<p>Prius-loving movie stars. This is very funny, and I don’t mean to knock energy conservation, which we should all strive for. The perpetually annoying Bobby Kennedy Jr. belongs on this list, too.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/18/celebs-who-claim-theyre-green-but-guzzle-gas[/url]”>http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/18/celebs-who-claim-theyre-green-but-guzzle-gas</a></p>
<p>yes that was the talking point on drudge and some other fantatic talk shows.</p>
<p>“yes that was the talking point on drudge and some other fantatic talk shows.”</p>
<p>Hmmm… did you forget the “s” or add an extraneous “t”? I’ll go with the former.</p>
<p>Don’t you love it when hypocrites are exposed. Conservation? That’s for everyone else but me!</p>
<p>I think there’s no greater hypocracy than demanding that anyone who tries to do anything for the environment should be required to don sackcloth and ashes, take a vow of poverty, and achieve a level of perfection their snide and cynical detractors consider unhypocritical. Is an actress who takes a private jet (which is presumably more destructive of the environment than a commercial jet, but may afford logistical options not available on Southwest) and drives a Prius more environmentally aware than one who takes the private jet and drives a Hummer? In fact, yes. You do what you can, when you can. The snotty and envious little people who put together websites like this are displaying a truly loathsome form of gossipy *****iness.</p>
<p>Who really “celebrates” these celebrities, but they themselves?! Isn’t it time for another “awards” night?</p>
<p>“I think there’s no greater hypocracy than demanding that anyone who tries to do anything for the environment should be required to don sackcloth and ashes, take a vow of poverty, and achieve a level of perfection their snide and cynical detractors consider unhypocritical. Is an actress who takes a private jet (which is presumably more destructive of the environment than a commercial jet, but may afford logistical options not available on Southwest) and drives a Prius more environmentally aware than one who takes the private jet and drives a Hummer?”</p>
<p>No greater hypocrisy than those who beat up Mark Foley, while extolling the virtues of people like Gerry Studds and gave him a House chairmanship after he had sex with an underage male page, right?</p>
<p>Kluge, someone has to speak for the snide, cynical, snotty, envious people. If not me, who?</p>
<p>Brandon’s mom, I toast your partisan ability to leap to a total non sequitur, if not your logic. Cheers!</p>
<p>Driver: You were born to don that mantle!</p>
<p>No, I’m disgusted with the rank hypocrisy overall!</p>
<p>Have these celebrities been all over TV condemning people who don’t buy Priuses?</p>
<p>I haven’t seen it, but I may not be watching the right (wrong?) channels. The only one I’ve seen doing that, once, is Leonardo DiCaprio, who apparently flies commercial.</p>
<p>There’s no hypocrisy in saving a penny here and spending a dollar there. Hypocrisy is when you condemn others for doing what you do. Is that what they’re doing?</p>
<p>Its kinda like me, when I order a diet coke with my fries. Save calories or smog where you can :)</p>
<p>And for everyone else, we can choose to offset our air travel impact by contributing to sustainable energy projects.</p>
<p>And for everyone else, we can choose to offset our air travel impact by contributing to sustainable energy projects</p>
<p>Mootmom, I totally agree!</p>
<p>Question is: Do they actually spend more time driving themselves around in their Prius, or in chauffeur-driven limosines?</p>
<p>They just make the waiting list longer for those who could really save a buck on the puddle-jumper.</p>
<p>If we discredited every idea because its advocates didn’t fully practice what they preached, a lot of churches would stand empty on Sunday.</p>
<p>Dadguy: Who is discrediting the idea of energy conservation? Not the website. Not anyone who has posted here. The idea is a great one. But these celebs, and many others like them, are a real hoot.</p>
<p>And I’m sure they share a ride in the airport shuttle to the airport and rent another Prius on the other end.</p>
<p>I interpreted the article as being about how hypocritical so many of these ‘celebrities’ are and not really about energy conservation.</p>
<p>I remember reading an interview earlier this year in National Geographic’s Traveler Magazine with Al Gore about global warming and the impact on the travel industry. The interviewer asked him bluntly about all the travel that he was undertaking at the time to promote his movie and the effect that his jet travel (could be private, could be commercial, I don’t know but it was a lot lately) had on the environment. His comeback was that he and his wife had supported some renewable energy microgenerators (solar or wind, I forget which) in poor villages on the Indian subcontinent. That made him “carbon neutral” (his words). I assume that means he personally has no net impact on the environment.</p>
<p>Now that’s a worthy cause that he is supporting, but what hypocrisy to use it to claim that it makes you “carbon neutral”.</p>