So I'm not sure I get this. Hillary said she wants to have "tougher" restrictions on miles per gallon for automobiles. In a Free Press article today, she said that we need to have a 40 mpg requirement by 2020 and 55 mpg by 2030 to help combat global warming. Great. That seems...like a little too late, don't you think?

Thirteen years from now, we need to require cars to get 40 mpgs. How about require everyone to drive motorcycles? They generally get 40-50 mpg. Or maybe make everyone get a Toyota Camry Hybrid, it gets 40 mpg and it is a big car. If you're going to do something big to save the environment, shouldn't you set the bar high? Seriously, with any goal you set, why set it super low and super achievable? To make yourself feel great when you achieve it well before your deadline?

Give me a break. Let's do something radical. Like give everyone their own airship/zeppelin. Or for you Family Guy fans, your own HindenPeter.

Here she is.

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This was purchased simply to get me to work and back.

In case you didn't know, I like to give things names. Personalities even. And not just the obvious things, like the teddy bear Giles gave me for my birthday one year (named Darryl Kile). Strange things. Like toys I find at baseball games. My computers. But most importantly, my car(s). I decided to name my '05 Accord something that reflected a European goddess, as it is a sleek, white sedan. So what did I choose? Why, Brünnhilde, of course! Shieldmaiden and valkyrie, how can you go wrong? So tonight I ordered a bumper sticker for her, the only bumper sticker she will wear (As a slightly-breakable rule, I'm against bumper stickers). Want a peak? Check it out here. It should arrive next week.

I will be graduating in a month now and am in need of a car. Never one to aim low, I'm asking you, the reader, to buy me one of the new 2006 Toyota Camry Hybrids with all of the options. It's less than $30,000 and looks just like the regular Camry, unlike many of the oddly-shaped first generation hybrids. Check them out here and here.

Let me know when you are ready and I will e-mail you the delivery address.