Comments on: Toyota Pisses Off Environmentalists

By: pleiter

pleiter — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:25:29 +0000

I can top this story. Here in the People’s Republic of Maryland, a housing development proposed near BWI airport was stopped because of the environmental impact to an endangered species of WEED.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:36:39 +0000

I always like to remind environmentalists that where their house is (or their apartment or parent’s house) that it was once untouched land with trees and grasses where little animals once lived and played.

Build that road course boys!

By: Wolven

Wolven — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:21:26 +0000

I can’t believe the buzzards are the only “endangered” species there. I’ll bet if you give some of those environmental “scientists” (whack jobs) a few days on the site they would find another unique 15 species that live ONLY on those 691 acres. And then, it would be a global CATASTROPHE, an OUTRAGE I’m telling you, to allow the evil manufacturing company to destroy the globally unique environment that supports those 15 globally unique versions of rats, mice, worms, fleas, and ticks. Oh yeah, and that unique version of avian flu virus the ducks in those rice paddies carry.

By: WetWilly

WetWilly — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:26:22 +0000

If they raze a mountain and destroy a forest to build this facility, the Prius could never fix the image problems that it would create.

Unless Toyota says the reason they’re doing it is that it will allow Toyota to build even better Priuses. While the enviros sit there conflicted, Toyota can raze the place.

By: dolorean23

dolorean23 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:08:00 +0000

I’m all for saving trees my friends. Have you ever been to a natural cedar forest? Very zen man, very zen. Trees also produce all that wonderful oxygen which makes my car go faster.

Rice patties on the other hand aren’t exactly environmentally friendly. I say fill those in and damn the crowded living conditions on Honshu and having your own limited food sourcing for the sake of yet another proving ground.

By: Vorenus

Vorenus — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:07:49 +0000

Road courses for what… Camrys?

By: MidLifeCelica

MidLifeCelica — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:03:13 +0000

What if Toyota promises to leave all of the little animals killed by the cars on the road course for the buzzards to eat? Seems like a natural win-win situation to me…

By: stevenm

stevenm — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:50:49 +0000

Someone at Toyota who cares about driving cars quickly? Who would have thought we’d ever see that again.

Now if only they can build a new Supra without turning it into some grotesque 15-wheel drive hybrid GT-Rish monstrosity.

By: paris-dakar

paris-dakar — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:41:45 +0000

It’s the goddamn Spotted Owl all over again…

By: superbadd75

superbadd75 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:31:45 +0000

You are what the public’s perception says you are, and right now people see Toyota as the company that builds the Prius. If they raze a mountain and destroy a forest to build this facility, the Prius could never fix the image problems that it would create. It would be a seriously dumb move for Toyota.

By: GS650G

GS650G — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:22:01 +0000

Shigemi Oda, chairman of the “Society to Consider the Large-Scale Development Project of the 21st Century”, should gather together a bunch of green groups and offer to buy the land from Toyota. Then they can maintain it in the 17th century and Toyota can make a tidy profit from the transaction.

What, no money for that? They would prefer the government just say no and deprive the company of the use of their land? Think of the loss of tax revenue, my man!

How about if we compromise: Level the mountain and only test hybrid cars there, for a while at least. This would conflict the tree huggers to no end since we would essentially sacrifice rice patties and a forest to save the entire planet.

To quote the “in your face” commercial, “Unless you have a problem with jobs”

By: Samuel L. Bronkowitz

Samuel L. Bronkowitz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:02:36 +0000

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

The new Pious commercials with their greeny-touchy-feely vibe are so out of step with a company that makes tons of money selling really big vehicles.

By: Lokkii

Lokkii — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:01:42 +0000

The price of becoming Number 1….

Now that the evil GM has been deposed and destroyed, the environmentalists must look for a new target. Who is the biggest enemy of the people? The biggest carmaker, of course. Who’s the biggest car maker now?

By: vento97

vento97 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:49:31 +0000

Say it ain’t so!

You mean the maker of the ~~Pious~~ (I mean, Prius), the darling of the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, liberal enviro-frauds is hatching an evil plot hell-bent on destroying rice paddies?

OH SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!!!