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Kevin Grandia: Portraits of P.O.'d Prius Owners


By Kevin Grandia, Huffington Post


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Prius owners are happy with their fuel-sipping cars, but are steaming at Toyota.

So far over 700 Toyota car owners have submitted photos to MoveOn.org's campaign calling for Toyota to withdraw its membership from the US Chamber of Commerce.

Here's a few of the photos to give you an idea:

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If you take a look at the whole photo set you'll notice this isn't the bunch of "extreme environmentalists" that I am sure Toyota and the US Chamber would like to think they are. These are just normal, everyday people who are ticked off that on the one hand Toyota sells an environmentally friendly image while at the same time they continue to be a part of the US Chamber of Commerce, an industry lobby group that is fighting very hard to convince politicians in Washington, DC to oppose President Obama's clean energy and climate change...

Click here to read the entire article...

 
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