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Holiday lights suck!
You probably make excuses for SUVs, too.
Greenwasher!
Death to cars!
More death to cars!
You sound like a politician.
 
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How to Win Arguments and Influence People

Sis

Sis said:
Don't give me that -- people need to wake up and smell the coffee! The fair trade, shade grown organic coffee, that is. Global warming is happening! Cars are part of the problem. We can't be encouraging people to buy them. We're only going to make our country's oil addiction worse.

So you say:
You're right, of course, and I'm sure you don't own a car and never will, right. But we don't convince people who are sympathetic by being all doom and gloom. Yeah, global warming is bad news and something we need to address, but let's talk about ways people can work to make it better. Walking and bicycling, of course. And public transit too. What if people who have cars commuted by public transport just once a week? They'd reduce their fuel consumption and greenhouse emissions by nearly 20 percent -- that's no small thing.

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