Hybrids worse than Tahoe

[PackerFever]

I just got out of a Listing Appointment, (I sell Homes), with a Prius owner who writes for many envronmental magazines and is moving to Alaska.

Everything was going well, I usually get the listing once I acutally have a face to face meeting.

About half way through the meeting the homeowner looked outside and noticed that my H3 was parked next to his Prius....I am pretty sure that killed all the good Karma I had going in the meeting. Even after I showed him how much money he would be saving going with my company I believe he thought he would be selling his soul if he were to list with anyone who drove a Hummer. I kept it light hearted and told him how we get reasonable MPG compared to most SUV's and how we, my family, are not earth rapers.....his comment "But it is still a Hummer." Trying to remain friendly and jovial I mentioned how his other vehicle, a very old pickumup truck, was not doing anyone any favors...he said when he bought the new vehicle he did it to help save the earth and how since he is a researcher there is no doubt that Humans are the cause of Global Warming.

It was clear to both of us that we come from different worlds and I don't think he is going to work with me. So as he followed me out to my car and looked inside it...maybe I should have let him show me his Prius but I am not interested...mainly becaue of size, ability, and safety, I commented on the article quoted in this thread. About how the cost of Technology and Disposal actually makes the Prius a higher cost per mile vehicle than mine....he didn't belive me but decided to write it off as being worth it in order to do his part to save the earth.

I will follow up with him and if I don't get the Listing I will probably send him the stats and take comfort in knowing that he is paying more per mile, more to list his home with someone else, and is driving a smaller, less safe, vehicle and if he wants to go to his special areas to observe the earth and the human destruction we are causing he will have to drive his old and tired pickumup truck to get there....what an irony.


I did rev the engine a little more as I was leaving his neighborhood and giggled while I did it.