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Dan Goodin

@John @ianrosewrites @chu

A neighbor across the street was camped out in her running car for 45 minutes while talking on the phone. I finally approached her and asked if she might considering turning off her engine and she was outraged. She feels perfectly entitled to pump exhaust into my window. It's really maddening. Unfortunately, she and so many others like her, aren't likely to vote for common-sense climate legislation anytime soon.

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joel b

@dangoodin @John @ianrosewrites @chu There is a public park with a pair of baseball diamonds / soccer field very close to where I live. When they use the field for kids sport practice the entire parking lot is full of parents inside their idling cars either using their phones or watching the practice.

John Socks

@dangoodin @ianrosewrites @chu yeah. I was a Prius driver* for a number of years. I was low-key about it, but I kind of tallied the reactions of friends, family, and strangers.

The vast majority of them thought that I was doing something odd, and I took that as the takeaway.

* - as well as a frequent pedestrian and bicyclist

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