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BWC Member Specials
Gas-Saving Tips
Top Story
Hot Topics
This Is the AutoErotic Edition of Kicking Asphalt!
Washington Watch
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BWC Member Specials |
Sustainable Energy In Motion Bicycle Tour
Special Offer: Two Tours For The Price Of One Until May 31st!
Sure, you could spend your summer working, laying on the beach, or lobbying to keep Paris Hilton out of jail. However, wouldn't you rather do something a little different? This summer, you can take an extraordinary
journey. Tune up your bike, pack your bags, and join fellow riders from all over the world for an incredible excursion across Oregon, utilizing the most sustainable method of transportation available.
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More BWC Member Discounts:
- Eco-Travel Discounts
- Eco-Lodging Discounts
- Various Member Discounts |
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The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Buicks
Summer travel season is nigh upon us, and whether you're a nun-turned-singing governess hiding from Nazis, or a family of five driving to the Grand Canyon, your road trip will include at least one hill.
Here are some tips to help you conserve gas on hills:
- Build up speed before you start climbing, and you will reduce your need to downshift to a less efficient gear.
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The Next Great Innovation in Auto Insurance: Pay by the Mile aka Pay As You Drive (PAYD)
It Gets Confusing As Most Of Our Staff Also Use "aka"
by Erik Sahagian, VP, Better World Insurance
Better World Club recently supported a Massachusetts proposal to jump-start Pay by the Mile Auto Insurance for the second time. Here is an excerpt from the statement of support:
 Some have chosen to falsely frame the recent "Pay as you Drive" proposal as an assault on
freedom. In fact, the opposite is true. PAYD is quite simply an attempt to more fairly price that necessary evil we know as auto insurance. By charging a per mile rate, insurance would join an infinite list of products from ice cream
cones to xylophones which are paid for and consumed on a per unit basis. Would these critics of PAYD have us all pay the same, no matter how much potato salad or heating oil we consume? Is that how a market functions?
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TravelCool Website of the Month |
American Public Transportation Association
We at Better World Club like public transportation. This site is cool because it includes a page of public transportation links for all 50 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. Curious about public
transportation options in a particular state? This site will point you in the right direction:
American Public Transportation Association
If You Liked That Site...
Be sure to take a peek at our
'Bodacious Page of Travel Links and Resources'. Our travel links page sports a crazy HUGE number of links, so if you're planning some travel this is a great resource. |
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Carbon Offsets Gain Notoriety As Limbaugh Attacks
Let's Hope The Line About Any Publicity Being Good Publicity Is Accurate
Carbon Offsets Are Like Medicine for the Earth
Isn't This a Subject Limbaugh Knows Something About?
Better World Club was the first travel business and one of the first companies of any kind to offer donations, known as "carbon offsets", which are devoted to projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Better World Club
has offset over 10 million pounds of greenhouse gas from planes and cars and is about to announce its 2006 offsets.
For years, few Americans knew what a carbon offset was. This is now changing, thanks largely to Al Gore and his use of carbon offsets and even more to the Rush Limbaughs and his ilk who view them as completely illegitimate. "Fraud" is a
word frequently used by these conservatives.
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This Is the AutoErotic Edition of Kicking Asphalt |
BWC is now publishing KA twice a month. The mid-month issue focuses more on insurance and cars. Check out the exclusive, car-related content of this edition:
- BWC Alternative Fuel Report
- BWC High-Mileage Car Review
- Recall Information
- Lemon Information |
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Washington Watch |
Bush Orders Regulatory Action on Climate, Fuel Efficiency
Too Little, Too Late?
Well, Too Little For Sure
In the wake of a Supreme Court rebuke, President Bush signed an executive order Monday requiring the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal regulators to develop regulations to limit
greenhouse-gas emissions by motor vehicles.
In what was a first for an environmental issue, Bush made the announcement from the White House Rose Garden. "I'm directing the EPA and the departments of Transportation, Energy and Agriculture to take the first steps toward regulations
that would cut gasoline consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions for motor vehicles," the president said. The agencies will use his State of the Union proposal to cut gasoline consumption by 20% in 10 years in drafting the new
regulations, which must be completed by the end of 2008.
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Warming Cited For $900 Billion Insurance Risk
MSNBC - The U.S. government, insurer of last resort, faces a potential payout of at least $919 billion under a worst-case scenario of flood and crop losses due to global warming, congressional investigators
say.
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More Washington Watch in Kicking Asphalt and Driving Change: |
- Gov. Schwarzenegger To EPA: "Ah'll Be Back" If CA Greenhouse Gas Regs Not Approved
- EPA Chief: Bush Climate Policy Is Working... Gee, Like the Katrina Rebuilding Effort Is Working, Like Alec Baldwin's Anger Management Therapy Is Working, Like Al Gore's Diet Is Working...
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