Hertz is rolling out a “Green Collection” of rental vehicles, with some fanfare, but I’m not impressed.
The company is touting models with EPA highway ratings of 28 or more miles per gallon, with models like Toyota Camry, Ford Fusion, Buick LaCrosse, and Hyundai Sonata on the list.
Where are the hybrids? Heck, where are the non-hybrid cars with really decent gas mileage, like a Honda Civic?
The Buick LaCrosse gets 19 mpg in the city, and 27 on the highway, according to the EPA’s own site, FuelEconomy.gov. 19. Nine-frickin’-teen miles per gallon is not green.
This is a pathetic attempt to appeal to Americans’ increasing unease about the price of gas. A real green offering would be welcome, but this isn’t it.
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September 7th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Amen, brother. I’m sick to death of companies using the environment as “spin” without actually doing anything about it, especially when it’s not like they couldn’t afford to.
You want kudos for being responsible? Step up and BE responsible, man. Sheesh.
Thanks!
-PD
June 18th, 2007 at 12:11 am
[...] September, Hertz rolled out its “Green Collection” of rental cars and I was thoroughly unimpressed. Buick LaCrosse? Come on. Where were the hybrids? Well, it took nine months, but Hertz finally got [...]
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Maybe rental car companies should offer diesel cars or electric cars… maybe try to expose people to the cool cars that are out there… even a gas smart car…
Hertz needs to stop faining to be environmentally friendly…
August 26th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Yeah, I have to agree that the “green” marketing is getting a bit insane. I just saw an ad for a bank the other day that said “In America we don’t just let the sun shine and the wind blow—we put them to work. Shouldn’t we put our change to work too?” And my first thought was “WTF? We don’t do those things in America!” which was immediately followed by fear that people will watch that commercial and get a warm fuzzy feeling about that bank because it mentioned something green in their ad without even saying that they have green practices. It’s this horrible lazy spin that’s making everyone complacent with the state of things when we should all be doing our best to change the way we live.