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Planet Killers

SUVs Going Down in Value, Filling Up Used Car Lots due to Gas Prices

Praise be, y’all, sports utility vehicles are going down in value. Are people actually learning a lesson, here? SUVs are flooding the used car market as people realize that the behemoths are unnecessary, stupid environment killers – no, scratch, that, it’s because of gas prices. Well, whatever works, right?
Ridelust has it:
Most owners who go to [...]

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Unbelievable Waste: Mazda Destroys 4,703 New Cars Worth $100 Million

BoingBoing has an incredible video of nearly 5,000 brand new, straight from the factory Mazdas being flattened at a junkyard. The total value of these cars was $100 million. The Wall Street Journal has it:
It all started about two years ago, when a ship carrying 4,703 shiny new Mazdas nearly sank in the Pacific. The [...]

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Simon I-Could-Give-A-Shit Cowell Tops List of Celebrity Polluters

Appalling and horrendous: not just the singing on American Idol (who watches that these days?) but also host Simon Cowell’s dirty habits that have made him the top celebrity polluter. Simon’s average carbon emissions are 457g/km.
Known for flying around in a private jet, he has said that he prefers to travel that way because, as [...]

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D’oh! Earth to Online Retailers: Cut The Dumb Over-Packaging BS

Christ on a bicycle, this is some planet killing over-packaging madness. Gizmodo asked readers to submit photos of wasteful shipping from online retailers, and they delivered, providing dozens of images showing a handful of tiny items inside a giant box.
Of course, we could all help cut down on this sort of thing by shopping locally [...]

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