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What's New |
Wild Hybrids vs. Mild Hybrids?
Drivers of gasoline-engine automobiles often compare how their vehicles perform in city traffic vs. on the highway. Those considering hybrid models may not realize it, but there are also mileage variations in the cars that continue to be
the rage among the environmentally conscious.
What's the difference?
Common Dreams News Center Desperate for Copy; Publishes Rofsky
Better World Club President Mitch Rofsky thinks that politics needs to be based on the real facts, not media distortions. If you are interested, you can find his latest thoughts about the coverage of the exit polls
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Travel Specials |
10% Discount on Fantastic Tours and Spa Destinations. Plus, a Special Mother's Day Promotion if You Book Now.
Through a special partnership with Gutsy Women Travel, we've arranged a 10% discount for Club members on select tours. In addition, get free airport transfers for New England or NY tours or a free Tuscan Cooking class for our
Montecatini tour. Sorry...ladies only.
Click for tours and travel specials
 Better World Club stuff now available at our online store:
cafepress.com
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Top Story |
Better World Club Rewards Prudent Car Ownership while Surcharging Irresponsibility: Offers FREE Membership to Hybrid Car Owners while Surcharging Gas Guzzlers
Better World Club announced this week a Buy-One-Get-One-Year FREE Membership Special for the owners of hybrid cars. The same discount will be available for other alternative fuel vehicles, such as electric or hydrogen fuel cars. The
announcement is timed as many of the original hybrid car owners are seeing the end of roadside assistance coverage provided with the purchase of their cars. Unfortunately, the discount is not available to current members at this time.
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New American Dream's Prius Contest
After three months, nearly 35,000 slogan submissions, thousands of letters to car manufacturers, and a growing stream of positive news from consumers and the world's automakers, voting has ended! Congratulations to the top 3
winners of the Community Choice Awards! The individuals who submitted these 3 slogans will each receive a one year Better World Club membership:
1. Green cars today. Blue skies tomorrow.
2. Drives great, less filling.
3. Build Cars as if Your Planet Depended On It.
View the Winners and Top 100 Finalists
Many of you have started receiving our new "Improve Your Carma" bumper sticker. But, it won't be our bumper sticker forever. (You expect us to be on the cutting edge of what's happening now. It's a burden.)
So, here's the best of the bumper stickers that you have suggested. Vote for a winner! (All decisions subject to the veto of those few staff members with good taste.).
Car Talk Owes Better World Club Big Time As BWC Helps Underwrite Show (Need A Favor from Tom or Ray? Let Us Know As They Can't Bite The Hand That Feeds
Them)
Better World Club is helping to underwrite NPR's Car Talk, heard on weekends throughout the U.S. If you have friends interested in joining the Club, please refer them to us. If you have friends interested in joining the Club who
will only do so if they receive a copy of Click & Clack's "Ten Ways You May Be Ruining Your Car Without Even Knowing It!", refer them to
www.cartalk.com.
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In the News |
As If Better World Surcharge Wasn't Enough, Hummer Owners Also Lose Tax Break (thanks to
www.DontBeFueled.org for the heads up)
Last Fall, Congress finally took action to phase out the tax loophole allowing small business buyers of giant SUVs, such as the Hummer, to deduct upwards of $100,000 of the purchase on their tax return.
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As if Better World Hybrid Discount Weren't Enough, CA Hybrids Get Carpool Lane Privileges
California and the Federal Government just keep struggling over the automobile and environmental policy. The Federal Government has already let it be known it doesn't like California's efforts to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of
automobiles. Now it has the chance to overrule California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who signed legislation allowing solo drivers of selected hybrid vehicles onto the state's 1,100 miles of carpool-designated highway lanes. The new
law provides 75,000 permits for owners of gas-electric automobiles to drive with only one occupant in the commuter lanes. But, Congress must pass a law authorizing California's law and President Bush must sign it. Assuming this happens --
which is iffy -- hybrid car owners will still have to obtain a "Clean Air Vehicle Decal" from the DMV in order to avoid getting ticketed.
To see a list of qualifying vehicles that average a minimum of 45 miles per gallon,
click here.
Hertz Should Be Trying Harder! Get Your Fleet to 40 MPG
Tell Craig C. Koch, President of Hertz, to consider fuel economy when purchasing vehicles for its U.S. fleet.
Take the Pledge
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ecopledge.com and take action on a variety of important issues. |
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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT! Smart Usage Reduces Membership Fees and Prevents Wasted Calls
Each member receives four service calls annually. There are situations where you may be encouraged to "waste" a call. Find out how you can protect your service calls and help keep membership fees down.
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