Suburbia's Dirty Little Secret
We moms find ourselves racing out of meetings, tearing off our tennis outfits, throwing down the great American novel we were writing. Mom is gone. In her place: The Chauffeur.
We moms find ourselves racing out of meetings, tearing off our tennis outfits, throwing down the great American novel we were writing. Mom is gone. In her place: The Chauffeur.
Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business
Now that gas is just a hair under $4 a gallon, US carmakers will go right back to making millions of SUVs, right? Not so says Ford (F), they've learne...
AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green
SHANGHAI, China — China is raising its sales tax on big cars to as high as 40 percent, and drastically cutting taxes on small cars, in its lates...
Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business
This is the year of cutting SUV production. If you don't believe it, ask Ford, where they're idling manufacturing plants because they can't sell the...
New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green
Your neighbors may turn up their noses, but keeping your gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle, or buying one coming off a lease, may be a smart move. T...
The Washington Post | Ariana Eunjung Cha | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green
SONGJIANG, China -- Nodding his head to the disco music blaring out of his car's nine speakers, Zhang Linsen swings the shiny, black Hummer H2 out of ...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business
DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history Thursday, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter. Th...
New York Times | Bill Vlasic | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
The Ford Motor Company, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, i...
Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green
One thing I have never understood about Americans is their love of cars, and I am from Texas. To me, a car is like a prison sentence.
Emily Erikson | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
The net result of a progressive tax structure in the US has been increased social mobility, which is a more important and durable part of American culture than, for example, owning driving long distances in SUVs.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Sagging demand for large sport utility vehicles has forced Ford Motor Co. to close a Michigan factory for nine weeks starting June 23....
Diane Francis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green
America needs an energy intervention right now which will help the environment, slash trade deficits, reduce dependency foreign regimes and finance new technologies. Here are my ideas.
Boston Globe | Jenn Abelson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Business
After paying $75 to fill his black Dodge Ram pickup truck for the third time in a week, Douglas Chrystall couldn't take it anymore. Feeling pinched a...
CNN/Money | Allan Chernoff | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business
Buyer's remorse fills the New York International Auto Show at Manhattan's Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center this week. Owners of gas-hungry Sport Util...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Automakers got hit where it hurts in February, with U.S. sales of their most profitable vehicles _ trucks, sport utilities and large s...
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.20.2008 | Business
Financial accounting is probably the most powerful weapon we have to tackle short-termism, the cause of our environmental problems.
Clint Wilder | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business
Yes, it's good to see the mainstreaming of hybrid technology, but are hybrid Escalades, Tahoes, and Yukons really just the lipstick on a pig's philosophy at work - dressing up a bad thing to look a little better, ecologically speaking?
AP | Samantha Young | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business
California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for denying its first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SU...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill t...
Bob Franken | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
This country has spent a long time on a long downward slide. The only way to recover is through hard work, sacrifice, a reordering of priorities and a rejection of the politicians who suggest there's any other way.
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Lauren Cahn | Posted 08.26.2008 | Living