Hypocrisy defined

This morning I walked past parliament to have a catch up with someone from church. As I went past the main gate a new Crown car rolled up and drove in.

In New Zealand we seem to be on a big ting about "being green" and "zero emissions" and "carbon footprints". This has been spouted by our various ministers and this current government is making this issue a key platform for the next election.

So what do you think this new Crown car was...


A Prius??? No. Too small.


Maybe an LPG powered Falcon??? No. Obviously too Australian.


Well at least it wasn't a Hummer.

BUT it wasn't far short of it...

It was a new Chrysler 300..


That's anything up to 6.1L of V8 fuel sucking, environment bashing grunt.


Now personally, apart from them being butt ugly, I have no probs with such a vehicle. However if you are running an "everyone should be reducing their emissions" message... it is a bit rich buying these.