Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003
Subject: keep up the good work!

I read an article about your tickets in Raleigh, NC's News and Observer this morning and I am thrilled to hear that your activism is stirring strong opinions. That means it's working! I was driving through my neighborhood yesterday and saw a man (ONE person) driving a huge Hummer H2. I felt such frustration that he would choose that earth-unfriendly car over a smaller one that can do the same job of getting him from one place to another. I plan on ordering some tickets and starting my own anti-SUV activism here in Raleigh. Thanks for this opportunity!!

Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003
Subject: Waste of time

You all need to get a life. You will never make a difference in what people drive and even if you did you will be long gone before you see any effect on the environment from any change that does arise. You are all a bunch of morons with too much time on your hands. I do not even own an SUV and I want to kick your ass. So from now on if I see any of you tree hugging hippies in any parking lot I am going to kick your ass.

Date: Thursday, September 25
Subject:

I read that wonderful article in the Boston Globe about you and I think it’s just great! Don’t let those common polluting thugs intimidate you! They are the ones who are assaulting our environment and should be ashamed! We may not be able to reach everyone on this, but at least many have heard and will do something about it. There are thousands of us who agree that when we pollute, we pollute our own nest as well. Kudos and thanks for your heroic efforts. I can’t believe you are out there doing this. Watch yourself though. There are the “ditto half-brain” fans of Rush Limbaugh who listen to his preaching against the environment (along with this vicious administration). Half the road rage is probably due to this inflammatory language. Limbaugh should be off the air for his anti-American stance against our environment anyway!! Robert Redford and many others would be very proud of you and thankful for what you’re doing!! KUDOS!!

Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003
Subject: (no subject)

I only wish I would have caught the A-HOLE who put the violation on my H-2 I
would have made him very very sorry. I would be willing to bet he would never
put anything on someone's car again.

Subject: Keep up the good work!
Date: July 14, 2003

To all the hard workers at Earth On Empty: I was very pleased to hear on TV about your group and the peaceful awareness campaigns it has taken on against the SUV world. It is nice to know I am not the only one troubled by the health and environmental problems caused or exacerbated by the SUV craze and what it says about contemporary American values. It is also interesting to read what some people have said about your campaigns, especially the negative comments. These responses appear to be primarily driven by out-of-control emotions and reveal a shocking lack of understanding of your message and naive, reactionary assumptions about the people behind it. This is all the more surprising considering that with the cost to purchase and maintain an SUV, one would presumably have to be pretty successful in the professional world, and therefore presumably somewhat intelligent and mature also, to be able to afford one. Apparently, this intuition is incorrect.

Kudos to your continuing efforts,A concerned citizen & automobile driver
Upstate New York

Subject: Thanks!
Date: July 9, 2003
Dear Madams and Sirs
I'm a student of geography in Switzerland ('Old' Europe as Dubya calls it). I just saw a TV documentary on an Austrian TV Channel about "Ticketing SUVs". It starred JD Tagger. I just wanted to express my appreciation for your taking action. From the perspective of global warming as well as of the growing number of lung deseases in some industrial countries I'm very concerned about the SUV problem in the USA as well as the growing SUV hype in Europa. It would be best if the USA adopted some law that would restrict gasoline consumption of cars; such laws exist in several countries. This would force car manufacturers to change their mind. I don't know wether this idea is realistic in any way. But I hope your actions will soon be successful - by what means ever.

My appreciation and greetings

Date: July 20, 2003

dude
you are doing far more damage to the enviornment by polluting the cities with your tickets by killing trees you are taking our oxygen away from us you liberal slobs will never get it humans are a drop in the bucket mother nature can wipe us clean like a student cleans a chalk board. our supposed dumping and polution by using fossil fuels is a joke and you know it right now oil fields once reported to be hi and dry are now slowly filling once again oild as you will find out is a substance that repatriates it self but you dont report that because it damages your socialistic agenda. As you read this email the electric you use to power your p.c where do you get electricity from diesel batteries are re powered by hey deisel , at the end of the day it all comes back to fossil fools but again you dont report that because it will destroy your liberal socialistic stalinist agenda. you people are swine and slime and my trucks run 24 7 baby deisel all day all night

the silent majority is speaking
viva la revolution the conservatives will rise

Subject: Brilliant Campaign
Date: June 18, 2003

I read about your campaign in the UKs Ethical Consumer Magazine - we need something like this in the UK - any suggestions ?

