NYC Yellow Cabs Being Repainted Green?

Ok well not really….but maybe someday. Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing a different color than yellow. Anyways NYC is speeding up the process of turning their yellow taxi fleet to hybrids at the rate of 300 cars a month. There are already over 1,000 hybrid taxis running around NYC as I type this. The NY Taxi and Limo Commission said that its entire fleet of taxis will be all-hybrid by 2012.

This is another “green” initiative of Mayor/Billionaire/Political Party Flip Flopper Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Bloomberg has said he wants accomplish 127 “green” initiatives before his final term is up in 2010. Thats pretty ambitious Mr. Bloomberg, lets hope you don’t change your mind down the road. By the way for those who were wondering Mr. Bloomberg is the 25th richest person in the United States according to Forbes’s 2007 list.

Original Article via Reuters.

The GGG View (With almost every post we will give our readers our view on the post subject and how it could effect you as an everyday consumer)

This is a good thing for all parties involved. The taxi drivers save tons of money on gas per year, automakers like Ford and Chevy get some much needed revenue and NYC becomes a little less polluted which it needs given the fact it is currently 8th the list of most polluted (ozone) cities in America. And who knows maybe more money in the drivers pockets equals lower fares for us the passengers….ya highly doubt that but who knows.