Very sorry to hear about this, but glad your insurance will cover it. Strangely enough, I was reading an article recently about "environmentally unfriendly cars" and the Viper
wasn't one of them. And here are some "fun facts" I read in that article that should help educate your local E.L.F. vandal:
All vehicles sold in the U.S. are green -even the big, powerful, and fast ones.
"Here's the reality: If you drive in a metropolitan area, once your new car or light truck's engine is warmed up, the air coming out of its tail pipe is often
cleaner than the air it ***** in through the air cleaner."
Better start "tagging" those darn Amish houses - they are the worst.
"The fact is that if you burned a cord of wood this winter, you'd need to drive a new vehicle
over 1.12 million miles to equal the harmful emissions from your fireplace." So if the average Viper has 8,000 total miles on it, one winter of a wood-burning fireplace is equal in pollution to
140 Dodge Vipers over their lifetime. So conserve paint, start tagging Amish homes instead.
And speaking of paint, your Viper vandalism did far more harm than good.
"The 2007 Bentley Arnage sedan features a 500-horsepower 6.7-liter V-8. Very few are sold, and of those, their annual mileage tends to be low. A curious emissions fact is that
painting a room with 1 gallon of water-based latex paint emits the same amount of hydrocarbons as driving an Arnage some 5500 miles." You will find that automotive paints, waxes, and cleaners emit
volatile organic compounds (VOC's). So when your targeted Viper gets painted thanks to you, VOC levels may be
1,000 times the background outdoor levels for several hours. You must be so proud.
While you may impress some of your less-educated friend(s) with your acts of vandalism, those in the know realize that you hurt the environment far more than
any Viper ever could. Ah, but ignorance is bliss isn't it? Unless you can find a Viper with 1.13 million miles on it you are wasting your time and hurting the very environment you claim to care so much about. Now go target some of those nasty Amish folks with their evil wood-burning fireplaces.* Or don't you care about the environment?
*Amish folks are anything
but nasty and most closely embrace the lifestyles that E.L.F. members would seem to embrace. No cars and no electricity - they live off the land. But they do so without resorting to terrorism to push their agenda.
