Mark and the guys visit Lovecraft Bio-fuels in Los Angeles, meet some online activists who came to say congratulations, and talk to Dr. Shelley Luce, chief scientist and spokesperson for the California Clean Energy Initiative.
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Tell auto makers to make cleaner air vehicles...
Just a thought... to help the auto industry get the cleaner air vehicle message...
Encourage everyone to go carless, to go auto-alternative, then if they must buy a vehicle, to buy an efficient hybrid... and if they buy a conventional vehicles instead, to negotiate a retail price reduction equal to the average fuel inefficienty of the vehicle model they are choosing... this will get Detroit's attention...
Negotiate the dealer's markup / profit margin (see Consumer Reports)
Negotiate the manufacturer's markup / profit margin (see autobuyology.org)
Negotiate a futher reduction in cost for the amount by which the vehicle isn't as efficient as it would have been if the auto industry/manufacturer had adoped and used existing proven fuel efficiency technologies, that have been determined to be able to increase fuel efficencies of most conventional vehicles by 25% or more... (see autobuyology.org)
Most automobiles are at least 25% less efficient then five to ten year old technologies should have given us if the auto industry had lived up to their claims for customer service... perhaps the good thing is that higher gas prices will result in less consumption... Unfortunately, less than cost-optimally efficient vehicles contribute disproportionally to environmental and public health and greenhouse gas problems...
Urge the auto industry to make cleaner air, more fuel efficient and safer vehicles: http://www.autobuyology.org/tellcarmakerstocleantheair.pdf
With the real cost of subsidized gasoline now well above $10 a gallon (http://www.icta.org/press/release.cfm?news_id=12), and with 'average' automobile ownership and operation costs over a lifetime now zoom-zooming past $500,000 (half a million dollars -- you do the math), a few auto related conservation reminders may be helpful: Go carfree (see savings above); go carless; buy smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles and rent up or larger as needed; drive less; ride-share; trip-link or group errands; negotiate a fuel inefficiency retail price reduction for less than cost-optimally fuel-efficient vehicles; urge the auto industry to stop fighting conservative and reasonable fuel efficiency and green-house gas emission standards, and to adopt long-proven, cost-effective fuel efficiency tenchologies for new vehicles; get-SMART and support comprehensive public transportation and auto-alternative programs, for others, if not for oneself; And etc., add your energy conservation choices to this list. Keep it handy, and share it.
For those who cannot avoid buying an automobile, at least you don't have to pay to much... a list of car deal resources to help level the car deal playing field to favor the consumers...
http://www.autobuyology.org/thankyouforteaching.pdf
Rand
Carlessnesshood 101
If there is one thing worse then having to buy an automobile, it's paying to much for one... "1st law of thermo-economical-dynamics"
http://www.autobuyology.org