Im the bad guy?

Question

ok, yeah the earth is warming and this is not about that

My science teacher asked us to get the most pollutive car we have in our driveway.

I took a picture of my mom's boyfriend's

1967 Coronet R/T 440

i estamated it get 9 mpgs city and 11 highway tops!!

we were all sharing them and telling why we have the car. My turn came around and i explained how we drive it in the summer atleast 5 times a month and only got to shows, and go messing around with it. ( burnouts etc.) Well my teacher was upset saying that cars like the one i shared is what is doing the most damage...... even though almost everyone else had there moms SUV...??? he asked me " do you have any other cars like this?" i said "no but we are going to get some more power out of it." and now i have to reshare with a more "fuel efficent" vehicle and i feel like the kid who made us redo it.

Why did he think it's bad to have a car with low mpg's ?

isn't this free choice to own this car?

Answer 1

Sure it's your choice on which car you should drive.

Don't let others tell you how to run your life.  You just get one crack at it.  Live as you see best for yourself.  You cannot ruin the planet.

Global warming is a religion.  Don't let the liberal priests guilt you into living your life the way they want you to live.

Answer 2

Well for now it's free choice, but everybody has to live on this planet, and your car certainly isn't helping it stay alive.

Plus, SUVs do get some mileage, 9 city and 11 highway is God-freaking-awful!

Answer 3

The whole global warming agenda isn't about stopping pollution or reducing fuel usage.  It's about control and taxation.  Once you understand the underlying agenda, everything else makes sense.

Just as an example, consider why you are told to ride a bike or get a different car when no one says one word about the Indianapolis 500 burning thousands of gallons of fuel and emitting more pollution than the average person could for years of driving.  It's the money that makes the difference.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against car races, but if the earth were really in danger because of burning gasoline, wouldn't wasting gasoline for entertainment be the first thing to be axed?

Worth thinking about.  Again, follow the money.

Answer 4

Excellent answer hybrid!

I did my bit this weekend....stayed at home and watched the V8 supercars racing in Adelaide.

No pollution in my backyard!

Answer 5

Your teacher is being ridiculous but I would like to comment back to this answer:

"Sure it's your choice on which car you should drive.

Don't let others tell you how to run your life. You just get one crack at it. Live as you see best for yourself. You cannot ruin the planet.

Global warming is a religion. Don't let the liberal priests guilt you into living your life the way they want you to live."

Global warning is not a religion. If everyone simply lived for themselves and did as they pleased, we'd probably be in even more h**l than we are now.

Answer 6

Hmmm, sounds like a stereotypical progressive/liberal-minded teacher.   I don't see much of a point to the assignment other than give a little hummiliation to the students.  Make them feel bad about them/their family to usher in a little indoctrination perhaps?

OK, I digress about the brainwashing part, but its obvious he wanted the lesson hit close to home.  He could have easily said large cars/trucks pollute more...but he wanted to illustrate how prolific those cars are and make you look at yourself(did they get extra credit if parents drove a Prius? )

Is a show car a problem?...h**l no.  Total up the yearly mileage and compare that to the 15,000-18,000miles a year that the aveage driver racks up.  No real comparison.

Can you tune that max-wedge for emmissions...yeah, but you need a dyno, a sniffer, many hours, and a carb genious ...not as easy as tuning for power.

F-em, drive what you want.  Its called Capitalism!

PS, the Indy 500 has been run on Methanol for decades, and just recently (and much celebrated for some reason) switched to Ethanol.  Wood Alcohol to Sugar Alcohol? big woop!

Answer 7

Your vehicle pollutes almost 3 times as much as an average car while driving in the city. Sure, it's a free market. I would venture to guess the "mom SUV" is polluting a great deal more than you per year based on the low amount of miles you put on your car.

Answer 8

blow 'em off!! he asked for the most pollutive car you had in your driveway and you did just that!! Yes, that car is polluting the atmosphere 2 to 3 times faster than soccer mom's lexus suv, but so what!!! These cars are few and far between.  If you lived in a colony that only drove 50's through 80's vehicles, then I'd understand why he got all bent out of shape, but since they're classic cars, not many people have them anymore.  don't worry about the stuffed shirts.  it turns out that this ethanol that Uncle Sam has mandated is doing twice the damage that the old gas without ethanol was doing!!

Answer 9

Here's what I'd do, drive around until you find a beat to sh*t metro, take a picture of it, oil leaks, smoke coming out the tail pipe etc.

Explain how this econo box is polluting more then your Coronet ever will, because it's in good tune and you care about this car, unlike the Metro. True if the Metro is in good tune it can get up to 40 MPG, but how many Metro's are in good tune? Not many, most see 30 MPG, leak out into the watershed, etc.

Of course you'll fail, but the look on your teacher face should be priceless.

Answer 10

Sure everyone has a free choice over what car to drive.  You also have a free choice to go around insulting anyone you want, but that doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with it.

Basically when we burn fossil fuels like gasoline, it emits greenhouse gases.  The worse mileage your car gets, the more greenhouse gases you're emitting by driving it, and the more you're contributing to global warming.

That's why your teacher feels it's bad to have a car with low fuel efficiency, and he's right.  It's certainly not your fault that your mom's boyfriend owns this car, but your teacher is trying to make the point that we should all do what we can to minimize the damage we do to the environment.  By driving around in a car that gets 10 mpg when you could just as easily be driving a 30 mpg car, you're doing unnecessary damage to the environment, and helping to speed up global warming.