Eco-Friendly and Sexy

In an attempt to be "greener" or more "earth-friendly", I'm constantly looking at new ways to improve our biggest use as an individual of fossil fuels - transportation.

We are a society dependent on gasoline for cars, trucks, trains, planes. These vehicles are on the road daily, and their use becomes more and more ubiquitous.

So how do we help the health of the planet and the air we breathe while still maintaining a high level of transportation? We can look at better fuel mileage and choose vehicles that use less fuel and therefore release less toxins into the air. Many people are choosing to forgo the SUV and downsize to a sedan or compact car. Ford is betting their future profitability on this change in consumer behaviour. The use of smaller, more efficient automobiles not only reduces the emissions into the air, but can help us save some money since the cost of gas is outrageously high these days.

I think that alternative fuel sources are the real answer to this problem. If we are going to increase the number of vehicles in use, then the reduction in pollutants that is gained by a gasoline efficient vehicle will eventually be negligible or completely lost altogether.
The only way to reduce the pollution in the air is to stop producing it.

There are a lot of electric cars being debuted at car shows recently, but the coup de gras of them all is the Tesla Roadster. Man is it one sexy car - regardless of its power source! At $100,000 it isn't a cheap option, but that is the price you pay for any car that can go from 0-60 in under 4 seconds. Just think of all the gas you save compared to other supercars who can compete with that speed.

There are definitely more practically priced and designed cars that are fully electric (theres even a pretty cool car that runs on air!), but if I'm going to save the planet from pollution, I want to at least look good doing it.