In Spring a bald man's fancy lightly turns

To thoughts of driving a convertible with the top down.

The convertible is no friend to hair. Oh, sure, it looks great when it’s being ruffled by the breeze and you are smiling and laughing with your passengers like something out of a car advert, but the minute you step out of the vehicle you look like the recipient of a non-lethal electric shock.

Needless to say, if you are a gentleman of a certain age this is somewhat less of an issue. My father, who sported Dudley Moore-esque locks in the early 70’s, now has a number two buzz-cut all over and a hairline reminiscent of Vladimir Lenin’s. When he drives with the roof down he can rest in the knowledge that his hair will look exactly the same getting out of the car as it did getting in.

Better a Hummer than a Prius

If you truly care about the environment.

Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.

The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius’ battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare.

“The acid rain around Sudbury was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside,” said Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin during an interview with Mail, a British-based newspaper.

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