April 2, 2011

VOLT DRAWING NEW FACES TO CHEVROLET DEALERSHIPS

Chevy Volt Nissan: Uncovering Price Gouging on Green Cars

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Jim Motavalli is the author of Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future, among other books. He has been covering the environmental side of the auto industry for more than a decade, and writes regularly on those topics for the New York Times.
Price gouging on hot cars is a sleazy practice, and few dealers will admit they do it. But when short supply meets high demand, as it has with the new green cars, the market can and will push prices up. The Japanese tsunami and earthquake have aggravated the situation, and anyone who actually has cars to sell holds all the cards.

Innovative Closed Loop Program Sets New Standard in Sustainable Products

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TREND TOWARDS MORE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS GETS BOOST WITH NEW WORLDWISE-WALMART PARTNERSHIP
Worldwise, Inc., a leading environmentally responsible consumer products company, has teamed up with Walmart to launch an innovative new program to bring the latest generation of environmentally responsible products to consumers nationwide. Under this partnership, Walmart will provide Worldwise with recyclable waste materials that will be turned into a variety of pet products for sale at Walmart starting in October 2010.
Using a proprietary processing method, Worldwise will be recycling the following Walmart materials into its products:
Bottles are being recycled into dog beds
Hangers are being turned into cat litter pans, scoops, and scratchers
Bags are being converted into cat littler liners
Corrugated cardboard is being processed into cat scratchers

Riverkeeper’s Top Ten Reasons To Close Indian Point!!

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Hey Letterman!!!!!
Source: Riverkeeper
10. Nowhere to put Indian Point’s highly-radioactive spent fuel – IP’s storage pools are already overfilled with spent fuel rods from the last 40 years of operations. The spent fuel pools are also leaking radioactive water into the ground and the Hudson River.
9. Two different earthquake fault lines cross just north of Indian Point, leading Columbia University to conclude that Indian Point is in pretty much the worst location for a nuke plant in the NY metro area.
8. The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”) revised its estimates of earthquake risk in 2010, concluding that Indian Point is the most likely nuke plant in the nation to experience core damage due to an earthquake. NRC higher ups say this is “not a serious concern” and won’t do further studies until 2012.