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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

SmartPlanet: Can a taxi company be 'green'?

By | July 21, 2010, 6:41pm PDT

Summary: SF Green Cab’s GM Athan Rebelos says the company’s all hybrid fleet has helped the company reduce costs.

SF Green Cab’s GM Athan Rebelos says, “When I heard that Green Cab was getting Priuses, I literally chuckled, that will never work.” But he admits he was totally wrong. Rebelos talks to SmartPlanet about how the company’s all hybrid fleet has helped the company reduce costs and do less harm to environment all at the same time. He also discusses their carbon offset project and how its incentivizing its cabbies to ride their bikes to work.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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RE: Smart Planet: Can a taxi company be 'green'?
jackson1984-24316069205748857739440257893812 11th Oct
This submit was fairly appropriately printed, and what's more, it reebok jersey carries an awful lot of handy facts. I appreciated your professed system of making this submit.
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Oh please!!!
wackoae 21st Jul 2010
Carbon offset is nothing more than a scam legalized by the UN .... by the people benefiting the most off the scam. So somebody will give them money FOR NOTHING MORE THAN THE RIGHT TO POLLUTE MORE.

Carbon credits are a scam. Instead of helping control pollution, what it really does is legalize the violation of pollution control laws. Hey look I paid $$$ for the mystical carbon credits of a "green" company, so now I can put more pollution in the air.
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This is a private company program...
jasonp@... 22nd Jul 2010
and has nothing to do with the UN or any government programs. Read, think, then type. Amazing what can be accomlished when you follow that paradigm rather than just throwing out irrational comments that have nothing to do with the subject matter at hand.
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That's what you get when the marketplace starts taking things seriously. Grass roots efforts like this are always preferable to direct government involvement. It's a shame that some people will choose to lambaste this company for making a decision that makes financial sense as well as being socially responsible.
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RE: Smart Planet: Can a taxi company be 'green'?
jackson1984-24316069205748857739440257893812 11th Oct
This submit was fairly appropriately printed, and what's more, it reebok jersey carries an awful lot of handy facts. I appreciated your professed system of making this submit.

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