Bumper Sticker Idea

[DS1]

might as well get them ready, anyway

[flordehinojos]

1. can you add a gas pump next to the $4?

[DS1]

2. No

You can

I prefer simplicity

[lonestarnot]

4. 4 PCE!

[flordehinojos]

5. i can't. don't know how to.

i just thought it would bring punctuation to your drawing.

[DS1]

6. It doesn't need it

You saw the $ and thought Gas. Mission accomplished :-)

[flordehinojos]

8. i thought you were looking for feedback.

didn't know you were just looking for praise or agreement.

[DS1]

9. Well

Mostly I was putting it up online so people who like it can print it and use it.

Feedback is welcome too, I just don't agree with yours. Adding a gas pump would simply clutter the sticker and make it hard to read at a distance. W. 4 bucks. It gets the point across. If you want to comment on the placement or sizing of the elements that's fine. If you want to think of something to add, that's fine too. You did, I don't agree with it. If you want me to immediately add whatever anyone who comes along thinks I should add we'll end up with a design-by-committee piece of junk. If you want to get offended because I don't agree with your feedback that's also your option.

[flordehinojos]

34. it seems you are the one who got offended with the feedback i offered you.

you are the creator. and you are entitled to your creation. you are also entitled to your rudeness.

[lonestarnot]

3. Yes a gas pump to go!

[LuCifer]

7. how about JAIL TO THE CHIEF!

n/t

[Snotcicles]

32. good one n/t

[LuCifer]

39. I wish I could take credit...

...but I can't!

[Warner2008]

10. I don't get it.

Am I missing something?

[DS1]

11. I'd vote yes

[Warner2008]

12. W $4.00?

$4.00 a gallon?

Why is that worth putting on a bumper sticker? I'm glad gas prices are going up and folks are having to park their SUVs. Americans are too wasteful. I ride my bike to the school where I teach -- or I walk.

[DS1]

13. Then don't

However, when prices do reach 4.00 a gallon, there will be people spending 5 to 15% of their daily earnings just to get them there.

Some people don't have a bicycle for an option.

[Lib Grrrrl]

14. Thanks A Lot

A lot of people, like me...who are virtually unemployed...are having a grand-royal BITCH of a time keeping the tank full enough to go for interviews, so that I might find a job.

And before you suggest public transportation or a bicycle, know that I live in a very rural area (no choice in the matter, I live with my mom, because I can't afford to live on my own) and there is no public transportation up here...and job opportunities are often 50 and more miles away. Like to see YOU ride a goddamn bike fifty miles one way to go to work every day.

Thanks for being so glad that my life is being made harder!

P.S. I don't generally wish evil on people...but seeing as how you are so happy that MY life is being made so tough...

[Warner2008]

15. Okay...

Then let's wait until poor YOU finds a job before we worry about global warming and sprawl.

Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

Grow up.

[DS1]

16. We must look awful small from all the way up there

[Warner2008]

17. Not small...

Just self-centered.

[DS1]

18. Oh, right

Gas is everyone else's problem but yours.

Explain how we're the self-centered ones?

[Warner2008]

20. Because...

People like you have been SPOILED into thinking they have a RIGHT to cheap gasoline.

How are we as a nation ever going to get off the OPEC I.V. if we don't curb our addiction?

All I'm saying... the MSM is doing all these stories about how terrible it is that gas prices are going up. I don't see why it's so horrible. I WANT people to consume less. Hitting them in the wallet is the only way we'll accomplish that.

[DS1]

22. Believe it or not, we're in full agreement on that point

But whereas you think screwing the poor into not driving at all and starving while big business fills their pockets is acceptable, I believe the auto industry should be jawboned into creating cars which get no less than 50 mpg by 2007.

You ride your bike to work and offer no solutions to those who don't have that option. You believe that since you ride a bike, you're not responsible for the Earth's warming and pollution, but you fail to recognize that responsible for it or not, you'll suffer the same consequences as everyone else. As an educator, surely you can see the irony in that.

[Warner2008]

24. You sure make a lot of assumptions about me.

Because I choose to live close to where I work -- and I don't have a problem with higher gas prices -- that makes me insensitive to the plight of the poor? If you only knew, pal.

In another post, you mention that you're moving closer to your workplace. BRAVO! That's the mindset people should have. There needs to be a renewal of America's cities, a rush to build UP instead of OUT. Instead, Americans want the McMansions in the suburbs, which is destroying open areas and clogging highways. Only now that gas prices are rising do exurbanites think, "Hmmm... maybe living thirty miles from my place of employment isn't so smart." I'm just sorry it's taken rising gas prices to open their eyes. You'd think the hours stuck in traffic would do the trick, but I guess that doesn't matter to people. It's sad.

