EcoGeeks get all the girls?

[The Mike]

Just in case you needed another reason to care about the environment: It turns out girls dig guys who dig environmental technology.

According to a study conducted by GM as part of this year's Challenge X competition:

Nearly 9 in 10 women (88 percent) say they'd rather chat up someone who owns the latest fuel-efficient car versus the latest sports car.
Eighty percent of American car buyers would find someone with the latest fuel-efficient car more interesting to talk to at a party than someone with the latest sports car.

More than 4 out of 10 (45 percent) 18- to 43-year-olds say it's a fashion faux pas nowadays to have a car that's not green or environmentally friendly.
Little did we know we've been fashionable all along! (OK, maybe not me - I'm still tooling around in my old Sentra.) No one seems to have told 80 percent of America that it's actually greener to keep driving your current car than to invest in buying a new one.

Nonetheless, this study is good news. And when I buy my first new car (never!), I'll be sure to let everyone know how green it is.

GM's Challenge X is a yearly competition among college students to make GM vehicles more efficient. This year's competition had students from 17 universities "re-engineering" Chevy's Equinox to make it more efficient and reduce its greenhouse impact, while retaining consumer appeal.

Solutions the students put together included using alternative propulsion systems like fuel cells and hybrid technologies, and using alternative fuels like biodiesel and ethanol.

This year's winners are from Mississippi State. They increased the fuel economy of the Equinox by almost 40 percent with a hybrid-electric biodiesel engine.

That's hot.

Interesting but I'm wondering if people answer the way they do because its expected?

 

[Shai]

 

[tylerd]

i'm sure this beauty will have the babes fighting over each other to converse with you about the environment. believe it or not, this piece of crap goes 120 mph.

 

[FQRizzo]

Yeah, but all of those girls have hairy legs...

 

[Shai]

i'm sure this beauty will have the babes fighting over each other to converse with you about the environment. believe it or not, this piece of crap goes 120 mph.

 

[The Craw]

i'm sure this beauty will have the babes fighting over each other to converse with you about the environment. believe it or not, this piece of crap goes 120 mph.

yeah. whoever said "the vette gets em wet" didnt know what the hell they were talking about.

 

[Shai]

Yeah, but all of those girls have hairy legs...

..you guys are killing me.

 

[tylerd]

i think i've got it!!!

the only place she can sit is on your lap!

 

[The Craw]

i think i've got it!!!

the only place she can sit is on your lap!

you mean "on the stick shift"
this thread is heading to the sandbox PDQ.

 

[Vader AL]

i'm calling b.s. on this "poll". it's the feel good answer but not the real-world answer for the "girls" included in the poll.

 

[tylerd]

you mean "on the stick shift"
this thread is heading to the sandbox PDQ.

my first thought, but i'm glad you wrote it.

 

[Bannister]

i'm calling b.s. on this "poll". it's the feel good answer but not the real-world answer for the "girls" included in the poll.

Exactly. It is like when they say looks don't matter and they prefer someone with a great personality.

 

[Jen]

Exactly. It is like when they say looks don't matter and they prefer someone with a great personality.

I prefer someone with both.

 

[Darth Loki]

I prefer someone with both.

Well thanks for settling for me anyway

 

[Nolocke]

And here I thought that girls were just with me for my doll collection and all along it was my piece of crap hybrid

 

[The Mike]

Well thanks for settling for me anyway

You complete me....

 

[Jen]

Well thanks for settling for me anyway

Well, in my eyes, I did not settle.

 

[OK SITHLORD]

And here I thought that girls were just with me for my doll collection and all along it was my piece of crap hybrid

Sorry to hear that dude but all the gas you save with the hybrid you now can take the chicks to TACO BELL instead of MCDONALD'S

 

[EVILFACE]

Pretty sad when you need a car to get a chick.

 

[Darth Loki]

Well, in my eyes, I did not settle.

Thank you for not getting your eyes checked