Subject: hurrah!
Date: June 30, 2003
FINALLY something I want to put on the Hummers and oversized guzzlers. I have felt helpless-- My dirty looks cannot penetrate through the windshield of my humble honda. My friend just handed me this fabulous piece. It's great. I have shown it to friends and they having eagerly noted your e-dress. I would love to slip this on the windshield of those arrogant car owners.

How can I get some?

Subject: what!You have got to be kidding me!
Date: January 3, 2003

Did you get tired of saving the whales, protecting the rain forest, or marching for animal rights?
I drive a Nissan Maxima, but if I want to go out and buy a tank that gets 2 gallons to the mile I will. This is still America, we still have choices, right?
I thought you people were supposed to be tolerant. Oh that's right, you're only tolerant if I agree with your left wing communist agenda. Let me guess, you voted for Gore and were upset because he got "the majority" vote and isn't president, because after all, you believe that we live in a democracy (mob rule) rather than the Constitutional Republic that God fearing men such as Washington, Henry, Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson designed.
Your heroes are people like Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court Justices like Ginsberg and Stevens.

Have a great day, and keep off the sidewalk, because I'm going to buy one of those Chevy Megatundras that take up two lanes and suck gas.

Subject: ticketing story in magazine
Date: October 10, 2002 8:41

To whom it may concern,
I read a brief story about your activities in the recent issue of "The Parking Professional" magazine. I am writing to applaud and support your efforts. The negative comments I read in the article, and then on your website, are as confounding as they are foolish. I feel compelled to reply to some of the more commonly-repeated whines:

"I need an SUV because I have four kids and six dogs." Right. You "need" the SUV as much as you "need" to have 4 kids and 6 dogs. Both were choices, and
both were selfish - we're not going to feel sorry for you because you have to show some responsibility for the choices you've made. That's what being an
adult is all about. You could have made the responsible choice to limit the size of your family, and to have one small pet, but you CHOSE not to - you were not forced to buy an SUV. That the only thing you've received is a
little ticket is insulting to those of us who CHOOSE to live responsible lives that produce a minimal impact on the environment, and who CHOOSE to organize their lives in such a way as to not require the use of a monster truck to get by.

"I lost my son in an accident, and I want my family to be safe." Get real, buddy. Your version of safety is misguided and ignorant. SUVs kill people because they're too big to be on the road with others, because people who drive them think they own the road, and because they produce far more TOXIC pollutants than is reasonable. Would you like us to thank you for sacrificing
the health of THE ENTIRE WORLD because of your personal tragedy?

"Woe is me, you've deeply offended me, how dare you, you should be excommunicated, you're evil, you're socialists, etc..." Oh, get a grip, people! It's a little ticket. I could list some other things that could have happened to your monster trucks - paint scratching, light/window smashing, exhaust pipe plugging, creative painting, etc.... You got off way to easy. If you don't have the intellect to comprehend the big picture, and how you're
actions impact others, then just throw away the ticket (because you wouldn't dare recycle it, like those damn socialists), light up another cigar, and shut the hell up. Drive your monster truck and teach your kids that the world doesn't matter. Maybe, just maybe, your kids will end up with more brains than you could provide for them. For the sake of the rest of the world that exists outside your personal little happyland, I hope so.
Earth on Empty folks - keep up the good work.

Subject: Expedition Owners of America
Date: August 29, 2002 4:43 PM

Hello,
I understand your cause, but down here in the Deep South, it's not about fuel economy, it's about survival. See, here's the way it is. Unlike the Northeastern Ivy League States, people down here actually do live in their SUV's. The simple truth is, "Bigger is better". There's more room to stretch out.

