What a hypocrite!

That's hilarious!!!

Photoshop job?

could it be tongue-in-cheek humor?
It is a Hummer H2
so, maybe '2reehgr' is a parody of 'treehgr' ie: they love to the hug the H2...
or maybe they just know who they can upset...

Well maybe they converted it to electric or something ... tho I would think if one did that they would have put some sort of sign or emblem on it... I am actually converting cars to electric and have been tempted to get a hummer make it all electric and paint it lime green with a big red slash over the gas cap hatch!

The person is obviously delusional and probably a danger to themselves and others.

I don't think they're delusional, they just have a bad sense of humour.

ahahahahha! makes me laugghhh... the irony and the stupidity.

So ask yourself... what if it was electric or solar hydrogen or hybrid... would you buy one?

Maybe they use it to drive 9 people into the woods to hug trees

If it was "TreeHugger"... wouldn't the person use the "3" instead of "2" .. Three would sound better. I think this is just wrongly accused.

that's too funny!

I recently heard that driving an SUV is like riding an elephant when everybody else is riding a horse. Great analogy.

In world War 2, fighter pilots used to paint on the fuselage, representations fo all the enemies they'd shot down. This is the same thing, it shows the hummer has run over at least one hybrid.......

Stupid hummer driving vegans XD

What was the line in "Apocalypse Now" when a soldier was asked why he had a peace symbol painted on his flak jacket? "I was trying to say something about the duality of man"?

A rolling [or flipping] paradox.

More like 2REEH8TR...

On second thought, maybe this reads "Tree Hogger"

pretty much sums up the idiots in LA.

Thinks he's environmentally conscious ~
Drives a Hummer ~

Can you say "delusional" ~

Actually this guy:

http://puregreencars.com/Green-Cars-News/Biodiesel/Green-Biodiesel-Hummer.html

is an environmentalist and a Hummer lover.

Can you say, oxy-moron?

elepski - no, I wouldn't. For the reason that texafornia gave: it's like riding an elephant. I have a Fit and I can't imagine driving anything much larger -- parking alone is a nightmare and my little car can squeeze into some pretty tight spaces!

Actually, in an issue of Fast Company a few months back (cover article, easy to find), there was a mechanic who converts cars to biofuels, electric, hybrid, and/or hydrogen powered, with mostly stock parts. He did just that, on a Hummer. He cracked whatever code/limiter there was on tampering with it's fuel system, and converted it, getting some astronomical mileage. At one point at an auto convention in Detroit, there were GM execs around his Hummer in the parking lot of the hotel he was at, ogling it. He started it for them, and it made no (or little) sound.

So, it is indeed possible that a Hummer driver could also be a Treehugger. Maybe this was the car?

The Fast Company article was titled, "Motorhead Messiah", and myself, my friends, and all of my co-workers have every word memorized and we still start arguments about it over lunch. All of the gearheads who had put aside their crazy electric car schemes are plotting once again...

i think they will end thier life by trying to hug a tree with the hummer going 65mph. Maybe it runs on biodeisel, I means I see thousands of idiots in Seattle that think because the use bio they are immune to being part of the Gasshole generation.

Many hummer owners that I know are fairly aware that they're a rolling target for criticism so chances are this guy is having fun with it.

I converted my H1 Turbo diesel to run on Biodiesel and adapted it to be WVO/SVO ready. It also acts as a rolling billboard for the local biodiesel stations in LA [ conserv fuel and USA ]. It's interesting to see peoples heads explode when they see a Humvee running on veggie oil. It's totally misunderstood. Especially considering my diesel truck gets the same mileage as my old jeep cherokee and my friends new JK Wrangler. Yet it weights twice as much, and can haul 2-3x the payload of those smaller jeeps, so it shows how inefficient some of these other vehicles are. I guess Hummer is done one good thing for the automotive industry. That is distract people from noticing that Jeep and Land Rover gets the same if not worse mileage.

I do a fair bit of volunteer route for the BLM and Forestry Service with my truck along with a few other off road folks for trail and park maintenance, so hopefully that mitigates some of the damage I'm doing, but in the end I'm kinda screwed no matter what I drive in that regard [A diesel pickup would suit my job just fine, but it would get no better fuel economy and plus the old h1/hmmwv is easier for me to fix]

It's a tricky question to answer. Even if you got 50 mpg out of these trucks, people will still find a reason to complain. It's supports the military industrial complex [well where do you think Jeep and Land Rovers come from?]. It's too big for visibility, I can't see past them [don't tail gate]. It guzzles fuel [it also has much higher cargo capacity]. etc.

I agree that vehicles need to suit the role they are built for but this is where I make my point.

It's the individual.

If you buy an vehicle that suits your needs, great. If you need to carry a few thousand pounds of equipment off road, the Hummer is ideal for that. The h1 is still produced as the K12 fleet variant for Government use for Fire trucks and Border Patrol vehicles. That's an idea role for it. If your job requires off road access routinely while carrying many tools then its an ideal application for this as well, although a large diesel pickup truck would suit the same role [and consume the same amount of fuel].

I don't think anyone really debates that. The problem is when people buy them to convert them to rolling, tarted up discos, or as status symbols, or as grocery getters.
It bugs me because it's a waste of the vehicles capabilities.

On the other hand is the result of our free choice in this country. If you want to waste resources so you can pick up little jimmy in an 8 passenger suv or van, that's your choice.

One way to combat waste is to end the cycle of buying new cars every few years, and start regulating the supply a bit. No new cars enter the system until an old car/truck is retired. Limit cars to one per family. Require commercial licenses for vehicles over a certain GVW.

None of that is likely to happen. But hopefully we can see more biofuel compatible small diesels in our future. An H2 with a diesel engine will almost double it's mpg. But its not likely to come out. There was plans for a 4.4L Duramax H2 to replace the vortex gas model, but now the H2 is being discontinued in a few years it'll be a moot point. [I'm surprised non of the environmental blogs picked up on the h2 being discontinued...] The H2 was a bad idea from the beginning. It should have been a diesel from the begining but I guess the target market [suburban people movers] didn't want a "noisy" diesel, they wanted gas. Oh well.

Fuel costs will eventually drive most people from status symbol suv's into status symbol cars over time anyways.

I live in LA and there are TONS of these "tree hugging" hypocrites, its actually quite the norm - ugh & grrr.

I vote for a new law:

NO SUBURBANS OUTSIDE OF SUBURBIA. (that goes for any SUV).

Keep those things out of the city so the rest of us can bike without the fear of getting plowed down by some over-consuming, space hogging, self concerned, mass procreating nut case.

This city has ZERO bike lanes. There needs to be more laws (and BIKE LANES) to make it biker friendly!!! Supposedly LA is setting an example as a green city -(http://www.lacity.org/mayor/iee_gla.htm)

How bout a tax break for those of us who are doing more than that H2 driver! Sure they eat S&%# at the gas pump these days, but that is not doing enough. If you live in LA then write the mayor and tell him to make this city biker friendly!!!

Write the mayor at mayor@lacity.org and demand BIKE LANES and incentives for bike riders today!!!

yup Paul, you are talking about "Jonathan Goodwin, a biodiesel conversion specialist and founder of alternative energy start-up SAE Energy, has built a car that can run on ethanol, hydrogen, biodiesel or natural gas--all fairly clean fuels. It gets the equivalent of 40 miles a gallon. And it's a Hummer.

He's already converted about 60 H2 Hummers from gas to diesel and about 100 H1 hummers, including a Hummer that can burn the whole menu of clean fuels."

linkies :
http://puregreencars.com/index.php?news=155
and
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html