A local who has the Tea Party plates on his car took exception to my blanket statement that those plates mark environmentally insensitive individuals. My claim that I’d never seen cars with (e.g.) greater than 30 MPG EPA rating, with Tea Party plates, is now wrong, courtesy of three outliers that he photographed and emailed to me. I haven’t bothered to check the EPA ratings, but these at least aren’t low MPG trucks.
The gist of that prior posting still stands. But as a matter of fact, there are some vehicles with Virginia Tea Party plates that do, probably, get over 30 MPG. Contrary to what I said in that posting. I don’t think that’s the norm, but mea culpa.
Still seeking a photo of that rarest of beasts, the Tea Party Prius.
As to why I call them the Tea Party plates, well, that’s what they are.
https://vatp.org/2010/11/13/va-tea-party-plates/
Three photos courtesy of an email correspondent:
Just to be clear — because I didn’t blur the plates or anything — it’s legal to photograph anything you can see from a public right-of-way. At least here in Virginia. Commercial use of such an image may fall under some different set of statutes. But posting such an image with no claim to copyright and no intent to harass is fair use here in the Commonwealth.
