It’s painfully ironic to see car companies paint themselves green via advertising and showcases at auto shows like the one we just had in Los Angeles, but simultaneously drive backwards, inhibiting efforts to implement practical solutions to global warming. It’s also painfully ironic to see that they’ve filed here int he Central Valley, where asthma rates shoot through the roof because of poor air quality (http://calcleanair.org/), much of it caused by our car culture.