Tiny Carbon Footprint is Sexy

[cheerful_deviant]

Chicks Dig My Tiny Carbon Footprint

Wired.com By Chuck Squatriglia May 22, 2008

What do women find sexy? Hybrids. They're chick magnets.

So says a survey by General Motors that found nearly nine in 10 women would rather talk to a guy in a Prius than a Porsche. Dumping the SUV in favor of an econobox would make you more popular at parties, too. Eighty percent of respondents said they find people who drive fuel efficient cars more interesting than those that don't.

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The part that most ammused me about the article was that on the sidebar was a Mercedes-Benz ad for the new C63 AMG, a car that costs about 60 grand and gets about 12mpg.

So ladies, thoughts? I'm buying a car soon so this is important research.

 

[SemiColon]

That's funny - my mother drives a Prius and I don't find her sexy at all. (although she's a big hit in the mature lesbian community)

I think what is true is that a car can tell you something about what a person values, and the hybrids allow you to "put your money where your mouth is" about the environment. But I would never reccommend buying a vehilce to meet or attract women; it may work, but would you really want a woman who dates someone just for their car?

In college I refused to date any man who didn't drive a stick shift.

 

[S-Des]

Sounds like wishful thinking to me. How often do you see someone in a $60,000+ car not able to attract a woman? The show we're doing tonight is at an upscale restaurant owned by a fast food mogul. He occasionally shows up in his ridiculously pricey sports car, and it's never by himself (and going strictly by looks, he's swimming WAY over his head).

 

[impressive]

My hybrid hasn't netted me any chicks.

 

[tickledkitty]

I don't think it'd do much for me beyond the initial, "oh, look, he has a hybrid."

 

[logophile]

Political action is hot.
Refusing to participate in the planned depletion of our natural resources is political action.
Driving a hybrid is, therefor, hot.

I don't date men, but if I did, I would be far more likely to chat up a fellow with a hybrid, a scooter, a bicycle, or a bus pass than any asshole driving a muscle car or an SUV. I can't even see a Hummer! You might as well not exist.

 

[tickledkitty]

Political action is hot.
Refusing to participate in the planned depletion of our natural resources is political action.
Driving a hybrid is, therefor, hot.

I don't date men, but if I did, I would be far more likely to chat up a fellow with a hybrid, a scooter, a bicycle, or a bus pass than any asshole driving a muscle car or an SUV. I can't even see a Hummer! You might as well not exist.

Dang, I gotta agree about the Hummer. I just don't see the point.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I wonder how a boy would do with the chicks if a bike was his primary means of transport? Arrived for a date in a pedicab?

 

[logophile]

I wonder how a boy would do with the chicks if a bike was his primary means of transport? Arrived for a date in a pedicab?

I've been casually dating a woman for a few months who rides a bike everywhere. We meet out and then put her bike in the car if we want to go somewhere else afterward. She rides the bus out to my neighborhood if we're going to be hanging out on this side of town. I respect her decision to sell her car and move by pedal power and we work it out.

 

[Gizzmotick]

Political action is hot.
Refusing to participate in the planned depletion of our natural resources is political action.
Driving a hybrid is, therefor, hot.

I don't date men, but if I did, I would be far more likely to chat up a fellow with a hybrid, a scooter, a bicycle, or a bus pass than any asshole driving a muscle car or an SUV. I can't even see a Hummer! You might as well not exist.

Well, amusingly enough... I don't have a hybrid... but my lil' car gets better mileage than some hybrids (even with 200,000+ miles on it). So I won't be trading my car in for a little while yet.

I have to agree that taking part in conservation is a highly respectable thing to do. Even with my high mileage car, I am still making plans to bike to work now that the weather is a bit nicer. I don't think that having any particular car will make one sexy or not... but cycling around town... that is garaunteed to make one sexy... you get a great ass and legs from doing that.

 

[Carnevil9]

What cracks me up are people who drive a Prius or make some other symbolic gesture, but still live in a 50,000 square foot home (or several) and fly around on a private jet......Carney (thinking Al Gore and the like)

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I don't date men, but if I did, I would be far more likely to chat up a fellow with a hybrid, a scooter, a bicycle, or a bus pass than any asshole driving a muscle car or an SUV.

I would make an exception for the right muscle car.

 

[tickledkitty]

I'm always suspect of a person who doesn't own a car or doesn't drive at all. I'm talking Americans. I know things are different elsewhere. It just seems like whenever I meet someone who doesnt drive it's because they don't have a job, so they couldn't pay for a car anyway, or they lost their license due to DUI, or they're just plain crazy. Is it just me?

 

[Carnevil9]

I'm always suspect of a person who doesn't own a car or doesn't drive at all. I'm talking Americans. I know things are different elsewhere. It just seems like whenever I meet someone who doesnt drive it's because they don't have a job, so they couldn't pay for a car anyway, or they lost their license due to DUI, or they're just plain crazy. Is it just me?

Yes, it's just you. Many urban dwellers in large American cities (NYC, Chicago, DC) get along very nicely without a car.

 

[jomar]

I'm always suspect of a person who doesn't own a car or doesn't drive at all. I'm talking Americans. I know things are different elsewhere. It just seems like whenever I meet someone who doesnt drive it's because they don't have a job, so they couldn't pay for a car anyway, or they lost their license due to DUI, or they're just plain crazy. Is it just me?