[DS1]

25. I used to walk to work, lived down the road in fact

And yes, I made some assumptions about you because that's exactly the attitude you were telling us you had about the problem.


Now I've got a job, had it for about a month, but it requires a long commute and I'm fixing that. But one thing it does show me, in all too much clarity is the enormous amount of waste generated by our countries totally crap rail system. I commute against the traffic, and pass miles upon miles upon miles of highway parking lots, probably 100,000 cars, each with one occupant. Then I pass those same people going back home at night. This is going on in every major city in every industrialized country just about every day of the year.

The problem is that Bush's base typically can afford 4 dollar gas, even 5 dollar gas, but they'll HATE paying that much. They vote on their wallets, and if owning their car suddenly goes up to costing $600 a month in gasoline alone, then their will be a change towards efficiency. However, simply ramming up in a relative instant and telling people to 'deal with it' isn't the solution.

W. 4 bucks. Let people work it out on their own.

[Warner2008]

36. I'm in good company.......

Earth Day Founder's Daughter Says Gas Prices Not Too High

POSTED: 7:35 am EDT April 22, 2006
UPDATED: 8:41 am EDT April 22, 2006

MADSION, Wis. -- The daughter of the founder of Earth Day says she doesn't think gasoline prices are too high.

Tia Nelson, the daughter of former U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, said "we pay less for a gallon of gas than anywhere else in the world. And if we paid what the Europeans paid we'd wouldn't be driving vehicles that got 12 miles a gallon."

She said that if there's a silver lining in the higher gas prices, it's that people are driving less and companies are being forced to think about being more efficient.

Saturday is the 37th annual observance of Earth Day -- the first without Gaylord Nelson, who died last July.

Tia Nelson said it's a bittersweet day for her family but added that they are grateful his legacy lives on.

[Lib Grrrrl]

38. YES!! IT DOES MAKE YOU INSENSITIVE TO THE PLIGHT OF THE POOR

And I HATE you for that!!! Which is why you are on my Ignore list now...you are insensitive, cruel, and uncaring, and unfeeling, because it doesn't inconvenience YOU....you don't give a shit who it DOES inconvenience!!

I HATE YOU!!!

[Kire]

19. Inferior

that's for sure

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. You have some nerve!

Grow up. Indeed!

[Lib Grrrrl]

37. Tell You What

Let's see what you're so GLAD about...affect YOU negatively, and then see your reaction.

Let's say bike tires suddenly go up to unreasonable levels, and it causes YOU hardship. Then I come along and say I'm GLAD bike tires are so high...

You know what? You just made my ignore list. I don't need people like you in my life...or on DU. So you won't BE on MY DU. Goodbye.

[BlackVelvet04]

21. Isn't that special?

Not everyone can ride a bike to work........it's 12.7 miles to my work.

[DS1]

23. It's 65 miles to my work. And I'm looking for a newer place of course

Yet, I'm super-glad I bought an efficient sports car, which can both fly like a rocket and slow down to normal speeds and get 32mpg. Still, at this rate, I'll be paying in what some areas of the country would get me a full month's rent, in gas.

[Sal Minella]

26. If your heating bill last month had taken 25% of your income,

like mine did, you'd think it's a GREAT bumper sticker.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Yes because the price of gas doesn't affect you if you don't drive.

First, there are people who don't have the option of NOT driving, so I guess they should just suffer the price at the pump because people like you, are mad at SUV owners? You know that the price of fuel affects more than just pump prices, right?

[Left Is Write]

35. I'm glad you can do that. I wish more people could.

My husband can't bike or walk to work. It's too far for that. There are not enough safe bike paths in our area, nor is their sufficient public transportation.

You go ahead and be glad for $4/gallon gas. There are plenty of hard-working people out there who will suffer for it.

[Mr_Spock]

40. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

You'll do just fine here - taking folks on right away :D

[Midlodemocrat]

28. I love that! Where can I get one, DS1?

Gas here is $3.19, so it will be about 50 bucks for me to fill up. Today, while out shopping, I saw an awful lot of big ass SUV owners with * stickers who obviously couldn't afford to put the A/C on. Getting what they deserve for voting for that major asshat.

:applause:

[DS1]

30. Save it, print it

It's yours

[Snotcicles]

31. How about

ass before the W and ipe after?

[DS1]

33. I like that!

It would go well with my

BULL
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