{"id":973,"date":"2006-07-11T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T23:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=973"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:54:51","slug":"forbes-least-green-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/07\/11\/forbes-least-green-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes’ Least Green Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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North America’s most harmful vehicle: 2006 Ford E-Series van<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forbes<\/em> magazine has produced its first Least Green Machines list: a who’s who of environmentally-awful vehicles thatr roam our roads. From their website (or read the whole article<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Bill Ford, chairman and chief executive of Ford, frequently touts the company’s environmental friendliness. Ford was the first American car company to offer a gas\/electric hybrid vehicle that could run on electricity alone (the Escape Hybrid SUV), and 10.4 acres of plants grow on the roof of the automaker’s Dearborn Truck Plant.<\/p>\n

But our first-ever ranking of the least environmentally friendly new cars isn’t just dominated by pickups and SUVs; five of the seven cars on our list are made by Ford . And though domestic manufacturers are rolling out low-emission gas\/electric hybrids, such as General Motors’ Saturn Vue Green Line SUV, all seven of the market’s least green cars, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most current data, are American–strong evidence that U.S. automakers are not as serious about clean vehicles as their foreign counterparts are.<\/p>\n

In fact, the market’s least environmentally friendly car is Ford’s $26,000, full-size E-Series van, which gets the EPA’s lowest-possible scores for air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions: 0 out of 10 on both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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