No, not just you. It crosses my mind too, especially when I see men riding those small scooters. In non-urban areas (and by urban I mean NY or Chicago style cities) Americans are not used to seeing people choose to walk, bike or take the bus unless they have to.


It is true that in dense cities like Chicago, DC and NY people do get along well without cars.

 

[tickledkitty]

Yes, it's just you. Many urban dwellers in large American cities (NYC, Chicago, DC) get along very nicely without a car.

I'm sure they do. But I think you're wrong. It's not just me. Maybe I'm just the only one admitting it right now.

 

[jomar]

double post

 

[logophile]

I'm always suspect of a person who doesn't own a car or doesn't drive at all. I'm talking Americans. I know things are different elsewhere. It just seems like whenever I meet someone who doesnt drive it's because they don't have a job, so they couldn't pay for a car anyway, or they lost their license due to DUI, or they're just plain crazy. Is it just me?

I've known people who don't drive because they've been prohibited (by law or finances) so I know what you're saying.

But recently, I've met several people who purposely live near where they work and use alternate forms of transportation. Some companies are now offering employees financial rewards for not driving to work. For example, one place gives employess a dollar for every day they get to work by bike or bus and fifty cents if they carpool. They provide shower facilities and everything.

I respect it so much, and long for the day when I'm not living 15 minutes by car from the place I need to be each day!

 

[trysail]

...I don't date men...

Curses!

I'll bet I've got the lowest "carbon footprint" of anybody on Literotica. God knows, it ain't 'cause I'm tryin' to make any kind of political statement— I'm just plain ol' CHEAP!!

2005 gasoline expenditure
$230.99
2005 gasoline consumption
99.8 gallons
Average cost
$2.31/gallon
2005 mileage
3,012 miles

2006 gasoline expenditure
$272.37
2006 gasoline consumption
97.9 gallons
Average cost
$2.78/gallon
2006 mileage
2,992 miles

2007 gasoline expenditure
$189.23
2007 gasoline consumption
67.6 gallons
Average cost
$2.80/gallon
2007 mileage
1,959 miles

2008 gasoline expenditure
$39.49
2008 gasoline consumption
10.9 gallons
Average cost
$3.64/gallon
2008 mileage
271 miles

 

[jomar]

Curses!

I'll bet I've got the lowest "carbon footprint" of anybody on Literotica. God knows, it ain't 'cause I'm tryin' to make any kind of political statement— I'm just plain ol' CHEAP!!

Okay, I'll bite. How do you splain those feegures?

 

[trysail]

Okay, I'll bite. How do you splain those feegures?

A) I am a certified tightwad,

B) I walk everywhere that it's possible to walk (fortunately, the grocery store is at the TOP of the hill. I walk uphill emptyhanded; I walk down burdened),

C) I'm involuntarily "retired" having been ostracized from my profession for failure to compromise my ethical beliefs. I'll go back to work if I'm ever able to locate a set of competent and honest colleagues similar to those it was my great good fortune to have been associated with for the last eighteen years of my career (I'm not, however, holding my breath— simply put, they don't make 'em like that anymore).

 

[tickledkitty]

I've known people who don't drive because they've been prohibited (by law or finances) so I know what you're saying.

But recently, I've met several people who purposely live near where they work and use alternate forms of transportation. Some companies are now offering employees financial rewards for not driving to work. For example, one place gives employess a dollar for every day they get to work by bike or bus and fifty cents if they carpool. They provide shower facilities and everything.

I respect it so much, and long for the day when I'm not living 15 minutes by car from the place I need to be each day!

I guess maybe that was my point. The leeriness I have of those types of people is getting to be a thing of the past. Like it's a value from the 80s or something. It's also my experience though. Just sayin'.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I'm always suspect of a person who doesn't own a car or doesn't drive at all. I'm talking Americans. I know things are different elsewhere. It just seems like whenever I meet someone who doesnt drive it's because they don't have a job, so they couldn't pay for a car anyway, or they lost their license due to DUI, or they're just plain crazy. Is it just me?

With the narrow exception that carneville cites - and it really is quite narrow - I'm with you. And I think it will be a long time - like forever - before it changes. It's a big country, we like our space, and there is no substitute for the freedom that a car provides. The cars may get smaller, and over the next 30-100 years fossil fuels will be replaced by batteries powered from nuke and geothermal plants, and perhaps other other technologies. But the car-less non-urban dweller will always be an eccentric in America, and subject to the questions it legitimately raises today ("rebuttable presumptions" might be a more accurate description of them).

 

[Carnevil9]

With the narrow exception that carneville cites - and it really is quite narrow - I'm with you.

Well, it doesn't feel narrow to those of us who live here; it just feels like real life. But I know what you mean......Carney

 

[jomar]

A) I am a certified tightwad,

B) I walk everywhere that it's possible to walk (fortunately, the grocery store is at the TOP of the hill. I walk uphill emptyhanded; I walk down burdened),

C) I'm involuntarily "retired" having been ostracized from my profession for failure to compromise my ethical beliefs. I'll go back to work if I'm ever able to locate a set of competent and honest colleagues similar to those it was my great good fortune to have been associated with for the last eighteen years of my career (I'm not, however, holding my breath— simply put, they don't make 'em like that anymore).

Gotcha. And I would suspect you live in a city, or in a neighborhood close to stores having the necessities.