Why Not Lime?

Sah-weet! EnviroCAB!

I think about getting a new car, and I think about what I would get. Fuel-efficiency is by far one of my biggest concerns, the next being what kind of a stereo system it has.

But driving is still pollution, and in Omaha, we drive daily.

Maybe I should just stop driving. Maybe I should ride my bike to work. Maybe I should take the bus. Maybe I could hitchhike to the downtown area every morning.

Can you imagine me on the corner of 60th and Blondo at 7:45 AM with my arm extended, thumb raised, wearing my dirty blue Jansport, holding a sign that says “downtown please”? I mean, I look friendly enough. Pretty harmless. I’m thinking someone would stop.

And THEN I could just get rid of my CAR… no more car payments, car insurance, registration fees, car washes, speeding tickets, cleaning up an exploded pop can in my front seat….

I’d be in top shape. For sure.

This past summer, a friend of mine had me thinking about a scooter.

I just asked my roommate (who rides a Harley Davidson and built his own motorcycle) if he would talk to me if I drove one. He said he wouldn’t, but I don’t believe him.

I just ran across this green blog and blog post about the new EnviroCAB. Do you think it was an environmentally conscious taxi-cab driver who started this one, or a smart entrepreneur? I’m thinking the latter, but here-here. Grand idea, especially for a place like D.C. where people cab it daily.

I wonder what it would take to pull something like this together in Omaha? I guess that Omahans don’t cab it very often, but if we did, this would be awesome. I would use it. If I lived in D.C., I’d probably diss the other cabs. I’d be stuck up like that.

Would you dismiss the traditional cab if you had the option? Would you EnviroCAB-it?

I’d like to know.

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