Hummer

Let Them Eat Hummers

Scott Thill | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business


Scott Thill

For years, we have been exporting pollution and excess to the rest of the world, in the form of gas hogs that don't work, suck up cash and destroy the environment.

GM Asking Students to Help Greenwash

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green


Glenn Hurowitz

My intern, Meg Imholt, is also the president of EcoSense, American University's environmental group... the target of GM's latest cynical marketing attempt.

Precipitous fifteen-year drop in US car sales; Need one? You probably can't get one

Steve Parker | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...

US Military's Biggest Gas Guzzlers

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green


U.S. Military: Single-Largest Consumer of Oil in the World We constantly hear about how this or that car gets X miles per gallon, but we rarely hear a...

Huge US Hummer Dealership Closing

Posted 09.08.2008 | Business


General Motors's quest to sell its Hummer division may get a bit tougher after Tuesday. That is when Dan Towbin-whose dealerships grabbed national at...

BIG TRUCKS GAINING SALES TRACTION ... AGAIN!

Steve Parker | Posted 09.05.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

The auto industry's US sales numbers for August are in, and Americans are again buying full-size pickups and SUVs. They are actually a "bright spot" i...

$50 Billion for the Detroit Three: Yea or Nay?

Steve Parker | Posted 08.28.2008 | Business


Steve Parker

Should Chrysler, or two of the car-makers or even all three go bust, then, this time, the American people will pay the price, both literally and figuratively.

GM Can't Unload Hummer Even On Chinese Military

Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 08.18.2008 | Business


Despite how badly GM wants to dump the Hummer, a looming global recession (and of course high oil prices) may be putting the kibosh on that plan. Gen...

The Hybrid vs. the Hummer Redux

Paul Peete | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green


Paul Peete

How ironic that the poster boy for gas guzzling sizeable SUVs morphed into a psuedo-democratic, Green governor just in time to see gas near 5 dollars a gallon and its effects rippling through the economy.

Gary, Indiana Mayor and his Tax-Funded Hummer (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green


Is FOX News taking a green outlook? In a piece aired on June 20th on the normally conservative station, Neil Cavuto grills Mayor Rudy Clay of Gary, In...

Mauldin Update

Jeff Danziger | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


Jeff Danziger

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Detroit Small Cars

Jeff Danziger | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media


Jeff Danziger

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

It was quite a week. Barack Obama became the Democratic nominee -- rousingly endorsed by Hillary Clinton. Oil hit an all-time high; Bush's approval rating hit an all-time personal low. McCain hammered Obama for being willing to meet with our enemies on the same day a new poll showed 67 percent of the public agrees with Obama. A Senate report re-re-re-confirmed that the Bush administration led us into war under false pretenses. Tom DeLay proved he hasn't lost a step -- or gained an IQ point -- calling Obama "a Marxist." Bill Clinton erupted. Again. My good buddy Al Franken moved another step closer to the U.S. Senate. And the Hummer hit a dead-end. GM killed the electric car; soaring gas prices killed the Hummer. Karma all around.

Ding Dong the Hummer's Dead!

Jessica Jensen | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green


Jessica Jensen

Dear Rick: we'd like to suggest you go a step further and acknowledge that the Hummer was an anachronistic tragedy whose time has come to disappear from the face of the Earth.

Cowboys, Prairie Fairies, and Mother Earth: The Political Psychology of Gendering Nature Female

Stephen Ducat | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green


Stephen Ducat

In the view of conservatives, just as women are there to serve and must know their place, so must the Earth (along with its animals and indigenous inhabitants) be used as a resource that requires no reciprocity.

Hummer? No, Bummer!

Patt Morrison | Posted 01.02.2008 | Living


Patt Morrison

The holidays do tend to warm up the fellow-feeling quotient, and put you off your cynic's game. I should have known better than to expect better.

Smart Car Is Coming To America

NPR | Frank Langfitt | Posted 12.07.2007 | Business


The Smart car is coming to America. Next month, dealers in the U.S. will begin selling the tiny vehicle best known for slipping into tight parking sp...

Artist As Citizen

Richard Reiss | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living


Richard Reiss

By reaching talented, creative people while they're still in school, and giving them the opportunity to investigate subjects of importance to their lives, we can both change their awareness and add to the public dialogue essential to a functioning democracy.