Sierra Club Green Car of the Year...

[lectrobyte]

The 20MPG Chevy Tahoe Hybrid. Is it April 1 again already?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/14/not_as_green_as_they_claim_to_be/

The eight-passenger vehicle is plastered with "hybrid" labels. An automobile magazine panel that included the executive director of The Sierra Club named it the "Green Car of the Year."

But the Tahoe gets only about 20 miles per gallon - not much better than the nonhybrid Honda Pilot SUV, which also seats eight. The celebrated Toyota Prius gets around 46 miles per gallon.

[gateley]

1. That's just nuts. nt

[roody]

2. Absolutely nuts.

[bhikkhu]

3. Why don't they give it to a moped. Or a bicycle. Or a good pair of shoes.

It would be a point well worth making, and something those guys should know a thing or two about.

[nosmokes]

4. I hope they got enough money to defray the cost my lost membership and

that of others I'm sure will be saying ciao to the club.Sorry but I don't keep a membership in organizations that endorse snd actively paricipate in greenwashing.

[Donnachaidh]

5. so switching it to hybrid gave it *2* miles per gallon more?

And the Sierra Club is pitching it? I wonder how much MONEY the Sierra Club got for their endorsement? So we can label them sellouts too?

[Dead_Parrot]

6. Arrgh! The Stupid!

It burns us...

[Bigmack]

7. Damn right it's just NUTS!

We get an average of OVER 50 miles to the gallon with our Prius (up here in Washington state). For some reason that NO ONE seems able to explain to us, when we drive it under identical conditions down in California where we spend several winter months, buying the gas from the same corporate sources, our mileage is about 46 mpg. Ms Bigmack

[kestrel91316]

8. It's our "special" California gas. I think it has more ethanol in it,

which has helped tremendously over the years with our formerly NASTY air pollution, but the cars get worse mileage. It costs more here, too. They get us coming and going.