• February 14, 2012

You're the wieners!
Not only did thousands of you people play the EcoDrivingUSA car game challenge/lightning round, but you won, and you saved the world — one car’s worth, anyway! — and most importantly you savagely trounced Power Line. Good jerb! [Best EcoDriving Skills]

{ 58 comments }

Carrie_Okie December 10, 2008 at 1:10 pm

How many Whore Diamonds/Truck Nutz is a carbon offset thingy worth?

Doglessliberal December 10, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Kev-O-Tron December 10, 2008 at 1:11 pm

I haven’t driven a real car in over two years due to an unfortunate and completely unplanned merger of alcohol and vehicle operation.

But today, I feel, we are all car driving citizens.

SayItWithWookies December 10, 2008 at 1:12 pm

That’s amazing, considering that if I drove in real life like I did in that game I’d be either dead or in jail. Or a Kennedy.

AngryBlakGuy December 10, 2008 at 1:12 pm

…”One year of carbon off-sets”?! Yay!!! I’m going to go and start a tire fire now!!!

Kev-O-Tron December 10, 2008 at 1:13 pm

I generally suck at life so this achievement should provide enough self-confidence to maybe get me laid this week. maybe. probably not though.

shortsshortsshorts December 10, 2008 at 1:13 pm

WE FUCKING RULE THE INTERWEBS.
Ask any of the websites we have infiltrated and destroyed. Not this time though!

qwerty42 December 10, 2008 at 1:14 pm

I think I’m going to cry.
but first, let’s do the numbers:
Rank…Team…………….Score…….Number
1……Wonkette Readers….48,527,505..1676
2……Power Line Readers..6,488,657…201

NoWireHangers December 10, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Carbon offsets?! What about something we actually need/use like alcohol/drugs/sex? Will your “offsets” buy those things you dirty green hippies!

Gob December 10, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Fuck yeah. I’m buying a H3 to offset the offsets.

Doglessliberal December 10, 2008 at 1:16 pm

[re=195716]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Yes, me, too. I crashed every time.

freakishlystrong December 10, 2008 at 1:16 pm

Did we win on hits only? Cuz I crashed the motherfucker EVERY time.

tunamelt December 10, 2008 at 1:18 pm

[re=195713]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: I don’t even own a car. And I live in Los Angeles.

Mr Blifil December 10, 2008 at 1:19 pm

So now we can pollute to our heart’s extent right? Whenever some jagoff complains about our imprint on the world ecosystem, he hand over the coupon with a smart retort. Something like, “Suck. On. This.”

dano December 10, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Whoopie! I’m going to celebrate by driving my gas guzzling Ford Bronco to California.

ManchuCandidate December 10, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Can we trade these offsets for booze and hookers?

Doglessliberal December 10, 2008 at 1:22 pm

[re=195733]tunamelt[/re]: that is impressive. Good for you.

bago December 10, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Achievement whores! Although with the given amount of alcohol consumption around here I think there was a little ethanol boost involved.

Aloysius December 10, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Don’t go too crazy, Wonketteers. The printing of that certificate cost us the carbon offset.

tunamelt December 10, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Also, this seems relevant.

hedgehog December 10, 2008 at 1:23 pm

I’m standing in front of my house emptying every aerosol can I can find into the atmosphere.

Frickin’ hippies.

4tehlulz December 10, 2008 at 1:26 pm

I am going to light a barrel of oil on fire in celebration of our acheivement.

Advocatus_Diaboli December 10, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Way to go, Wonketters. Now get back to work and make me some munnies!

V572625694 December 10, 2008 at 1:28 pm

[re=195740]ManchuCandidate[/re]: No booze and hookers (yeah, right present this certificate at your local liquor store), but Senate seats are definitely available for the right consideration.

jagorev December 10, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Wow, Wonkette actually did something good for the world? I don’t think I can comprehend this.

magic titty December 10, 2008 at 1:29 pm

[re=195746]tunamelt[/re]: Yo link ain’t linkin.

shanemcgowan December 10, 2008 at 1:30 pm

I personally equaled the combined scores of Celsias, CleanMPG,Climate 411,EcoModder,Enviroblog, Environmental Capital, Fans of CNN Eco Solutions, Green Daily, Green Options, Green Tech Gazette, Greenbiz,Hybrid Car Review, It’s Getting Hot In Here, Moral Equivalent of War, OnEarth – Greenlight Plenty people,PriusChat ,Sustainablog, The Alternative Consumer , The Energy Collective, The Hypermiler,The Intersection ,The Oil Drum, and Triple Pundit.

Mustang December 10, 2008 at 1:31 pm

That damn game crashed my computer every time I tried to play it, so I want no part of it.

