Fans of the Goracle And What They Drive

Instapundit likes to say that he'll start to take global warming seriously when the advocates start to act like they take global warming seriously. Zombietime has a great collection of photos that she took in the parking lot at the Marin Civic Center when the Goracle came to speak about global warming. Go here, and scroll down to "Gallery of Gore Fan SUVs."

And let me emphasize: Marin County is among the most wretched excess of wealth counties in America. These are people who can easily afford to show their environmental responsibility by having their Mercedes SUVs dismantled, and then buying a hybrid or whatever hair shirt best shows off their concern for Mother Earth.

It reminds of something that happened to a friend of mine back in 1992. He was driving north from San Francisco to Sonoma County. This friend was one of the tiny number of Republicans in Sonoma County, and he had a Bush bumper sticker on his car. Somewhere in Marin County, a Volvo pulled up alongside him on the 101, and started swearing and screaming at him. Not being a lip reader, about all he could make out was something about Bush--and then the deranged liberal pulled out a handgun and started waving it around. (Doubtless a member of at least two gun control groups, I'm sure.) Fortunately, one of those rare, historic events, there really was a cop around when you need one--a California Highway Patrol car was two cars back, saw this confrontation, and pulled the brandishing liberal over.

My Corvette gets about 20-21 mpg around town; often in the high 20s on the highway. I telecommute four days a week. For this house, I spent a bit of extra money to make sure that I had R-50 insulation in my attic. I used 2x6 construction in the walls instead of 2x4 to add air space insulation, and every window in the house opens, so that most of the year I can use natural breezes for cooling instead of air conditioning. I am almost certainly doing less damage to Mother Earth than these environmentally self-righteous sorts.