Most of the time, our bad decisions are not ignorance, but simply a lack of will. Indebtness is at record levels in part because people don't save. About 60% of Americans are overweight from lack of diet and exercise. Is education going to change that?

Many adults still act like a child growning up that wants to ignore green vegetibles for a second helping of ice cream. It's just putting one's desires over the long-term good.

Go into toy stores - how many Prius's? I got an ad from a tire company. All these places want to have pictures or toys of a Hummer - ice cream with all the toppings.

We grow up and maybe learn to rationalize our behavior a lot better than taking responsibility. I could dig and find the statistics, but I think everyone knows the average vehicle is about 1000 pounds bigger over the past 15 or so years. Vehicles like the Suburban have popped up all over the place and all of them say they need them - right. Rationalize that it's for safety (questionable), occasionally (or never) to fill it with lots of people/stuff. And BTW, if you drive a small hybrid, indiscriminately dismiss them as pinko treehuggers - right, just like Utah Sen. Robert Bennett (R). Heck, I'm a hard-charging professional, and that gives me the licences to do whatever!

I'm tiring of apologizing for hybrids and dispelling all these myths. What I'd like to see is more negative publicity against gas guzzlers that turns them from status symbols to objects of shame. Pride fuels vehicles like the Hummer. I yearn for the day it becomes unsexy and out of the toy stores/ads.

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