LA Auto Show: Green protesters return armed with bikinis and board shorts
The same group of protestors who took the stage with Rick Wagoner yesterday have returned on the second day of the 2006 LA Auto Show. This time, instead of confronting the head honchos of the Big 6 automakers directly, they've set up shop outside and staged a "Greenwash Car Wash". The protestors from Global Exchage, Rainforest Action Network, Ruckus Society and Code Pink are clad in bikinis and board shorts while washing down a HUMMER H2 in green sudsy water. There's also a green MC on hand interviewing people in the crowd, which numbered in the single digits while we were outside observing the event. We're sure they'd like us to report all their facts and figures about how the Big 6 automakers are contributing to global warming and should be doing something about it, but you've heard it all before. Truth be told, this is actually the greenest auto show we can remember. New hybrid models are everywhere, a plug-in hybrid was finally announced, and alt-fuel vehicles line the curb outside for jounalists to test. Well, now we can add a sopping wet HUMMER H2 to the list of green cars at the LA Auto Show.
You can find more pics of the protest after the jump.
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Misaniovent 7:10PM (12/01/2006)
If I lived in LA and had such a vehicle, I would totally have them wash my trailerless tractor trailer.
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Spalind 8:29AM (12/04/2006)
Damn it!! Why can't they at least be ATTRACTIVE protestors!!!
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Chris 4:22PM (11/30/2006)
More liberal morons, at least they're not inside the convention centre.
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Um... no 4:22PM (11/30/2006)
If they want positive attention via bikinis, they should hire some good looking females to stand out there holding signs... or at least ones that know how to wear bras so they're not playing soccer with their mams. ;)
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Wilhelmina J. Higginbotham 4:26PM (11/30/2006)
Where were they when the Highlander and RX went "green'?
Nowhere--that's what.
They are protesting because an AMERICAN company is about to get away with what Toyota has been doing for years.
When will we ever get rid of our fifth column in this country?
Tell me where I am wrong..
Are these people in fact inconsistent vis a vis Toyota/GM?
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Tyro 5:32PM (11/30/2006)
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
Looks like good clean fun to me!
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Wilhelmina J. Higginbotham 4:31PM (11/30/2006)
They were all to willing to BELIEVE THE HYPE when Toyota was doing it exclusively.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
Now you have more evidence.
Environmentalism is not about saving the planet, but rather defeating AMERICA's overwhelming resistance to socialism through the destruction of business and the economy.
They will not rest until you cower at the feet of the "SMART PEOPLE" like ALL Europeans currently do.
Don't let "experts" do the thinking for you. Be INDEPENDENT! BE FREE!!!
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Um... no 7:52PM (12/11/2006)
>> Environmentalism is not about saving the planet, but rather defeating AMERICA's overwhelming resistance to socialism through the destruction of business and the economy.
WTF
vs America... whose run by corporations? Is that what you mean?
Go Facism!
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Tom P 4:42PM (11/30/2006)
What about the waste of water they used in staging the demonstration? Is the green dye bio-friendly?
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6 5:50PM (11/30/2006)
Ugly liberal dykes in bikinis is a sure-fire way to get passer-by's to lose interest in your cause fast.
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Alex K 5:51PM (11/30/2006)
Hybrid SUVs are a joke and should not count for any "greenness" of an auto-company. Seriously, 30mpg in a hybrid SUV?! Big deal, tons of cars get 30mpg. They ARE protesting Toyota hybrid SUVs as well as American ones, it was not necessary to protest the Prius because it was an acutal improvement. Making a hybrid SUV is like spraying lysol on a bag of crap.
The only non-ignorant comment so far has been #2, who is 100% right.
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Richard Warren 6:05PM (11/30/2006)
Ok, gotta ask. So you're "green"
This automatically makes you a "liberal"?
You have concern about climate and energy usage you're a "moron"
You're concerned about the enviroment and that makes you a "socialist" seeking the downfall of American business and economy?
So is being conservative mean you only care about making money, eating up the earths resourses,deciding what you will watch on TV, the movies, how we put our religious views of the far right into government policy?
I don't think either view is that simple.
They have the right as citizens to protest (even if it's far fetched or crazy to some of us)just as those who have a different view retort.
Calling each other names and labeling does not get the job done. Pretty simple really, don't share the views, ignore.
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Ryan 5:20PM (11/30/2006)
"5. What about the waste of water they used in staging the demonstration? Is the green dye bio-friendly?"
-Sometimes "you have to spend money to make money" :-)
-I love to see people take advantage of being free to do what they feel is important to them.
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Chris 6:13PM (11/30/2006)
#2 Lefty environMENTALists don't have babes.
#3 Fifth columnists are all of the same ilk: GM/Bush/Wal-mart/war-on-terror Derangement Syndrome sufferers that would love nothing better than the complete destruction of the United States and her citizens. They worship at the Nipponese altar of Toyota, a company shown to be anti-environment and anti-American in its bid to topple American hegemony.
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Maxzillian 5:33PM (11/30/2006)
*looks out his dormitory window at the sleet and snowfall from the 19 degree weather that he managed to somehow navigate a sports car with summer tires through*
Doesn't look like global warming has hit around here. ;)
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John Carrie 5:54PM (11/30/2006)
This is too funny.
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Jonathan Neil 7:02PM (11/30/2006)
Thank you, Ryan for your thoughtful comment. Most of the others are absolute rubbish, especially the "liberal dykes" comment. Too scared to post your real name?
Fact is, the average consumer is still painfully unaware of environmental issues, and anything that can be done to open their eyes (even just a little bit) is something positive IMO.
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smokeydog 8:40AM (12/01/2006)
I'm not particulary interested in saving the planet for a bunch of left wing, hairry legged lesbians.
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Bob 9:13PM (11/30/2006)
You forgot lesbians, Richard Warren! Any girl that cares for the environment = lesbian, apparently. Aren't conservatives witty?
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Afi K. James 8:20PM (11/30/2006)
I'm sick of liberals and conseratives, they all make me sick.
Treehuggers & Gas Guzzlers can kiss my ass, I'm a natural gas lover and I Will begin that phrase very soon.
Treehuggers & Gas Guzzlers are just like democrats and republicans, all ignorant and selling out to the highest bidder.
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