Maintaining a Sense of Humor about Eco-Friendly Transportation

I’m still in touch with a decent number of my friends from college, and my communication lines here are further strengthened by my service as “class secretary,” meaning that I collect and edit submissions from my classmates for the school’s magazine.

I take a fair amount of abuse from people who make fun of my overt environmentalism, which ribbing, to be honest, I actually kind of enjoy.  It’s all good-natured, e.g., when my friend from the Boston area, Rob Buffum (pictured lower right — we don’t look like that anymore) , invited me to stay at his place and wrote me, “Sure thing!  Just rent a hybrid at Logan and shoot on over.”

Some of this ragging is downright hilarious, e.g., this piece that another old friend sent on the role of government in auto design; I hope you’ll enjoy it too.