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Suburbia's Dirty Little Secret

Lauren Cahn | Posted 08.26.2008 | Living

Read More: No Idling, Driving, Idling, Suburbia, Kids, Cars, Chauffeur, Parenting, Carpool, Dirty Little Secret, Happiness, Back to School, Suvs, Living News
Lauren Cahn

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.

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Ford Swears Off SUVs Even If Gas Prices Drop

Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Cars, Suvs, SUV Sales, Ford, Business News

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...

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China May Tax Big Cars As Much as 40 Percent

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: China, Suvs, SUV Sales, Cars, Taxes, Taxes on Cars, Car Taxes, Carbon Tax, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Reducing Emissions, China Pollution, Green News

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...

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Chrysler Would Outsource Everything But SUVs?

Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Outsourcing, Chrysler, Truck Sales, Nissan, Cars, Chrysler Nissan Deal, Suvs, SUV Sales, Trucks, Business News

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...

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NY Times Says: "Keep Your SUV"

New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Gas, Suv Prices, Suvs, Green, Green News, Cars, Ford Suvs, Car Industry, Ford Motor Co, SUV Sales, Ford, Green News

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...

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China's SUV Sales Rise 43% Over Last Year, Increasing Oil Demand

The Washington Post | Ariana Eunjung Cha | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Prices, Gas Prices, China Pollution, SUV Sales, Suvs, China, Cars, Green News

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 ...

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Ford Aims To Save Itself By Bringing Small European Cars To U.S.

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Ford, Cars, Auto Apocalypse, Auto Earnings, U.S. Car Market, Suvs, Ford Motor Co, Business News

DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history Thursday, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter. Th...

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Ford To Drastically Shift Production Away From SUVs

New York Times | Bill Vlasic | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Ford, Ford Cars, Ford Motor Company, Compact Cars, Suvs, Cars, Trucks, Green News

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...

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Is Our Long National Obsession With Cars Finally Ebbing?

Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Infrastructure, Gas Prices, War, Detroit, Community, Cars, Middle East, Iraq, Suvs, Green News
Sean-Paul Kelley

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.

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Driving Long Distances in Powerful Vehicles: Gas Tax vs. Industry Regulation

Emily Erikson | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Regulation, Gas Prices, Income Inequality, High Gas Prices, Suvs, Economy, Gas Tax, Middle Class, Politics News
Emily Erikson

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.

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Ford To Idle Michigan Factory After SUV Sales Plummet

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Ford Expedition, Suvs, Ford Trucks, Ford Suvs, Ford Michigan Truck Plant, Ford Idles Truck Plant, Lincoln Navigator, Ford, SUV Sales, Business News

DETROIT — Sagging demand for large sport utility vehicles has forced Ford Motor Co. to close a Michigan factory for nine weeks starting June 23....

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Intervention for America's Oil Addicts

Diane Francis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Supply-Demand, U.S. Trade Deficit, John McCain, $130 a Barrel, Germany, Vehicles, Alternative Energy, Gasoline Prices, Commodity Prices Soar, Fuel Effficiency Mandates, Gasoline Taxes, Europeans Foreign Oil Dependency., Pollution, Suvs, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Hybrids, Rogue Regimes, Oil, Pick-Up Trucks, Detroit, Gas Guzzlers, Green News
Diane Francis

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.

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Frustrated Car Owners Look To Ditch Their Gas-Guzzlers

Boston Globe | Jenn Abelson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Guzzlers, Gas Prices, Big Cars, Suvs, Business News

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...

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Economize Your Ride

CNN/Money | Allan Chernoff | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business

Read More: 2008 New York International Auto Show, Hybrids, Fule-Efficient SUVs, Toyota Prius, Javitz Convention Center, Sport Utility Vehicles, New York International Auto Show, Suvs, 2008 New York Auto Show, Javitz Center, Business News

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...

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Automakers Suffer February Double Whammy

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chevrolet, Gm, Toyota Motors, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Suvs, Ford Motors, SUV Sales, Business News

DETROIT — Automakers got hit where it hurts in February, with U.S. sales of their most profitable vehicles _ trucks, sport utilities and large s...

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Hugging an Accountant is Smarter than Hugging a Tree

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Short Term-Ism, Suvs, Environmental Future, Business News
Eben Esterhuizen

Financial accounting is probably the most powerful weapon we have to tackle short-termism, the cause of our environmental problems.

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Is the Hybrid Escalade an Oxymoron?

Clint Wilder | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Jeff Sterba, Hybrid Escalade, Chevy Volt, Clean Tech Revolution, Clean-Tech Investor Summit, Tesla Roadster, Toyota Prius, PNM Resources, Sports Utility Vehicles, Cadillac Escalade, Sustainability, Suvs, Business News
Clint Wilder

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?

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CA Sues EPA Over Greenhouse Gas Limits On Autos

AP | Samantha Young | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Epa, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouse Gases Limits, EPA Laqsuit, Suvs, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, California, Business News

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...

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Senate Passes Energy Bill To Raise Fuel Efficiency

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Energy Bill, Suvs, Oil Companies, Fuel Efficiency, US Senate, Politics News

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...

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The Hard Work Recovery Program

Bob Franken | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Outsourcing, Suv's, Immigration, Single Payer, Health Care, Duncan Hunter, Global Warming, Buy American, Political Talking Points, Politics News
Bob Franken

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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