New web site VroomVroomVroom.com (I’ll just call it Vroom from here on out) aggregates car rentals into one-stop online renting. Enter your travel dates and destination, and Vroom will find you the best rental deal. The difference is, the company will pay to neutralize the carbon spewed into the air by your rental car.
Vroom has teamed with CarbonNeutral to accomplish its green goals. They figure one gallon of gas puts out about 20 pounds of CO2. They calculate distance driven and the fuel efficiency of the rental car to determine how much they need to pay for offsets.
Vroom doesn’t specialize in finding hybrids to rent or low-mpg cars. It’s just a portal for comparison shopping with Avis, Hertz, Alamo, Budget, and the rest of the big rental guys. Tracking down a rentable Prius is up to you, but this site could help you find a good price or ease the guilt if all you can find to rent is a gas-guzzling, full-sized sedan or smiliar.