Celebs who claim they're green but guzzle gas!!

Irony at its best.

Completely agree with this article. Driving a Prius is one thing, but I've always figured celebrities who drive them to be nothing more than image-conscious media whores. Drive a Prius, and you'll get publicity...

— BMW530i (View Profile)

Posted on 10/25/2006 3:10:47 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Yes, absolute hypocrites. I agreee completely.

— chewy (View Profile)

Posted on 10/25/2006 7:52:57 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Come on Will, I think you know what 530i meant.

Most celebrities are shallow and care about their image. By driving a Prius, they feel that they can get support (and publicity) from the masses for being environmentally conscious.

Celebrities who drive other luxury cars also make a statement: I'm rich. Most of these luxury cars do get poor fuel economy, correct, but the issue at hand is the Prius.

They drive the efficient Prius as a means of saying "I care about the environment", but then they contradict this statement with a thirsty private jet, other less fuel efficient cars etc.

In the end, it's not the Prius fault, but the celebrities who drive them. In a way, they're giving the Prius a bad name.

— Willis (View Profile)

Posted on 10/26/2006 9:00:36 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Will, Willis pretty much said it. That's what I meant.

Notice, I never flamed the Prius in my post. I flamed the people -> celebrities <- driving them...

— BMW530i (View Profile)

Posted on 10/26/2006 12:31:36 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Very nice comment by Willis.

He's one of the lucky few still sane on this website.

Just give it some time...

— S4cabriofox (View Profile)

Posted on 10/26/2006 10:46:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

No Will, you aren't getting it. The article said that the hypocratical celebs fly so much and on private jets (using much more fuel than a regular passanger in a air line plane) that they would have to drive their photo-op Priuses to the moon to compinsate for ONE extravagant private jet flight. I don't care that they do waste fuel with private jets (I would do the same) but I hate hypocracy with a passion, and their supposed "green" image with the photo-op Prius is idiotic. BTW, most politicians do the same. Drive up for a photo-up in a Prius (with its elevated "Greenes") but acutally they arrived in an SUV that gets like 10 MPG. [the same politicians haven't figured out that the SUVs don't pay a gas guzzler tax that they deserve]

— chewy (View Profile)

Posted on 10/28/2006 1:04:25 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Could be worse, they all could be driving V8/V10 Escalades, Benz and BMW's instead.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/30/2006 12:49:12 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1