{"id":369680,"date":"2010-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/oaklands-friendly-cab-launches-go-green-ride-clean-campaign\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:00:00","slug":"oaklands-friendly-cab-launches-%e2%80%98go-green-ride-clean%e2%80%99-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/369680","title":{"rendered":"Oakland&#8217;s Friendly Cab launches \u2018Go Green, Ride Clean\u2019 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/02\/27\/green-vehicle_hJrBJ_69.jpg\" alt=\"green vehicle\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> East Bay\u2019s largest taxi company adds 15 new gas-electric hybrid vehicles to fleet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendlycab.com\/\">Friendly Cab<\/a>, the East Bay\u2019s largest taxi transportation company has launched a new \u201cGo Green, Ride Clean\u201d campaign with the addition of 15 new gas-electric hybrid vehicles, which will help save about 1.3 million lbs of CO2 emissions annually.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oakland&#8217;s first for-hire hybrid fleet will be driven primarily in communities of Oakland impacted by pollution, and are purchased within the city, supporting the local economy, tax base, and creating &#8220;green jobs.&#8221; Each conversion from a traditional Ford Crown Victoria to a new Ford Escape Hybrid can offset around 90,000 lbs. of CO2 emissions a year. Other cities have implemented green taxi initiatives, with 17% of San Francisco taxis comprised of hybrids. <\/p>\n<p>Until Friendly Cab launched its &#8220;Go Green, Ride Clean&#8221; campaign with 15 hybrid purchases, Oakland has had no other environmentally-friendly taxi options, mainly because a hybrid vehicle costs three times the price of a regular taxicab.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/inoakland\/detail?&#038;entry_id=58042\">SFGate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: East Bay\u2019s largest taxi company adds 15 new gas-electric hybrid vehicles to fleet. Friendly Cab, the East Bay\u2019s largest taxi transportation company has launched a new \u201cGo Green, Ride Clean\u201d campaign with the addition of 15 new gas-electric hybrid vehicles, which will help save about 1.3 million lbs of CO2 emissions annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}