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attempt to earn “green” building status and reward car owners considered environmentally friendly, TheBlaze.comnotes. Places such as theUniversity ofCentral Florida, Ikea in south


Orlando, and the Amway Center are just a few that are giving hybrids preferential treatment. For now, the hybrid-only spots aren’t policed like a handicapped parking spot. But defenders are hoping the public will shame people into compliance. “Right now this is a promotional thing, so I don’t think we’re


seeing enforcement,” Jon Ippel, the city’s sustainability manager, told the Orlando Sentinel. “It’s more peer pressure. Hopefully the evil eyes [that] violators get will force them to comply.” A spokeswoman for the city agreed. “There are the social-


pressure aspects of it that should restrict it for those people it’s reserved for,” Cassandra Lafser told the Sentinel. She included such “green” parking in the same category as special spots that merchants set aside for pregnant women. Blogger Doug Powers’ comments are priceless: “If you are


handicapped, pregnant and driving aVolt, they let you drive right in the front door.” (He also muses that“sustainability manager” is the least sustainable of all government jobs.) What? I pay an extra 10K for a Prius orVolt so I can promote


my green bona fides and suddenly I deserve the same respect as a woman who is spending nine months carrying nascent life? Balderdash. Is this what we have become? The propagation of the species


is somehow equal to putting a windmill on your house or separat- ing your cans and bottles from your wet garbage? From my point of view,motherhood is about as“green” as you can get.The rest is all eyewash.


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Volt is greater than the Camaro the new“SteveMcGarrett” drives downWaikiki every week. Then maybe theVolt drivers will have to park in the back row. P.S. – City spokeswoman Lafsermust be froma different plan-


et than the one the rest of us inhabit. She honestly thinks that “social pressure” is going to keep someone from parking in a spot reserved for aVolt or Prius, but it can’t keep them from parking in a spot where a person in a wheelchair or on crutches needs to park? She needs to wake up and take a look around.


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