Green vehicles are not just in the future and in labs. They are right now and on a street near you with these cars and trucks.
There are lots of reasons to go green: Fuel is expensive, Pope Benedict XVI decreed environmental pollution is a mortal sin, and, surprise of all surprises, depending on how globally you consider the costs, it’s cheaper in the long run. Since definitions of “doing the right thing” number like oxygen molecules in lungs full of fiery rhetoric, that concept won’t even enter into the discussion.
You’ll find no ethanol-burning vehicles on this list. Issues include the facts that fuel consumption increases by 25 percent when you burn E85 and that ethanol continues to be produced mostly from corn. The quantity of corn required to fill an SUV with ethanol could feed a person for a year, a point made all the more pertinent by the riots sparked by food shortages currently peppering the globe.
Before the letters roll in, let us say public transportation rocks, bicycles are great, green is good, and we take showers more frigid than Cruella de Vil’s heart in order to reduce our carbon footprint.
If you’re in the market for new wheels but have taken to knitting sweaters out of your cat’s hair and have replaced all cleaning products in your house with Dr. Bronner’s soap, consider the following choices that employ extremely different tactics in pursuit of a green agenda. A couple of these are only available for lease; the most environmentally friendly option here we’ll give you if come get it the hell out of our parking lot. Of course, you could always buy a used 50-mpg 1994 Honda Civic VX, but if you need something new, here are nine green solutions.
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