Green Options

Using this Driving Directions and Fuel Efficiency Tool you can calculate the dollar and environmental cost of your daily commute, or almost any other type of trip you make in your car. The various ways we can reduce our fuel consumption have been widely published, but many people do not understand the impact each change in their driving behavior will make.

Preventative care is always better than going to the Emergency Room. That's an appropriate comment whether discussing personal health or car maintenance. Today we'd like to finish up our multi-part car care series by mentioning a few things we haven't hit on so far.

Could a shift in green thinking from world-wide automakers simply be a little window-dressing? Chrysler's Chief Economist, Van Jolissaint, answered this slightly by describing climate change as something "way, way in the future and with a degree of uncertainty."

Forget 'Tom-Tom'! The navigation systems coming down the pipe will do more than get you to the correct destination; they will also soon help you conserve fuel and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A satnav system, at the Lund Institute of Technology, has been developed to give motorists the most efficient route.

"The team assigned fuel consumption factors for three types of car on 22 streets in a satnav's digital map database. These were based

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