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Greenest Cars
Are you considering buying a car but not sure which is the greenest? Are you trying to research car by car and compare? You don’t need to, because somebody else has already done all the work for you.
Let us introduce you to greenercars.org, the official website for the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a Washington, D.C.-based independent, non-profit research group. ACEEE has created the Green Book–a unique consumer resource providing Green Scores rating the environmental friendliness of every vehicle on market.
You can research the rating of any car on the market, or you can look at the ratings by category–for example, you can see the top greenest cars of 2008.
The site also provides some very smart green driving tips. Here’s a teaser: Avoid “jack rabbit” starts and aggressive driving. Flooring the gas pedal not only wastes gas, it leads to drastically higher pollution rates. One second of high-powered driving can produce nearly the same volume of carbon monoxide emissions as a half hour of normal driving.
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add your comment »I like too see more action and less talk...we are way behind now...
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Great site. Can't wait to get my own electric car!
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Yes - We need more electric cars.
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Now we just need electric cars.
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Go Biodiesel, Local Brew only
Prius is ok but unsafe (small death trap)and gas/electric.
Too bad one day so many batteries from these cars will be in the landfill. We will say major ops.
Hippie wholesome biodiesel, local brew, locally produced from greas binds at your local resturant. Bi-product=glicerin aka soap.
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The Hummers! What's all that about?? Someone told me the other day that California had a plan a few years ago to introduce electric cars/zero emission cars and that under pressure from Mr Oilman, the 750 vehicles were taken off the road and crushed, shortly after the Hummers appeared on the roads. It smacks of male machoism/ shortage of brain cells or something like that. The Hummer has to be the most ugly, pointless car ever designed, a by product of ol Mr US Military. Don't get, not at all. I tell you as someone writing from Europe, we are baffled by what we see and hear going on in the states as typified by the Hummer. I know there's lots of good uns of you genuinely concerned and wanting to change the way things are. Thanks be to you know who!Anyone check out Water4Gas.com sites and products, theres a cheap and seemingly easy way to reduce emissions,boost power and use less fuel...
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What I mean to say by that is I am disappointed to read the list of greenest cars in the article - none are getting over 50mpg. Not good enough. The other point is that my car was affordable, unlike a Prius. It is low income families etc that need to be able to buy greener vehicles, its all very well targetting the well-to-do with LEXUS hybrids which are totally overspecified and use far too much energy to build, just to ease the conscience of those people who don't cut the number of car journeys they make, don't cycle, don't use public transport. My car was affordable as are the new generation of one litre petrol cars like Citroen C1/Peugeot 106/Toyota Aygo. Small is beautiful..enough ranting, just felt compelled to write something to some of your readers in the states just to tell them that yours is a world away from the european reality. Why doesn't the US car industry treat these issues seriously? Perhaps cos its in cohoots with the OIL industry. And a small car is just as fast as a big one in congestion which is for many an every day reality. Just some late nights thoughts. Would be interested in responses!
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it is incredible how far behind you are in the states with green cars. Here in Europe, there is a multitude of comfortable, practical, low emission and low fuel consumption cars. I recently bought a Fiat Panda 1.2 multijet diesel which is averaging 70 mpg. The car cost £6200 brand new and only gives off 114mg CO2 which means it is exempt from congestion tax into London and is on lowest road tax duty. And this isnt the greenest. What's more it doesnt use expensive battery hybrid technology, just a well designed economical car. Diesel is £1.20 a litre now which is equivalent of £5.40 for an imperial gallon!! you are having it far TOO easy for TOO long!!
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