Also, since we're all generally overweight rednecks, we need the extra space for groceries. And most of us have found enough extra room to mount two gun racks without desecrating the Confederate Flag which we've hung in the back window glass.

Another benefit is the number seats for all those rug rats we seem to have. Since most of you Kennedy Club Liberals up there have probably never been down here in the Deep South for fear you would say something that would get your asses kicked, be advised that we are having a population explosion down here.

Perhaps we're trying to create a free thinking generation of kids to protect us from narrow-minded, self-serving, over-educated socialists that would rather complain about something as unimportant as what people drive than to tackle the real issues like educating our kids, protecting our country from people that want to take it from us and being 'One Nation Under God'.

The problem with you folks up there is that you can't see the whole picture. It's not about SUV's, or Citations, or even politics. It's about Freedom of Choice. I choose to drive an Expedition because I can. I live in a country that allows me to make a choice, freely and without prejudice. People have sacrificed their lives to uphold that privilege.

So, why don't you folks go out and do something a little more constructive with your time. We have lots of worthwhile programs down here and we could always use some extra volunteers. I just might even buy your lunch, but only if I get to drive.

Subject: Support
Date: Sunday, October 6, 2002 10:29 PM

I saw your coverage on the 11:00 news last night and I applaud your efforts. You are singing my song. I hope you might consider expanding your mission to included public busses that spew more noxious vapors
than SUVs. I'd also like you to include some reference on your web site or on the ticket to our men and women in the armed forces losing theirs lives in Iraq and Afghanistan so the SUV owners can guzzle as much
gasoline as they want. If we reduced our consumption of petroleum-based products then our government would not be forced to support repressive regimes such as the one in Saudi Arabia. I think there is much more that you can say about how our consumption of oil is
related to terrorist acts against the US. Thanks for making people aware of the impact that their buying decisions have on the public health, but I think you could go further in showing how our buying SUVs
is unpatriotic and threatens our national security.
Thank you for making a difference.
Keep up the good work.

Subject: Confessions and repentance
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 5:38 PM
Dear Tree Huggers,
I was the environmental Anti-Christ. I drove an olive drab army truck. It got 10mpg. I did use it to climb mountain roads to service television equipment. Often needing to winch my way up the trail. Ok. So this was alright I guess. Problem was I kept it after changing my job. Driving the monster to work in the city.

After seeing all the morons with massive SUV's idling away in a traffic jam with one driver, I had a change of heart. In fact, I am born again. I got rid of the monster and now drive a Toyota Prius, 45mpg average. Also put a 1000watt solar array on my home. I even feed power back into the grid.

After this lifestyle change, I am finding its not all that bad. I'm still a republican and a member of John Burch (hard core) but I pollute less and in a small way reduce Americas dependence on other countries. The morons who say its about freedom are self centered, Libertarian me types. This has nothing to do with personal freedom at all. Its about improving our nations strength. Tell the guy from NH. that he is supporting foreign governments with his fuel purchases. Hmmm. Live Free or Die. Bend to the will of Opec is more like it. Not so free after all. I'll be dammed if I will support the Saudi's government with my cash. Take the cash you save on fuel and cost of a monster SUV and go sink it into your community instead. Hell, go buy a new shotgun, start building a fallout shelter, stockpile rations for all I care, just keep it in America. By the way, my car was made in Canada and the US, not Japan.
Cheers!

Subject: SUV police
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 11:02 AM

Do you have nothing else to do with your time than to hassle people? At what MPG level do you assert your gestapo tactics? 10MPG, 15MPG? What do you drive? Are all your friends and relatives bicycle nuts? Do they drive Toyota Prius or Honda Insights? As John Stossel says... "give me a break"!

Subject: Your cause is such a great idea...
Here's my response... A ticket in return.

**EOE note - adult themed response