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...every morning, the commute from Mather is 100% syringe free. Your savior on those rainy days is the shuttle, which stops right outside every 10 minutes (sometimes) and conveys you to your destination with speed and efficiency (sometimes). While the 10 a.m. shuttle is as packed as a clown car, the early-morning Rihanna on the bus' radio takes most of the beating out of the ride...
...counter to the concern that people who want a rebuilt car will not buy a new car is that dealerships are empty, as empty as graveyards at midnight. Offering to refurbish cars at a fair price will bring in a lot of customers. Most of those people will at least look at the new models. With $5,000 cash back and 0% financing for a decade, some of those customers will trade in what they have and leave with the latest model. Right now, those potential buyers won't set foot in a dealership. Once their warranties are up, they...
...Ford and its peers have a chance to revitalize most of the dealerships, their suppliers and their own companies while making a lot of money in the process. The cost of refurbishing a car can be financed, just like a used car can be. A person who pays $4,000 to upgrade a car he already owns is probably a better risk than someone who buys a used car with 20,000 miles on it for $20,000. The car company has a chance to make money on each and every customer who comes in to have his car improved...
...Ford could also wait and hope that it will have 15% of a U.S. car market that produces 16 million vehicle sales. It will be waiting for a day that will never come...
...Barons profiles other do-gooders, including Andy Frank, who created the plug-in hybrid car, but those stories are less compelling than Humes' description of Tompkins. The book starts to feel repetitive as we're introduced to one extraordinary green after another. But Humes' ultimate point is well taken: at the very moment when the government began abdicating its responsibilities to the environment, the eco-barons stepped in. "We'd be years behind where we are now without these individuals," says Humes. (Read about Chevy's electric car...