Re: Green vehicles of 2007

"Spam away" <Trashhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> A good summary of the 12 best and worst green vehicles.
> http://www.greenercars.com/bestof.html
>
> In the best list it's all Asian makes.  Most here know who they are!
> In the worst Mercedes has 4 places and Chrysler has 2, giving DC 50% of
> the worst vehicles.

The Honda Civic GX as a compressed natural gas user is touted #1 in this
rating. Great! Remember when the Diesel Rabbit came out and a number of
carmakers decided this was the way to save money on gasoline?. Right.
Diesel
oil that had been running maybe 70% to 90% of the cost of gasoline
suddenly
shot up to prices consistently (to this day) higher than gasoline, despite
the easier (I believe) process of refining. I guess we can all count on
winter home heating costs to skyrocket, now. Great!

However even apart from this wonderful development, we still have the CNG
engine idling for hours in big city rush hour traffic, while the Prius
just
turns on its engine every now and then to recharge the battery most
efficiently when needed. I'm sure that Civic GX is real green then.

Chuck