#60 Toyota Prius
February 7, 2008 by clander
Over the years, white people have gone through a number of official cars. In the 1980s it was the Saab and the Volvo. By the 1990s it was the Volkswagen Jetta or a Subaru 4WD stastion wagon. But these days, there is only one car for white people. One car that defines all that they love: the Toyota Prius.
The Prius might be the most perfect white product ever. It’s expensive, gives the idea that you are helping the environment, and requires no commitment/changes other than money.
The Toyota Prius gets 45 miles per gallon. That’s right, you can drive 45 miles and burn only one gallon of gasoline. So somehow, through marketing or perception, the Prius lets people think that driving their car is GOOD for the environment.
It’s a pretty sweet deal for white people. You can buy a car, continue to drive to work and Barak Obama rallies and feel like you are helping the environment!
Some white people decide to pull the ultimate move. Prius, Apple Sticker on the back, iPod rocking, and Democratic Candidate bumper sticker. Unstoppable!
There are a few ways you can use this to your advantage. If you are carpooling to an event or party you can always say “can we take your Prius? my car doesn’t get good mileage and I feel guilty driving it.” And bam! Free ride! 
Also, if you see a white person in a Prius you can say “wow, that’s great to see that you’re doing something for the earth.” The white person will feel very good about themselves and offer to drive you home, to Ikea, or drop you off at 80s night.
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i dont have a car at all. i take the bus everywhere. all those liberal yuppies feel guilty when i tell them that and then envious when i mention that my saved gas money is spent on pot…
I don’t buy into all that global warming, hysterical enviromentalist crap. This whole green economy sham isn’t worth a damn either. All you have to do is look at the nutbags pushing that idiotic agenda to see that it doesn’t hold water.
“So somehow, through marketing or perception, the Prius lets people think that driving their car is GOOD for the environment.”
I thought this comment was very clever, and very true.
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The Prius is actually better for the environment because its a low emissions vehicle meaning there is is about 4 times less pollution when driving any distance when compared to what would be produced by a normal 25 to 30 mpg vehicle when driven that same distance. This is because the electric system makes the 11.9 gallon tank last longer than even a 30 gallon tank and allows you to go further on less gas causing less pollution. So you not only fill up for cheaper but you fill up less often and therefore the emissions you produce are at a safer/lower level than any other car and even though it still produces the emissions its better for the environment than any other vehicle as well because as long as you have the car it will produce less emissions than other vehicle.
The prius in the END will be worse for the environment well all the prius owners have to dump their VERY toxic Nickle batteries into landfills therefore poisioning the earth all over again for what.. for the few years they thought they were saving the environment but really were killing it in the end because of their arrogance.
it still takes 5 to 7 years of driving the car to make up for all the environmental damage the carbon footprint the battery leaves.
Bullshit. When the fucking Prius goes down the road at a snail’s pace holding back cars that non gays drive, the efficiency of those normal cars is decreased, and fuel is wasted many times over. Park the gay prius and let real people drive efficiently down the road. Any questions?
Actually, driving slower makes your car more efficient. It burns gas at a higher rate to drive at higher speeds, you ignorant boob.
i am a loser with too many names and too much time. i think the reason why i’m skrewd up is cuz my dad rapes me… Whte pwr
Pruis=white dork+baby boomer work addiction+hypocrite a–hole
Whoever buys a Prius should be shot out of a cannon into the sun.
As a conservative, I personally hate the earth and am Pro- Nuclear War. However, I recently bought a 2010 Toyota Prius. I didn’t do it for Gaia, but rather for the cost savings when Peak Oil kicks in and Gas hits $25/Gal. At which point my Prius will be sexier than a sports car.
Prius = Money Saved + Sex Appeal =
by the time that happens, medicare will not exist to support your baby boomer senior citizen ass, youll be dead. no 20yr old ass for you grandpa!
damn. thats alot of hate. were you abused as a child?
I’ve owned a Prius for the last four years and it’s the best car I’ve ever owned. My Ford Taurus and VW New Beetle were junk heaps. Toyota makes the best cars by far. And, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with doing something for the environment. By the way, I regularly get in excess of 50 mpg on a tank of gas. The best was 56.7 mpgs. It’s nice not giving extra dough to the Islamofascists.
You are exactly the person they are talking about in this. You just made my day a little better by taking this website seriously.
It is not that your Prius is great, is that you used to drive to terrible cars. Driving a hybrid compared to driving a normal car (let’s say one that gets over 25 mpg on the street and 30 on the highway) for “helping the enviroment” is like taking an aspirine to cure cancer. At the end, billions of gallons of oil is use for electric plants, the making of plastic materials and heating. Plus to make your “Prius” lot of gas is needed for extracting the metals that goes into your car’s batterie, plus of course the destruction that mining itself does to the eviroment.
If you want to be a true eco-hero drive a used 1994 Geo Metro XFE that gets 42 MPG. You know, reduce, reuse, recycle.
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