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Blowing up a $60,000 SUV to save the planet

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Ryan Mickle seems like a sane guy. He’s well spoken, intelligent and pretty successful. He’s also environmentally conscious, to the point that he realized he didn’t need his two-year-old Range Rover Sport when his job relocated him to San Francisco.

But that wasn’t enough for Ryan. Tired with what he calls an “incremental approach to addressing climate change,” he wants to make sure nobody else makes the same mistake he did: buying an inefficient car totally unsuited to his needs. A self-professed “believer in the wisdom of the crowd,” he launched onefewer.org to let online voters decide the fate of his car. Mickle promises his gas-guzzler will be taken off the road, never to emit another hydrocarbon.

Unless, of course, the voters decide to set it on fire.
shadowtrekker

61 responses // Blowing up a $60,000 SUV to save the planet

  • I bet America votes to blow it up.
    Bigdog_mike
  • Yeeeah, fire would kind of defeat the purpose. I say convert it to biodiesel and donate it to a wildlife conservation group that could get some use out of a good off-roader.
    Allsunday
  • Scrap it to make an environmentally friendly tank to fire 120mm High Explosive shells at all the other SUVs on the road.
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • and destroying it will do what to save the planet, again?
    plusaf
  • ill buy it for 5k and he can donate it to Al Gore's electricity bill.
    clayjj05
  • what a mo mo, more money than sense!

    I pledge he unplug his life and never use energy again.

    stupid is a stupid does

    God bless america
    God bless Big oil
    mrburns
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  • GRATS ON GETTING THROUGH THE BIG BAD STORM

    I turned on my lights today and they worked so thanks mr burns. Then i got in my car and turned it on, and it worked. so thanks again mr burns
    clayjj05
  • Move to San Francisco then smoke weed one night and next thing you know you've created a website to let a bunch of strangers dispatch your Land Rover? Nice.
    damnneargenius
  • I'll buy it for $2,500 and he can donate that money to a Childrens Hospital for Cancer Research.

    If he really doesn't want that vehicle, THAT badly, he can donate my cash to a worthy cause, such as a childrens organization and I'll have a good used vehicle.

    What a better way to take my GREEN and help a worthy cause? I recycle and will use it sparringly. I drive about three thousand miles a year and this will last me a long time.
    refbum
    1 response to this
  • I'm glad he's getting rid of it now at least...
    RudyRudell
  • Needs to give it to mr burns to drive his big oil Ego around
    TexasPatriot67
  • The point is to never drive it again...and have some fun.
    TopScruffy
  • what a dumb fuck

    the smart "eco" thing to do would be to recycle it.

    just a thought
    RoBot_rOcKer
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  • this guy is confused
    dfmoreno
  • at least he's trying, but what a weirdo
    indiankungfu
  • although his idea is a little out there it should at the very least be a good example to celebrities and big names around the world to make some sort of change.
    THump704
  • I knew this sort of thing would happen eventually. It's taken so long, though. Those filthy machines should have been banned from production years ago. Now, someone should figure out what is the best way for anyone to put their SUV away permanently. Ryan's approach is to garner as much attention as is possible with his Rover. That's only one, though. I would like to see all SUVs on the road today crushed for scrap.
    pablomelendez
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  • I think a conversion would be the best way to go, this guy seems to have the money so drop a diesel in it and run 100% biodiesel made from waste grease.
    shadowtrekker
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  • watch this comment being used here
    I hope he doesn't do something stupid like set it on fire or blow it up or chuck it in a landfill. That would be the opposite of green. It would be red.
    azalea
  • Range Rovers usually appeal to a really perverse side of me, but I've been coming to my senses, and remembering all of the stupid assholes that have cut me off in their Range Rovers, while pooping out noxious gases.
    mransom
  • 'I wept because I had no shoes, then I met a man that had no feet"

    Wouldn't someone that had no transportation at all be glad to have that car?

    Blowing it up doesn't do squat for the enviroment since there is still a mess to clean up, it just causes more in the waste products produced by destroying it.
    Argon18
  • Just strip the parts, and try to reuse it for other fuel-efficient vehicles. Whatever he does, he is at a loss.
    merckrx
  • this goes to show what little leadership we have
    plainjane
  • watch this comment being used here and here
    How stupid. Becoming an extremist to the point of burning or destroying your 60K car.

