British Insurer Rewards "Environmentally Friendly Motoring"
by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, St. Louis, MO on 10. 4.06
British auto insurer Yes Insurance announced a program yesterday that offers rebates to owners of hybrid cars. Company spokesperson Paul Purdy claimed that the cash-back program is the first of its kind in the UK, and that Yes has a responsibility to make British drivers aware of "the wider social implications of motoring" He also announced that this program was the beginning of "a broader scheme" to provide lower insurance premiums to drivers of "...fuel-efficient, low-emission vehicles." We don't know if these drivers have less accidents than others, but we do know that the incentives are piling up in the UK: hybrid drivers pay lower car taxes, and are exempt from London's congestion charge. And the cars pay for themselves in fuel savings... ::Guardian Unlimited
Sadly, this will never happen in the US...
To bad it's already happening in the US.
To bad it's already happening in the US.
Where? And why is it bad?
Sign me up. My car gets 50mpg and runs on biodiesel.
i was actually lying in bed last night thinking about this exact idea. which i guess means its true, any amazing thing you think of someone else has thought of before. i like it though, and alot of insurance companies dont just insure drivers, but deal in health insurance too, making this in their best interest, better air quality, less people becoming ill. its a win win. now if only they would charge a penalty for gas guzzlers, id be jumping for joy.
What's bad is Ed's snide comment that it won't happen in the US. Yet it has been for about at year and a simple google search you can find out more. http://www.farmers.com/FarmComm/WebSite/html/media_center/Oct_17_05.html
What's bad is Ed's snide comment that it won't happen in the US.
Huh. You said "too bad it's already happening in the US". So what you meant is "I beg to differ. It's already happening in the US."?
Ed was lamenting, not being snide. If the meaning of your response to him is as I have paraphrased above, the person making a snide comment is you. Also saying "do a simple google search" is snide. Heal thyself.
If, on the other hand, by "too bad" you mean it's a bad thing that insurers are offering hybrid discounts, then I would still like to know why that's a bad thing.
This is an even better idea and is curretnyl going on.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5408338.stm
Yep, that's a great idea, too.