Cash for clunkers? NO! REFRIGERATORS!

[Allen Farlow]

If you really want to cut down on the amount of trash created each week, consider the packaging that your products are being sold in. Cardboard, plastic, cellophane, consumer products are packaged with so much garbage it's ridiculous.

And we pay for that garbage through the increased costs of those products.

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by Allen Farlow

If you really want to cut down on the amount of trash created each week, consider the packaging that your products are being sold in. Cardboard, plastic, cellophane, consumer products are packaged with so much garbage it's ridiculous.

And we pay for that garbage through the increased costs of those products.

those are the exact materials that we recycle

[Hades]

Gov’t gives out $300M for advanced vehicles, ‘Clean Cities’

The U.S. Department of Energy just announced that it will provide $300 million in stimulus funds to 25 projects aimed at putting 9,000 more alternative-fuel vehicles on America’s roads, and building the infrastructure needed to power them, including 542 fueling and charging stations across the country. All told, these projects — now under the banner of the DOE’s long-standing “Clean Cities” program — could cut petroleum use by up to 38 million gallons a year — that’s nearly 1 million barrels of oil.

The bulk of the funding will be used to accelerate adoption of hybrids, electric vehicles and plug-in electric hybrids, as well as natural gas and biofuel-powered vehicles. The refueling stations included in the plan will be designed to power cars running on natural gas, propane, biodiesel, ethanol and, of course, electricity. In order to receive the money, each of the projects named had to raise twice the matching funds, allowing for more capital-intensive projects.

Instead of awarding money to companies tackling these areas, the DOE is funding local government organizations charged with greening transportation in their jurisdictions. It is also encouraging recipients to introduce fleets of advanced vehicles with industry partners in order to spur eventual commercial adoption. For example, the San Bernadino Associated Governments‘ were awarded $9.95 million to add 262 natural gas-powered heavy-duty trucks with the help of transportation vendor J.B. Hunt. The Maryland Energy Administration received $5.9 million to fund the purchase of 150 hybrid-electric trucks for use by Nestle and UPS among others. And the City of Chicago’s Department of Environment will add 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles to the city with nearly $15 million from the DOE. You can see a full list of the funded projects here (the majority of them rely on natural gas).

Source: http://green.venturebeat.com/2009/08...-clean-cities/

I think it is a very good initiative, the US is starting to take care of the environment and looking past the current generation, people should be glad their children or grandchildren will be living in a clean world.

[Natural Elements]

"Prices for cars during the Clunkers program went up for everyone, but buyers using the program on average got a $3000 benefit that others did not."

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/26/auto...ion=2009082618

Do you still think that clunkers are good things?