Jan. 5: I gotcher global warming right here

Don’t get me wrong; I love my Jetta. I’m on my fourth Volkswagen, in fact, because they are so much fun to drive. But this time of year I have a teensy little complaint:

Ohmigod, it is so friggin’ hot in here.

The climate control thingie in the ‘08 VWs is pretty vague, consisting of a dial with a blue dot on one end—representing cold—and a red dot on the other—representing… HOT. Right. Very good.

Here I have made a simple diagram of how warm the car gets within seconds of changing the climate control thingie.



I’d like to ask Volkswagen to exercise some restraint in their contribution to our energy crisis and maybe instead put some effort into engineering decent cupholders in their cars (my guess is that Germans drive while holding their beer steins and do not need the 24 cupholders found in every American vehicle). I don’t think they’ll listen. Instead, I’ll ask this of my passengers:

Keep your friggin’ hands off my friggin’ climate control thingie.