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With electric pace car, NASCAR puts pedal down on green efforts

The Washington Post -- At its essence, NASCAR is an ear-blasting, exhaust-spewing, gas-guzzling celebration of unbridled horsepower. Its racecars get five miles per gallon under optimum conditions. And over the course of a 36-race season, NASCAR’s elite Sprint Cup division burns through more than 135,000 gallons of fuel.

But in a world turned green, NASCAR is waking up to the reality that American attitudes about automobiles are shifting — from consumers’ demands for better gas mileage to heightened concern about global warming. Lest NASCAR be relegated to the scrap heap as a pointless spectacle that squanders precious fossil fuel, the sport in 2008 launched an initiative known as NASCAR Green and, ever since, has been advocating environmental stewardship — with a straight face, no less.

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Submitted Apr 28, 2012 By: ziyulu

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AnObserver Champion Author New Jersey Posts:8,494 Points:2,285,480 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Apr 27, 2012 9:27:33 PM Ignore AnObserver Report Abuse Well if NASCAR uses them electric cars must have arrived ... NOT
mcmonsta Champion Author Honolulu Posts:3,347 Points:845,470 Joined:Sep 2009	Message Posted: Apr 27, 2012 9:26:26 PM Ignore mcmonsta Report Abuse pace car ...sure. race car...let them make another green race
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cheapchickKY Champion Author Lexington Posts:4,159 Points:823,990 Joined:Jan 2011	Message Posted: Apr 27, 2012 9:18:24 PM Ignore cheapchickKY Report Abuse I know a silent movie won the Oscar, but a silent NASCAR race?