The Greenest Car is No Car
The greenest car is a bicycle. In fact when you consider all the energy that goes into the production of a car from the mining, to manufacture, to transportation, to marketing, to infrastructure, and of course the final energy requirements it’s kind of ironic that any car could be considered green.
But many of us need our cars for some situations. What we often forget is that we don’t need them for every little errand. Even if you don’t decide to divorce your car like my friends at RowdyKittens, you still may want to consider using your bike more and car less to save money, reduce your carbon footprint, and dependence on fossil fuels.
Here is a good article in the New York Times on what a carfree life is like.
Photo credit lambertwm.
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Hey Michael,
Thanks for the reference.
I didn’t even know you had this blog, I’ll be adding it to my reader to keep up on car trends.
I saw that you have a page to explain peak oil and I wanted to ask if you have heard of peak moment TV? Janaia and Robyn have produced about 150 conversations on community wealth and health as it pertains to peak oil since 2005. They just live up the hill from us in Nevada City, CA. Here’s the link to their conversations page if you or your readers would like to check it out: http://www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/
They even interviewed Van Jones (the current white house green jobs czar) before he made it to the big leagues.
Cheers,
Logan.
Thanks Logan. I’ll check it out and add it as a resource.
I actually just relaunched it after realizing that I could also blog on human powered machines too. But for that I should seek experts on that like you and Tammy to blog with me for that