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Audreyvgs · 05-21-2007, 08:59 AM

Dear Honda
I love my Element. I will buy another one, as soon as you get smart enough to make it in a hybrid model! What in the world could you be thinking, you marketed the damn thing to teenagers, and soccer moms bought it by the truckload. Who do you think is ready to buy a green car? We are! You are missing the marketing opportunity of a lifetime! Get with the program! Come into the 2000's!

Thank You,
Audrey

Anybody else doing anything green? I recycle. I garden.

daverbee · 05-21-2007, 02:22 PM

Me, too.
Don't have a hybrid but I get between 30 and 37 mpg with my Kia.

l'azizza · 05-21-2007, 05:13 PM

I bike to work when weather allows. My washing machine is a front loader. I recycle aluminum, and collect it at work. I shut off the water when brushing my teeth or shaving. I've finally realized that grass is not native to these plains grassland, so no longer water the front yard. I did mow it once so far, with a reel mower. If I get busy with the backyard it will be xeriscaped.

From an Audubon book,
"Any individual yard or garden may seem relatively insignificant as a wildlife habitat, but according to the EPA, residential lawns (not including parks, businesses, or industrial areas) cover some 20 million acres in the United States. Imagine if all of those yards could be transformed into small habitat patches. The additional wildlife habitat would be comparable to increasing the area of the entire National Wildlife Refuge system by twenty percent. While this mosaic of backyards could not provide all the same values to wildlife as an equivalent unbroken wilderness, the wildlife benefits would still be enormous. Our backyard wildscapes could contribute meaningfully to our broader conservation goals in CO by providing needed rest and refueling stops for migratory birds on their way to larger, wilder landscapes."

zenbabe · 05-21-2007, 05:45 PM

my car gets about 35 mpg so that is pretty good. We don't seperate the cans and bottles out of the trash because all the bums do it for us and I figure they could probably use the money. I do have canvas bags that I take to the grocery store instead of using the plastic ones and I don't flick my ciggy butts out the car window anymore.

Frieda · 05-21-2007, 06:09 PM

hybrid cars aren't green until the rich west stops paying african countries to store the dead batteries and battery acids.

same with alcohol fuels, they burn whole forests of sugar reeds in brazil for our "clean" fuels, just because that way it is easier to chop down the wood. that alone brings more smoke into the atmosphere than traffic.

shame that good ideas go directly down the drain this way

i don't recycle, no option for that where i live.. i drive a diesel car paid by my company.. so i guess i'm not that green!

trisherina · 05-22-2007, 01:37 AM

I garden as many native species as possible, consume fossil fuels, and recycle like a mother******. Occasionally, when I get me in a mood, I compost. Of these, I enjoy the gardening the most, though fossil fuels are lots of fun too, especially at -30C.

Cute children, but cute enough to overpower the Honda Element's appearance? Hmm.

05-21-2007, 08:59 AM	#1
Audreyvgs Blue's Clues Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: on Yur Last Nerve, huh? Posts: 5,412	Dear Honda Dear Honda I love my Element. I will buy another one, as soon as you get smart enough to make it in a hybrid model! What in the world could you be thinking, you marketed the damn thing to teenagers, and soccer moms bought it by the truckload. Who do you think is ready to buy a green car? We are! You are missing the marketing opportunity of a lifetime! Get with the program! Come into the 2000's! Thank You, Audrey Anybody else doing anything green? I recycle. I garden. __________________ I just LOVE what you haven't done with the place!

05-21-2007, 02:22 PM	#2
daverbee Key Lime Pie rocks!!! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oh, yeah! Posts: 7,695	Me, too. Don't have a hybrid but I get between 30 and 37 mpg with my Kia. __________________ Time is essential because without it everything would happen all at once.

05-21-2007, 05:45 PM	#4
zenbabe Lollypop! Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: we are all made of stars Posts: 11,690	my car gets about 35 mpg so that is pretty good. We don't seperate the cans and bottles out of the trash because all the bums do it for us and I figure they could probably use the money. I do have canvas bags that I take to the grocery store instead of using the plastic ones and I don't flick my ciggy butts out the car window anymore. __________________ Be yourself, because the people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind. -Dr. Seuss

05-21-2007, 06:09 PM	#5
Frieda in limbo Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 19,503	hybrid cars aren't green until the rich west stops paying african countries to store the dead batteries and battery acids. same with alcohol fuels, they burn whole forests of sugar reeds in brazil for our "clean" fuels, just because that way it is easier to chop down the wood. that alone brings more smoke into the atmosphere than traffic. shame that good ideas go directly down the drain this way i don't recycle, no option for that where i live.. i drive a diesel car paid by my company.. so i guess i'm not that green! __________________ zoek waar je wil, maar het zit in jezelf oh yeah

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05-21-2007, 05:13 PM	#3
l'azizza 98.4% monkey Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: bummed out city Posts: 634	I bike to work when weather allows. My washing machine is a front loader. I recycle aluminum, and collect it at work. I shut off the water when brushing my teeth or shaving. I've finally realized that grass is not native to these plains grassland, so no longer water the front yard. I did mow it once so far, with a reel mower. If I get busy with the backyard it will be xeriscaped. From an Audubon book, "Any individual yard or garden may seem relatively insignificant as a wildlife habitat, but according to the EPA, residential lawns (not including parks, businesses, or industrial areas) cover some 20 million acres in the United States. Imagine if all of those yards could be transformed into small habitat patches. The additional wildlife habitat would be comparable to increasing the area of the entire National Wildlife Refuge system by twenty percent. While this mosaic of backyards could not provide all the same values to wildlife as an equivalent unbroken wilderness, the wildlife benefits would still be enormous. Our backyard wildscapes could contribute meaningfully to our broader conservation goals in CO by providing needed rest and refueling stops for migratory birds on their way to larger, wilder landscapes."

05-22-2007, 01:37 AM	#6
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	I garden as many native species as possible, consume fossil fuels, and recycle like a mother******. Occasionally, when I get me in a mood, I compost. Of these, I enjoy the gardening the most, though fossil fuels are lots of fun too, especially at -30C. Cute children, but cute enough to overpower the Honda Element's appearance? Hmm.