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Hybrid Chevy Tahoe wins "Green Car of the Year" award

Posted at 1:02 PM on 15 Nov 2007

The Green Car Journal has awarded the "Green Car of the Year" prize to ... drumroll please ... the hybrid Chevy Tahoe. An eight-passenger SUV not yet on sale? Whaaa? "People don't think green when SUVs are concerned and for generally good reason, since SUVS often get poor fuel economy," says Green Car publisher Ron Cogan. "Chevrolet's Tahoe Hybrid changes this dynamic with a fuel efficiency improvement of up to 30 percent." Be that as it may, the Tahoe Hybrid's 21 miles per gallon in city driving is a far cry from the fuel economy achieved by smaller, more park-able hybrids.

source: Reuters
see also, in Grist: 15 Green Cars

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Another dumb dinosaur.

Now with an engine (actually two + toxic waste batteries) that reduces a terrible gas mileage to just bad. Well, it is good for sales. It will encourage people who do not want to stop driving this sort of vehicle to continue driving it while feeling good and telling all their friends how oh-so-good they are for the environment. And it is good for the economy. "Greenwashing" at work.

This is a marketing solution to a sales problem, not a technical solution to a pollution problem. Unfortunately it works because people rather twist their minds than change their habits.

Still nauseous.

Karsten
http://www.polluteless.com

by PolluteLessDotCom at 2:02 PM on 15 Nov 2007

Green Diet of the Year

Since food is more important in terms of gobal warming than transportation (see www.ivu.org/members/globalwarming.html), a green car is one thing, but a green diet is even better (why not do both?!).
And now, for the Green Diet of the Year:
Organic Vegan!
(applause, applause, apple sauce)

Eco-Eating: Eating as if the Earth Matters at www.brook.com/veg

by CyberBrook at 2:49 PM on 15 Nov 2007

Self-adulation?

Does Chevy own the Green Car Journal? (Remind me never to waste my money on the publication.)

Reminds me of an award that Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines keeps winning, and promoting, for best green cruise line. It is awarded by...drumroll...Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. You know, the one with the history of:

"Royal Caribbean To Pay Record $18 Million Criminal Fine For Dumping Oil And Hazardous Chemicals, Making False Statements; Cruise Line Faces 21 Felony Counts in 6 Different U.S. Courts"

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/e987e762f557727d ...

[see EPA.gov]

NoPunProductions.com ~ AmericaTheGreen.org

by Greta at 3:31 PM on 15 Nov 2007

what a bunch of crap

There's nothing wrong with the Tahoe that a good plant closure and mass layoffs won't fix.

by prospect77 at 7:50 AM on 16 Nov 2007

chew on this bone

Ok listen,
I drive a honda. But if I had a decent sized fambly or wanted the most fuel efficient small school bus...GM engineers have done a great job.

Consider that you want to move eight people. You could buy this 21mpg Tahoe or TWO 40 mpg prius's. You would burn about the same amount of fuel. The difference is that you would also get two cars, eight sets of tires..etc. double all the polution it takes to make two vehicles, versus one.

I'd expect the readers of Grist to have a hard time understanding the importance of this, since, if you actually need a vehicle to haul that many people you don't have time to read it!

by paulg at 5:54 AM on 20 Nov 2007

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