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Check out our new Commute Savings Calculator, powered by AlterNetRides
Calculate your estimated savings (and pollution) when you rideshare with another person. This unique feature can be found on our
web site. The Commute Savings Calculator is powered by
AlterNetRides, a free service to help you rideshare or find carpoolers in your area.
Interesting facts and information about
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Give the planet a vacation the next time you take one! Rent the Bio-Beetle. Club Members get a 5% Discount.
Bio-Beetle is the first company in the world to offer rental cars fueled exclusively with biodiesel. Rentals are currently available on Maui and Oahu. Their vehicles are powered solely by
B100 biodiesel, a diesel fuel made from vegetable oils, and in Hawaii all biodiesel is made from used cooking oil. They do not blend our fuel with any petroleum.
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Top Story |
Better World Club Testifies for Greenhouse Regs of Automobiles
Auto Industry Says That Marketplace is Effective and Should Decide
Better World Agrees Marketplace is Effective: When Pollution is Free, Marketplace Gives Us More Pollution
Joining the Union of Concerned Scientists, the National Lung Association, the Bonneville Foundation, and numerous climate experts, Better World Club testified in support of legislation requiring the state of Oregon to follow
California's lead and regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of automobiles at a state Senate hearing in March.
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General Motors Says "Size Matters!"
''Real Americans Want Real Cars - Not Hybrids!"
As Reuters put it, "Never mind the fuel-sipping, gas-electric hybrid vehicles. Detroit wants to send power to the people. Right now the drive for more and more power in cars is way larger than the drive for more and more hybrids," said GM
Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, the top carmaker's long-time design guru.
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Surprising (and Welcome) Coalition Says to Invest in Energy Independence Ahead of Coming Crisis
As reported by ENS (the Environmental News Service) on March 30, 2005 --31 national security leaders --from former Democratic Senator Gary Hart and Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta on the left to Reagan National Security appointees
Robert McFarlane and Frank Gaffney on the right, are advising President George W. Bush to reduce U.S. consumption of foreign oil through "improved efficiency and the rapid substitution of advanced biomass, alcohol and other available
alternative fuels."
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