Posts Tagged ‘SUVs’

GM Gets Shafted For Relying on SUVs and Trucks

Detroit’s condition is not the kind of thing you want to rub your hands in bloggy schadenfreude over. Blue-collar layoffs have started turning into white-collar layoffs. And when they sell cars that do horrible things to the planet they’re just trying to give the American public what it wants.

Old GM Plant

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August 1st, 2008 Tags: , , ,
by Benjamin Nugent in air pollution, climate change, culture | 16 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

SUV-Trashing Blogger Seeks Suggestions, Gets Huge

So you no longer want to be a scourge of everything we hold dear / friend to Saudi Arabia.  You want to throw away your SUV. But how is it done? A San Franciscan named Ryan Mickle raised the question for real on a web site this month, and little by little became a web phenom.Smashed SUV

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July 26th, 2008 Tags: , ,
by Benjamin Nugent in Uncategorized, air pollution, climate change, waste | 7 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >