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Allstate Green: a greener auto insurance company?
If you've got a car, you've got to have car insurance. Why not use the greenest one available? Assuming that the prices are at least close to what is offered elsewhere in your area, the decision to use a company that at least appears to care about the environment should be an easy one. Esurance has been doing a few things, and making commercials to let everybody know about it, and now Allstate is trying something new to green up their image. For instance, with each enrollment in "Allstate Green", the company will give $20 to Carbonfund.org to offset one car's worth of emissions per year.
Allstate has also just purchased 24.5 million kilowatts of renewable energy credits through Carbonfund.org. So... they've got that going for them, which is nice.
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[Source: Environmental Leader]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Doog Hardly 7:46PM (12/03/2007)
Allstate Green is currently available to customers in Ohio and Colorado only.
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steven 1:08PM (12/04/2007)
It is not completely clear to me how car insurance actually generates greenhouse gasses which would need to be offset somehow.
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vfx 1:58PM (12/04/2007)
When the Esurance green commercials started running I had an Email dialog with them.
I will say the same to Allstate (my carrier).
You insure cars. Big cars, small cars, dirty cars, and clean cars. If you want to get the green press then give huge discounts to green cars.
Why not charge 1/2 rates to Electric cars and a higher sliding carbon based scale for Alt fuel vehicles.
Sure, when thare are 10s of thousands of EVs on the road getting in accidents they can quietly raise rates but the gesture for now would make for amazing press.
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roya amel 12:59PM (5/02/2009)
I want to know the details of Green Auto insurance.How it is issued ?WHAT IS IT' BENEFITS?AND HOW THE RATE OF INSURANCE IS CALCULATED?
Thank you
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