http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/ Switched Comments for Not-So-Earth-Friendly Tech (5) http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 7:08AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 7:24AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 7:31AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 7:38AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 7:36AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 7:50AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 8:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 8:04AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 8:15AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 8:16AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 8:18AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/
You gotta check out this article and you'll be amazed:

http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/print_item.asp?NewsID=188

One last fun fact for you: it takes five years to offset the premium price of a Prius. Meaning, you have to wait 60 months to save any money over a non-hybrid car because of lower gas expenses.

We take what we hear and assume it to be true because it sounds right. Don't ever judge until you have thought past the original idea!


]]>Apr 19th 2007 8:20AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/We (society) are harming our kids first and foremost by teaching them to be such great consumers, and lousy producers.
Anyone who knows a teenager knows what I mean! An all powerful sense of entitlement and no clue how or why to give or produce anything at all!!
A good economy? But at what expense?
All because we grow more each day at not wanting to hear or say the word "no". Like a spoiled toddler.
There will be plenty of 'green' jobs created by this for todays youth. I just hope they 1) don't hate us for allowing and ignoring the downfall, and 2) have a clue how to work HARD like our forefathers to create a livable, prosperous world.
We can start slowly and painlessly to turn our economy in the right direction for the future, or keep arguing and allow it to crash on our childrens heads.
EVERYTHING has a tipping point. The earth and this greedy economy is no exception, like it or not.]]>Apr 19th 2007 8:31AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Buy a Subaru Outback instead with the standard engine and get 29MPG hiway mileage, and its a better car than the Audi too, for less money]]>Apr 19th 2007 8:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/]]>Apr 19th 2007 8:49AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/"After all, station wagons meant to be sensible. In fact, that's the only reason people subject themselves to driving them"

Don't feel bad. The above quote from Crandall shows that he doesn't get it either. Crandall probably drives station (cross over) wagon too.
Station wagons are sensible. Fuel efficiency is another story. What do you think a "cross over" vehicle or a "small SUV" is? Hello.....They are station wagons. Car makers figured out a way to make the suckers buy station wagons, they renamed the station wagon a cross over and a small SUV. They are station wagons plain and simple, no matter what you call them. I think it's funny that people who would not be caught in dead in a station wagon, are driving a cross over vehicles and small SUV's thinking that they have something special, something innovative. The latest and the greatest! :) Guess what folks..... Here's the inconvenient truth.....You're driving a station wagon. You don't have to admit it, or agree. However, you still own and drive a station wagon. The car makers only changed the mold and the name, to hook you.

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I think THAT is the point of the article, not whether wagons are practical or... sexy. Talk about missing the forest for the trees.]]>Apr 19th 2007 11:11AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/
If you want to single out useless impractical cars how about some of the gigantic Mercedes AMG models? The GL RL and ML sre perfect examples of this.

I bet the guy who wrote this nonsense probably merges onto the parkway and immediatley cuts across three lanes then parks himself in the left lane driving at,or just under, the speed limit while everyone behind him has to negotiate a way around him.]]>Apr 19th 2007 12:37PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/http://www.switched.com/2007/04/17/least-green-gadgets-5/Apr 19th 2007 12:39PM