WagTehGod December 10, 2008 at 1:31 pm

I have so many people to thank …. Allah, for giving the Middle East all that oil; corporate America, for laying me off so I would have time; Nintendo, for giving me these mad gamer skillz, etc. ….

sezme December 10, 2008 at 1:32 pm

[re=195716]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Word. I got 40,000 points once for driving to the destination … in reverse.

Lascauxcaveman December 10, 2008 at 1:32 pm

Carbon offsets? Color me disappointed; I was really hoping for set of green LED TruckNutz.

Naked Bunny with a Whip December 10, 2008 at 1:36 pm

That giant Earth-crushing space-plant tentacle looks delicious! *munch munch*

Kev-O-Tron December 10, 2008 at 1:36 pm

[re=195763]sezme[/re]: That’s the kind of thinking that sets us apart from the Powerline folks. That kind of thinking and the anal sex kind of thinking.

robanybody December 10, 2008 at 1:40 pm

Now we can all pile into an oversized jet and fly to a distant city, where we’ll rent high-powered American vehicles and drive, one to a car, to an overlit, overheated, oversized auditorium where we’ll gather on a massive, solid-teak stage to claim the statuette.

By the way, did someone fiddle with the thermostat? I’m sweating like a greedy, materialistic pig.

Min December 10, 2008 at 1:41 pm

We’re number one! We’re number one!

Mr Blifil December 10, 2008 at 1:42 pm

[re=195769]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: Well after sezme did say he/she ran the course in reverse. Or as Republicans like to think of it “ass backwards.”

So eventually it does always boil down to the anal sex.

bago December 10, 2008 at 1:47 pm

That’s ass-forwards, thank you very much. As they say, “always forward, never straight”.

FreshCliches December 10, 2008 at 1:49 pm

[re=195707]Carrie_Okie[/re]: Screw that discretionary spending shit. What’s the current certificate-to-hobo-beans exchange rate?

tunamelt December 10, 2008 at 1:51 pm

[re=195757]magic titty[/re]: Will this work?

mattbolt December 10, 2008 at 1:54 pm

What does 2nd place get, a year’s worth of BICYCLE emission offsets? HA! Fuckin’ Powerline.

Serolf Divad December 10, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Ha, what’s sad is PriusChat. We squashed them like… well, like a big animal that walks over a bug so tiny it doesn’t even realize it squashed anything.

Keram2 December 10, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Oh yay. I got permission to pollute or something from The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. They are kinda experts on polluting.

robanybody December 10, 2008 at 2:03 pm

[re=195804]Keram2[/re]: Yeah, kind of like getting an Ethics Award from Gov. Blagvladovich or a Tolerance Award from the Mormon Church.

finallyhappy December 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm

I couldn’t get my car to the first turn. Were there instructions or something? Not that I am ever playing again.

CARCUNTZ!(tm)-R-Us December 10, 2008 at 2:07 pm

[re=195797]Serolf Divad[/re]: “…a bug so tiny it doesn’t even realize it squashed anything.”

You mean like… a Prius?

qwerty42 December 10, 2008 at 2:17 pm

[re=195769]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: “That’s the kind of thinking that sets us apart from the Powerline folks. That kind of thinking and the anal sex kind of thinking.”
let’s not be too fast here …they are Republicans after all.

God Hates Frogs December 10, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Now can we all play “Kick Blago in the Testicles”?

I bet we could score some committee chairmanships or a nice highway contract.

TGY December 10, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Don’t need the offset, but thanks. i haz low emishon vehicule.

PrairiePossum December 10, 2008 at 2:41 pm

I’d like to thank the Academy for this award.
Mom, I couldn’t have done it without your support.
And a big shout out to God and Jesus!

rmontcal December 10, 2008 at 2:44 pm

OMG this entire thing is FTW! Put it in the Wonkette book.

Mustang December 10, 2008 at 2:54 pm

[re=195856]PrairiePossum[/re]: You like Wonkette! You really like Wonkette!

slithytoves December 10, 2008 at 3:12 pm

Sorry – I didn’t contribute a thing. I couldn’t score more than 0 on that fucking game. How anyone could play for hours is beyond me. Solitaire holds my attention longer, and “Sink the Putt” 4evr.

Seth December 10, 2008 at 3:16 pm

How can we get this into the Wonkette election archive at the Library of Congress?

answerbird December 10, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Hey, I always thought we were a bunch of losers. Eat our dust Nate!

Maus December 10, 2008 at 3:43 pm

Note that we don’t calculate for how much pollution was created for us to collectively beat the steaming pants off Powerline.

facehead December 10, 2008 at 4:12 pm

I spend most of my nights lurking around parking lots, inflating people’s tires, and removing all unnecessary objects from their trunks.

bitchincamaro December 10, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Real Americans are demanding a recount.

finland December 11, 2008 at 9:59 am

wtf is a carbon offset?

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