    Sell it, take the money and donate it to victims in Darfur. There is much more than "gas emissions"
    petarro
  • There is no sensible or “green” way to dispose a perfectly functional car before its service life is finished. Destroying or recycling it before it is obsolete it’s just not sustainable. If he wants to get rid of it he should sell it to somebody that needs an SUV – reusing is probably the most sensible and sustainable possibility.

    Next time he should think before buying.
    wakka
  • F him . he's just doin it because he's in a new town and wants to get some poon , so he's like "hey ladies , look at me , i'm so rich i can afford to waste a land rover , and i'm also sensitive and care about the environment ." what a tool.
    malathion
    3 responses to this
  • GHOSTBUSTERS....go on sing that theme song...you know you wanna.

    You know how when you were a teenager and your parent was like CLEAN YOUR ROOM...it's disgusting. Something smells....fix that. Stuff that you heard but because they said it sooooo much you started not to care?

    Or maybe instead of your parent(s) it's your boss....

    Well that's how it feels with pot, this disgusting election and, of course, everyone and everything to do with the environment.

    Nothing like creating a black hole of apathy.

    Pat yourself on the collective backs or what was that coined phrase in the article.....crowdsourcing...that's it....
    J_Jammer
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  • i think destroying the vehicle is a pompous and ignorant waste -- something only a wasteful American would do -- and then consider it a contribution to the environment.

    There are plenty of struggling organizations and poor folks out there who would love to take his vehicle, and use it to transport elderly patients, bring food to the hungry, or at the very least recycle it for scrap, but no, Mr. I need attention has a better idea. What a moron!
    Incredulous
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  • Yeah, Jeff Leurs did that, and they gave him 22 years......ofcoarse he didn't have an SUV so he started firebombing everyone else's
    NoGodsNoMasters
  • The things pagans would do to preserve the creation.
    Kylsport
  • Um...that's kind of douchey...

    Apparently I'm not the only one that’s pissed at the fact that he has enough money and arrogance to be willing to scrap an SUV and get publicity in the process...WTF
    doni83
  • Wastefulness is the root of many of our current problems...and this article is a great example.
    doni83
  • As everyone already pointed out he should just convert it to run on waste grease or something.

    I'm surprised no one has made a business out of delivering bio-disel to people who have converted their cars and trucks.

    My understanding is that that is the big draw back -- there aren't enough places (nearby) where people can just fill up on alt fuels.

    Well, why hasn't some enterprising person thought of just bringing the bio-disel straight to your house and filling it up that way? They already do that for people who live in the sticks and rely on propane.

    If it's a 2nd car that you don't need to fill up every other day -- then home fuel delivery might be a good option, no?
    crob80227
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  • If he really is set on destroying it, why not donate it to a fire/rescue department to use for training? They'll rip it apart, but at least it'll have the benefit of training first responders.
    sgwhites
  • PUT SOME D'S ON IT!!
    phukna
  • well hes making a statement. plus its for kicks and laughs. but yea he could do something a bit more productive...
    pvl1
  • he should turn it into a veggie mobile,
    and let it make food runs for the elderly.
    phukna
  • This is the kind of idiocy that gives actual environmentalists a bad name. I'm sorry but if, only two years ago you didn't know the consequences of buying a vehicle like this, you can only be a shlub. I'm not going to, and I hope no one else, legitimizes his epiphany by participating on his website. Maybe if he pledges to be in the vehicle when he torches it.

    He really seems the type more suited to making beer bong videos for Youtube.
    neocongo
  • He just wanted his 5 seconds of fame. If he really cared about the environment, he wouldn't have bought an SUV in the first place.
    jimenagamio
  • Catching the car on fire can pollute the environment. I would suggest recycling it and converting it to an all electric car. Then, he can either keep it himself, sell it, or be kind and donate it for free to a small, non-profit organization.

    Creative Publicity

    It could be awesome to see the car on blowup. Especially if he put fireworks in the car, but please do not get hurt.
    kaecvtionr