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CNN is featuring a story on "green" cars and "mean" cars. The greens are about what you'd expect - small, efficient gas or gas/electric hybrids with a natural gas powered model thrown in for good measure. The "meanest" category is where I found something that shouldn't have surprised me but did anyway: 5 out of the 12 "meanest" were picked solely, it seems, because they are Diesel powered. At spots 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7 are the VW Toreag Diesel, Mercedes GL320, Jeep Grand Cherokee Diesel, Mercedes R320 CDI and the Mercedes ML320 CDI. All these vehicles achieve better fuel efficiency than the other gas powered vehicles on the meanest list and can, from day 1, use power derived from a renewable energy source (Biodiesel). Also I'm left to wonder, is a VW Toreag gas model that is less fuel efficient than the Diesel model somehow less "mean"? It seems this is what is implied though no logic for the rankings, if there is or ever was any, is provided.

For years the environmental crowd has hated, no LOATHED, Diesel powered vehicles for no real reason. I'm quite sure they are happy as clams that the price of Diesel is sky-high which I'm very sure they hope will steer people away from fuel efficient vehicles from VW and other manufactures.

It just goes to show you - if you're a SUV or Diesel powered then doggone it, you must be evil. God help you if you are both.