Bijan Plikat and Marianna Silva keeping it slow.
While most high school students are spending the summer speeding around in cars from one event to another, a group of Carlsbad High Schools students have decided to drive 55 in the right hand land and then to wave their hands out the window to encourage other drivers to slow down as well, according to a story in Today’s Local News.
After learning about how their counterparts in Europe deal with high fuel costs, many of the roughly 150 juniors and seniors in the foreign language classes have started a campaign to “slow down and save gas. . . “It’s taking responsibility for my own actions,” said Naomi Tirronen, who graduated last month. “I do need to save gas and money. If everyone didn’t buy gas as often, maybe demand would be lower and prices wouldn’t go up so high.”
Good luck, kids. Driving 55 mph on SoCal freeways probably makes you more of a hazard, especially if you’re distracting people with all that hand waving. But it’s a nice thought.
[Link: Today’s Local News]
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OK, see how you feel about 55 after you get a job.
WOW! Lets drive around aimlessly wasting gas to teach people to use gas wisely. Good work grads
Well… at least they’re carpooling?
Instead of commentors being so cruel and sarcastic, maybe you should actually read the article and become more than shallow readers. Honestly, at least they are doing something as oposed to sitting on your hind legs waiting for the gov. or some other group to think of some new resource to exploit and waste.
Maybe the campus police officer should distrubute marijuana to students in order to lower their driving speeds…
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