Is getting a Hybrid SUV like getting a Diet Coke with your Big Mac and fries?

Not really. Ford has two that qualified under the CARS program (Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner).
 
Many of the people who order the diet coke with their Big Mac and Fries are doing so not because of calories but because of glucose levels. Regular soda is basically sugar water and hence will raise blood glucose levels very rapidly causing hyper-glycemia especially with people who are diabetic. The Big Mac and Fries are complex carbohydrates which gets converted to glucose over a period of time and hence is less dangerous to these people.

The age old snicker about people ordering diet soda with their fast food meal is purely out of ignorance and is not a fair commentary on those who must order diet soda because of their health.
 
Actually getting a Big Mac and Fries is like getting SUV as gas guzzling as a Hummer.

According to the United Nations 2006 report "Livestock's Long Shadow", the livestock industry creates more green house gases than all the cars, boats, planes and trains in the world COMBINED.

By skipping meat just one day a week is the carbon dioxide equivalent of changing from the standard sedan to the ultra green Toyota Prius!
 
I say no because Diet Coke is.. gross and still bad for you, but if you are going to buy an SUV anyways, you may as well compromise and buy a hybrid one, if you have to money to do that. I see it as more of meeting in the middle =]
 
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