From: Jonathan:
To whom it may concern:
Saw the
vehicle along PCH and went to the website. I like your message.
Very quick couple of friendly suggestions:
1) You may want to consider linking to the Cartalk website. Click
and Clack have come out in full force against the SUV as a family
car for those rough-and-ready, 4-wheel-drive trips to the mall.
(I'm assuming, of course, that you know about Cartalk; if not,
let me know and I'll clue you in happily! You'll like them.)
2) You may want to provide links to news stories or other web
resources related to the current proposed legislation to force
manufacturers to reduce "greenhouse" emissions
(specifically CO2, I believe) by 2009. How about a "click
here to write your lawmaker." A simple House and Senate
lookup by area (available from other .orgs) and/or form letter
might help.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
Jonathan:
good lord above, this is the first email to gaspig.com that
doesn't say "tree hugger, left wing liberal who just wants
to take away my suv"! and today i found the gaspig mobile
egged, a drive by egging, a hate crime! i took some photos,
re-parked the gaspig mobile and rolled into the office to find an
order for stickers and your cool letter. thanks!
i'd love to link to the cartalk website. what's their url? i
listen to npr quite a bit, but being technically impaired, i
haven't tuned into the show. i'm glad they're not
pro-suv-family-car.
there are some links to informative websites as well as some
headlines that refer specifically to the legislation in
california that i believe was signed into law today by the
governor. perhaps i could set up the web-pages to make it easier
to navigate and find current news like that. and i really like
the idea of posting a button that encourages people to write
their representatives... consider it done. (course being a big
organization-not, our staff-me, having other tasks-dayjob, may
take some time get it posted)
letters like yours are going to keep me rolling with this
project... thanks a million, i really appreciate it.
Pig
OK!
So, several things here. First, Cartalk is not really about cars.
They're sort of the thread that keeps everything rolling. You
WILL love it. If you don't, just tune in another time and you
will eventually be pretty much addicted. They're on the 2 NPR
stations in the area: 89.3 and 89.9 on weekends. (I'm in a bit of
a hurry at this precise moment, but I'll try to send you the
exact times.) 10:00 am Saturday AND Sunday come to mind. One
station's show is a week old, so you can listen to both and not
hear a rerun on one weekend.
You'll be able to get to their website through the NPR.org site,
and the URL MIGHT be cartalk.com. (I'll look into this for you at
a later time.)
I don't even change my own oil, and I think the show is
hysterical. It really isn't for motorheads. One of the guys is
actually a professor at MIT. The other runs the Good News Garage
in Cambridge, MA. It is hidden away in the boonies of a
residential area about a mile from Harvard Square, and they've
worked on my car many years ago. (When you listen to this, you'll
understand why this is significant.)
I recommend the show to any intelligent person for entertainment
value alone. For you, it should be required listening.
Second, a legislator lookup may be a tool that is available from
another site such as GreenPeace, WWF (World Wildlife - not the
wrestling folks.) You might consider checking out other
"best practices" prior to investing much time. A
short-term fix is simply to list local reps and their districts
and their addresses.
By the way you
liberal tree hugger, someday they'll be calling us foresighted
visionaries. Non-renewable resources will eventually run out - I
believe that's why they call them non-renewable, but what do I
know? At that time, we WILL be
required to switch to renewable resources, and we WILL be
required to do it in a foresighted manner that doesn't pollute.
So, rest assured that you're headed in the right direction. The
only way you can avoid the dreaded "environmentalist"
label is to make a zillion dollars in this pursuit - then they'll
call you a visionary business leader, and you'll eventually get
appointed to a government position to "serve" your
country.
Don't say we don't have diversity in our current administration,
after all, we have representatives of TWO oil companies running
the show. Republicans call this pluralism.
By the way, a standard in website design is to run the menu down
the left hand side. This doesn't mean YOU have to, but it is what
people have come to expect. Say, a column with links and an
indication of whether they're internal or external. This is just
my 2 cents. The stuff on the bottom is TYPICALLY administrative
stuff, such as licenses, agreements and other small print that
nobody will want to read.
Again, keep up the good work, and don't anybody's criticism get
you down.
- jonathan
Right on
Jonathan:
i'll certainly
tune into the show, maybe when this thing gets rolling, i'll call
in too. yesterday i found the website through npr.org and will
set up a link to cartalk. so when i tune in, i'll hear something
about the work they did on your car?? thanks again for the
website tips. my navigation bar is planted right at the bottom of
the page. one of these days i'm gonna recruit a web guru and sort
things out.
tree hugger, i couldn't agree more. one day we'll be mining old
land fills to get back scraps of the stuff we're filling them
with today. things will change, no doubt, but i wonder how bad
things will have to get before radically new approaches become
mainstream. the simple question i find myself asking people is
what's so bad about conservation? what does gobbling up more
stuff have to do with the pursuit of happiness? left wing
liberal, how dare we even suggest using less stuff? the gaspig
truck should be banned!
by the way, we're designing a smaller and cooler looking logo for
window stickers. if you like it, i'd be happy to send one off to
you...
Woops - no, they don't talk about my car, but they make lots of
fun of Harvard Square. (My car is entirely irrelevant, here; I
simply enjoy shameless name dropping.)
Confirmed: 10AM at 89.3 on both Saturday and Sunday.