# racist anti-environmental commercial

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 21, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-anti-environmental-commercial/58867 "2001-03-21T15:20:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-anti-environmental-commercial/58867/5 "2001-03-21T16:14:16Z")

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Ivorybill wrote:

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> Average household transportation expenditures by Houston, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia residents in 1997 - 1998 were $8,840 and $8,513 respectively, or slightly more than 20 percent of total household expenditures. [http://www.transact.org/Reports/driven/default.htm](http://www.transact.org/Reports/driven/default.htm)

Yeah, but remember, those household transportation expenses include the cost of that shiny new neighbor-envy-inducing SUV in their driveway.

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