Fark linked up a prime example of "Never Let the Facts Get in the Way of a Good Rant" with this tasty morsel on the Indy 500:

In an environment where gas prices are skyrocketing [...] is it really a good idea to show the world how profligate we can be with our gasoline?

Dedicated race fans will be the first to note Indy is run on Methanol. The rest of the article is even more soft-headed "I'm-not-an-enviroweenie-I-just-play-one-on-TV" drivel. I respect hardcore environmentalists because they can at least argue their way out of a paper sack (they're wrong anyway, but that's another story). This guy, well, this guy's just sad.

Almost as good were the fark comments themselves, where learned such interesting tidbits as:

• The methanol used at Indy is actually 90% gasoline (reality: nope, pure methanol.)
• Formula-1 cars use methanol too, which is why fuel fires in both series burn with a clear flame (reality: F-1 uses pump gas purchased from a French oil company. Makes a very nice classic fireball when improperly handled, as has been demonstrated several times in the past.)
• Methanol is made from petroleum (reality: you can make it a bunch of different ways, none of which involve crude oil.)
• Natural gas is a by-product of the refining process (reality: the fires at oil refineries are burning off a lot of unusable and weird byproducts of the refining process. None of which happen to be methane.)
• The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is not actually an oval (reality: depends on your definition of oval I suppose, but looks damned oval-ish to me.)

All of the above were stated, of course, as utterly irrefutable truths. God, I love the internet!