Small is not always “Green”

What a wonderful Mother’s Day, even though it wasn’t all that green.
I launched this blog a week ago and it’s been an exercise of shifting my mindset.

I want us to connect and appreciate how funny life can be when you simply reflect the reality of your green day, good, bad, indifferent.

Yesterday was an eye opener with my brother, a well-educated walking Wikipedia of life, who was helping me understand what car to buy and why?

We were on our way to see Star Trek, and I spotted a Smart Car and said “Look, a shopping cart with an airbag”. He said, “Oh, that thing, the two-seater golf cart?

I was fascinated at what he told me next. Read More about Small is not always “Green”

1) It runs on gas, no electric and only gets 27 miles per gallon on a good day.
2) Expensive - around $23,000.
3) At 100,000 miles you have to replace the battery. $6,000 for new batteries and the $150 charge from the dealer to dump it. How long do batteries sit in the ground and how harmful is that to the planet? I don’t know yet.
4) Smart Cars are made in Germany and get hauled on a big carbon of the sea footprint to hit our shores for sale.