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Enterprise Rent-a-Car opens six 'green' branches in Atlanta

Posted at 8:26 AM on 10 Apr 2008

The largest car rental company in the United States, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, announced it's opening six "green" branches in Atlanta, Ga., where 60 percent of the available rental vehicles will be hybrids or other fuel-efficient cars. The agency said the increase in efficient vehicles is due to consumer demand. Enterprise currently has a fleet of about 4,000 hybrids out of a total 1.1 million vehicles nationwide. Rival rental agencies have also touted their own hybrid fleets. Avis said that it currently has about 2,500 hybrids, while Hertz said it aims to offer some 3,500 hybrid vehicles sometime this summer.

source: Associated Press

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Texeme Greener Than Grist

When it comes to energy use, nothing drives up the kilowatt hours like excessive HTML.

Note my home page for the Texeme.Construct:

http://www.texeme.com

Simple. Precise. No graphics.

My page has a carbon footprint that is 2 orders of magnitude lower than grist.org

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by jabailo at 9:07 AM on 10 Apr 2008

Were talkin' rental cars, baka...

My page has a carbon footprint that is 2 orders of magnitude lower than grist.org

That's 'cause not nearly as many people visit you website, so it doesn't haveta be nearly as big.

What does that haveta do with rental cars anyway?

by Tasermons Partner at 9:37 AM on 10 Apr 2008

Green Wash...Workin' At the Green Wash

What does that haveta do with rental cars anyway?

Well, since it's a game of Greener than Thou I thought we should hit closer to home.

Large bitmaps, overzealous java script coding lead to longer downloads, more server utilization, higher storage -- and more Co2 !!

As far as cars, I wonder if they use low energy techniques to wash the cars when they come back -- cold water? Less wax?

Remember the classic from Rose Royce?

You might not ever get carbon free
But let me tell ya it's better than burning gasoline.

There ain't no tellin' who ya might meet.
Leonardo di Caprio or may be even a former Veep.

(Workin' at the) Green wash.
Workin' at the Green wash yeah !

Come on and sing it with me Green wash.
Get with the feelin' y'all car wash yeah.

by jabailo at 10:57 AM on 10 Apr 2008
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