wrong or detrimental to the PLANET.....
Why do libs ADVERTISE that they RAPE less often??
Global warming is the "religion du jour" for libtards.
By , at
Mon Dec 15, 02:22:00 AM:
This condescending vanity plate attitude is not just an east coast phenomenon.
Look at this one I snapped while driving on Interstate 5 in California a couple of months ago.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/prius-plate.jpg
It really says it all about attitude.
By , at
Mon Dec 15, 02:29:00 AM:
sorry that first URL was bad
here is the correct one:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/prius-plate1.jpg
By , at
Mon Dec 15, 02:02:00 PM:
A fine illustration of why I customarily refer to that kind of vehicle as a Priapus.
--Scurvy Oaks
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Mon Dec 15, 08:23:00 PM:
NH has had vanity plates longer than most states, and people really go all out here. I have seen Prius plates reading LOGAS, NOGAS, ENVIRO, and PLANET.
They just love to hug themselves.
