Which Way to a ?green? Car Hire Industry?
The car hire industry has been one of the many favorite targets of environmental advocates for many years. One important allegation is that the use of a for hire means the traveler is yet one more source of carbon emissions, when things could have been environmentally better if the person commuted. But a counter-argument by the industry is that public transport is not always an option, and in rural areas a car hire is the only pill available to swallow.
Some say the car hire industry can do better than argue that a hire car is better and friendlier substitute to owning the car itself. Nevertheless, car ownership is on its way up; if the car hire industry wants the previous argument to be plausible, it will have to work harder at its homework. One reason to be grateful for, just the same is the greener hire cars alongside the gas guzzlers.
This last mentioned step consists of company investment on teams of hybrid and low carbon emission cars, which, thanks to the ads of equally worried car companies, are acknowledged to be way lesser environmental hazards. To give you a picture, a Swedish franchise of a large car hire company sunk its money on four hundred ethanol powered cars. In the United States, over a thousand hybrid cars acquired rounds out the scene for the same firm.