In this time of war for oil, economic interdependency due to oil, and escalating oil prices, didn't this past weekend's two races seem a little excessive? I have a hard time listening to the NASCAR dads that put Bush in office and the Coca Cola Five Hundred on prime-time TV bitch and complain about the cost of gas and at the same time pay hundreds of dollars to watch a bunch of people burn thousands of gallons of oil and gas as they race around in circles.
That's why I propose this happy medium. I like to call it the Prius 50. That's right, let's put away the high-speed dangers that our kids shouldn't be watching and focus on what our kids should be seeing, conservation. Let's do away with NASCAR and replace the gas guzzlers with the Toyota Prius. Want to see how good your driver really is? Put him or her in the same car as the guy or girl next them. Let them drive around in circles in a hatchback for 3 hours. It doesn't have to be 500 miles. Let's say 200 miles. Believe me, it's all the driver could handle. The idiots that love watching things go around in circles for hours still get their race. The rest of us get the gasoline that would have been wasted, and our kids learn that they can have fun and conserve as well.
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