Don’t you just love that new car smell when you bring it home from the dealership? I know you do, you can’t fool me! Yes, it is from the incredibly toxic gases escaping from the plastic, vinyls and glues, but still – it smells pretty good for a chemical factory. That being said, if you [...]
Remember back when I wrote about Zipcar removing all the cars in my neighborhood? Well, it looks like people are worried it might start happening in other cities too, and people are not too happy about it. First up, this is the email I got from them when I complained and closed my account: We [...]
When you carry out your trash at home on the next collection day, you’ll be sending more trash to landfills than the entire Subaru manufacturing plant in Lafayette, Indiana (SIA). The Subaru plant was the first auto assembly plant to achieve zero landfill status – nothing from its manufacturing efforts goes into a landfill. It’s [...]
I wrote about it the other day, but it seems that the bill is dead according to AutoblogGreen: California Assemblyman, Ira Ruskin has withdrawn a bill that would have put a one-time fee of $2,500 on the sale price of new gas guzzlers. If it made it into law, it would have been American’s first [...]
Finally, something the government does that I am all for! The California Assembly is expected to vote this week on the California Clean Car Discount Act (terrible name, guys) which would impose charges and grant rebates based on your vehicle’s emission of CO2. Whoo hoo! I have talking about this kind of thing for a [...]
Anyone else think that they are trying to scare the public away from being interested in electric cars again? It’s bad enough that the American car manufacturers keep telling us that higher MPG standards will add thousands to the cost of new cars…but yet the Prius gets 45 MPG around town and costs only $21,000. [...]
If you were in the market for a new car and had to choose between one that gets better miles per gallon and one that emits less pollution, which would you pick? I am not necessarily talking about if you are in the market for a hybrid, but rather if you were looking at a [...]
