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Top 5 Green Cars For Suburban Commuters
So you want an affordable car that will stand up to the rigors of the daily drive from the 'burbs to work? Oh, and preferably something that doesn't supersize your carbon footprint in the process?
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I notice only one is a hybrid and only one is pure electric (and over $100K!). Ethanol use as fuel has been found to be an ecological negative, with the water, machinery and processing fuel, soils use, and taking away land used for food agriculture, putting more stress on other agricultural soils and water supplies.
Other all electrics and hybrids are not mentioned. How about the Ford Escape? The great thing about hybrids is that they shut down at stop lights and use mostly pure electric around town. The use of so called "hybrid" fuels (ethanol/gasoline, or bio-diesel/diesel mix) is not a great deal ecologically. Getting great gas mileage is nice, but there is still future oil depletion and increasing AGW (which will be past the tipping points mentioned elsewhere, if fossil fuel use is not reduced 90% by 2020).
Ethanol and hydrogen powered vehicles are just myths designed to steer mass public from the impending need to switch to alternative fuels.
Biodiesel is only effective when it is produced from used oil.
We need large capacity batteries right now!
Last edited by DegredableJackie; 05-02-2012 at 07:27 AM.
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