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Eco-idiocy

Aug 2, 2007 11:00PM PDT

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I remember stories as a kid, about a car...
Aug 2, 2007 11:27PM PDT

... I think it was a Volkswagen Bug... that was drafting behind a tractor trailer on the highway to save on gas. It supposedly hooked bumpers with the truck somehow, and was dragged a hundred miles or so, past where the originally intended destination had been.

There is a difference between being frugal and being dangerously cheap.

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He will be hailed as a great pioneer...
Aug 2, 2007 11:35PM PDT

after he kills himself with this stupidity. Let's hope he doesn't kill anyone else in the process.