Posts Tagged ‘mad max’

EcoDriving: The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturerers Gift to the Masses (Opinion)

You look west to see a barren landscape, tumbleweed breezing lazily through the charred remains of a forest.  The rust laden skeleton of what used to be a city echoes the promise of a future long gone.  You are fighting out your days amidst gunfire and tribal warfare in armor composed of animal fur and long deserted hockey pads.  Ironically water isn’t the most important liquid on the planet that spins where the Earth once spun.  You begin to wash the grease smears off your face in a shallow pool…

…oh wait, am I jumping the gun here?

While our gas crises hasn’t quite reached ‘Mad Max’ proportions yet, things are close enough that the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers will make this September “Green Check-Up Month.” After countless years of making oversized and inefficient autos, Ford and Chevy are now going to tell us how to save gas.

ZapRoot: Mad Max Switches to Wind Power

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It’s been a while since we republished a video from ZapRoot, but this is a good one: wind turbines in Road Warrior country, and the new feature on greenwashing (appropriately titled “These Guys are Full of **it!”). Enjoy!

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