What a wonderful Mother’s Day, even though it wasn’t all that green.
I launched this blog a week ago and it’s been an exercise of shifting my mindset.
I want us to connect and appreciate how funny life can be when you simply reflect the reality of your green day, good, bad, indifferent.
Yesterday was an eye opener with my brother, a well-educated walking Wikipedia of life, who was helping me understand what car to buy and why?
We were on our way to see Star Trek, and I spotted a Smart Car and said “Look, a shopping cart with an airbag”. He said, “Oh, that thing, the two-seater golf cart?
I was fascinated at what he told me next.
1) It runs on gas, no electric and only gets 27 miles per gallon on a good day.
2) Expensive - around $23,000.
3) If you order a Prius..get this…at 100,000 miles you have to replace the battery. $6,000 for new batteries and the $150 charge from the dealer to dump it. How long do batteries sit in the ground and how harmful is that to the planet? I don’t know yet.
4) Smart Cars are made in Germany and get hauled on a big carbon of the sea footprint to hit our shores for sale.
The competition, Honda, is advertising against the Smart Car shouting “buy our car instead, we give more gas mileage and less carbon, plus we passed the front end collision test. Smart Car did not”.
The smart fortwo is produced at "smartville" in Hambach, France. System partners on site deliver the prefabricated modules directly to the production line. Protecting the environment, energy efficiency and preservation of natural resources are hallmarks of smart brand.
Perception they say is “reality”. When I saw the Smart Car, I thought for sure small was green. Huge wake up call from my brother. Thanks, Gregg!
Wouldn’t green mean buying American if you can? Smart Car is BMW you know.
With GM and Ford spending all that stimulus money, maybe by summer the logic to buy all electric will be smart, monetarily sensible, and sexy.
