So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.
Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.
I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???
A Moral Dilemma
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A Moral Dilemma
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Re: A Moral Dilemma
You'll probably have more people notice you if you get the Prius.KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.
Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.
I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???
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Re: A Moral Dilemma
KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.
Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.
I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???
Just get the convertible Prius.
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So are you going to tell the Ladies you meet that you are an Environmental Engineer? NTTIAWWT, Or should you have a car suitable to you Vegas identity.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Now that's the real moral dilemma, whether to tell them that he's an environmental engineer or that he's a disease-ridden veggie....or both.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:So are you going to tell the Ladies you meet that you are an Environmental Engineer? NTTIAWWT, Or should you have a car suitable to you Vegas identity.
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Re: A Moral Dilemma
I don't see the dilemma.KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.
Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.
I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???
SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Prius and SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Mustang that weekend. Which one you are driving doesn't make a difference.
Maybe I'm part of the problem rather than part of the solution, but I think it's different than energy saving or conserving or whatever. For instance, if you recycle your bottles, it's not like somebody else is going to put those bottles in a landfill. Those bottles are NOT going into a landfill, because you recycled them. With the cars, it's different, they will both be used that weekend, no matter who is behind each wheel.
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Re: A Moral Dilemma
You'll get much better gas mileage in the Prius.KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.
Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.
I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore
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Re: A Moral Dilemma
fantine33 wrote:I don't see the dilemma.
SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Prius and SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Mustang that weekend. Which one you are driving doesn't make a difference.
I agree! Plus maybe the other person who comes along is planning to drive a lot further, maybe to the Grand Canyon. So you'd actually be doing the environmentally friendly thing by taking the bad gas guzzling car away, and forcing them to drive the Prius all that distance!!
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Re: A Moral Dilemma
TheCalvinator24 wrote:You'll get much better gas mileage in the Prius.KillerTomato wrote:So I'm headed to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for a long weekend (4th of July). I have two choices of rental car (I'll need one for all the stuff I'm going to be doing). I can either get a Mustang convertible...or a Prius.
Now, you all know I'm an environmental engineer. I SHOULD get the Prius. Plus, it'll be 900 in the shade, so I probably won't put the top down much. And the prices for both rentals are about the same, so it can't be solved budgetarily.
I really really should get the Prius, but does it make me a bad person for considering the coolness factor of the 'Stang???
Yeah, but how's the hottie mileage?
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Re: A Moral Dilemma
Driving to the Grand Canyon, the Prius would get worse milage than a similar all-gas car.sunflower wrote:fantine33 wrote:I don't see the dilemma.
SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Prius and SOMEBODY'S going to be driving the Mustang that weekend. Which one you are driving doesn't make a difference.
I agree! Plus maybe the other person who comes along is planning to drive a lot further, maybe to the Grand Canyon. So you'd actually be doing the environmentally friendly thing by taking the bad gas guzzling car away, and forcing them to drive the Prius all that distance!!
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Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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In Vegas who needs a back seat?Peter5858 wrote:Oh, for Chrissake. It's Vegas. The only real question is which of the two has the more comfortable back seat, if you know what I mean.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
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