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In February, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) announced 2006's "greenest" and "meanest" vehicles, as well as listing the environmental scores for every car and passenger truck from that year. The scores are contained in the ninth edition of ACEEE's Green Book® Online, which is available online at GreenerCars.com.

Not surprisingly, the greenest vehicles on the ACEEE list were all hybrid or alternative fuel cars. The winning manufacturer for 2006 was definitely Honda, whose hybrid-electric Insight finished in a virtual tie with their natural gas-powered Civic GX. Toyota's Prius captured third, while another Honda (Civic Hybrid) and a second Toyota (Corolla) rounded out the top five.

The numbers didn't bode particularly well for U.S. manufacturers, who scored only four top ratings of the fourteen vehicle categories rated by ACEEE. It shows that Detroit still has a ways to go to catch up to the imports when it comes to producing green vehicles, even though GM has been running a huge ad campaign touting the fact that 1.5 million of their vehicles will run on E85--which is definitely a start. However, there is still a long way to go before U.S. automakers can close the gap with their foreign competition when it comes to building green machines.

But the news gets worse, according to ACEEE ratings of "mean machines." When it comes to the least green of the entire 2006 crop of vehicles, Dodge captured the award for its Ram SRT10, followed by Lamborghini's Murcielago, Bentley's Arnage, and two more Dodges, the Durango and Ram 1500 250 pickup. Several pickups and SUVs rounded out the "bottom ten," including the Hummer's H2, Ford's F250 pickup, GMC's Yukon XL K2500, Volkswagen's Touareg, and Chevrolet's Suburban K2500.

With gasoline prices expected to continue to escalate, auto manufacturers will continue to feel the pressure from consumers to build more efficient vehicles, incorporating more and more hybrid features to offset the hit their customers are feeling at the gas pump. ACEEE recognized some effort by automakers by awarding some "Greener Choices" listings to such widely available vehicles as Ford's Escape Hybrid SUV, the Honda Odyssey minivan, Toyota's Tundra pickup, the Hyundai Sonata, and Ford's Focus Wagon. The ACEEE recognition demonstrated that automakers are at least moving in the right direction with some of their more popular vehicles.

The ACEEE points out that simply changing vehicles to the top of a particular class can easily save a consumer more than $500--while reducing greenhouse gas emissions some 30 percent. For more information about the ACEEE ratings, see GreenerCars.com.

Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher

Jeanette Fisher, author of interior design and real estate books helps home owners makeover their homes with "green design." For more home environmental issue articles, visit Environmental Psychology

Vehicles Running on E85 Available in the United States

Due to the increased threat of global warming and the Bush administration’s goal to reduce gasoline consumption, the alternative fuel industry has been booming. There are already pumps in the United States which supplies alternative fuels like biodiesel and bio-ethanol for owners of vehicles which run on such fuels. These alternative fuels are serving a host of flex fuel vehicles already being sold in the U.S.

Vehicles which run on E85, a combination of bio-ethanol and conventional gasoline, are already making their appearances in showrooms and roads across the United States. These vehicles burn cleaner fuel and therefore produce less greenhouse gases which contribute to the protection of the environment.

Vehicles running on E85 are increasing in number. Bio-ethanol powered vehicles which are available in the United States include the Buick Terraza; the Chevrolet Avalanche, Express, Impala, Monte Carlo, Silverado, Suburban, Tahoe, and Uplander; the Chrysler Aspen, Sebring, and Town & Country; for Dodge, the Caravan/ Grand Caravan, Durango, Dakota, and the Ram. Two Ford vehicles are also available in E85 fuel configuration - the Ford Crown Victoria and the Ford F-150 Pickup Truck. GMC offers four flex fuel vehicles - the GMC Savana, Sierra, Yukon, and Yukon XL. Other flex fuel vehicles are the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Commander, Lincoln Town Car, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Mercury Grand Marquis, Nissan Armada and the Nissan Titan and the latter two can be fitted with a Nissan cold air intake system for a better performance.

The use of bio-ethanol on engines is unlike biodiesel which does not need modification. Since ethanol is corrosive in nature, different parts of the engine and other auto parts needs to be fortified to withstand the corrosive nature of the fuel. The price of bio-ethanol is lower than that of gasoline but it contains less energy per gallon which means that consumers will consume more fuel to travel a given distance compared when using gasoline.

But the positive thing about the use of bio-ethanol is that it produces 80 percent less greenhouse gas when burned compared to petroleum gasoline. This means that vehicles running on E85 contribute less to global warming. Another advantage that bio-ethanol has over gasoline is that it comes from a renewable source. Bio-ethanol is produced from starch or sugar which is present on a wide variety of crops.

Currently, bio-ethanol as fuel is just entering its development phase and although E85 is already available and vehicles are already being manufactured to run on the fuel, there is still a lot of development that the fuel needs to go through. President Bush recently urged the U.S. Congress to approve the requested fund for the development of ethanol as fuel.

Today, the main source of ethanol is corn although there are also other sources of the said alternative fuel like wood chips. Further development of ethanol will bring the cost of the fuel even lower to make it really practical for consumers.

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2003 Suburban dies repeatedly when cold.?

My moms 2003 Chevrolet Suburban will die repeatedly when its cold in the morning. it will start go for a while and go chu-chu-chu-then dies. She spends about 5 minutes every morning restarting the suburban until it will stay on. this only happens when its cold. My dad has a 2002 GMC Yukon (basically the same thing), but it doesn't have this problem.

whats going on?

A shot in the dark, but my wife's old Volvo did that on cold mornings unless I cleaned the throttle body every fall. Throttle body cleaning is inexpensive at a shop and is an easy do-it-yourself job with carburetor cleaner.

Suspect Arrested In Burglary Spree
CORPUS CHRISTI - Officers arrested 19-year-old Joe Deluna this weekend and charged him with several counts of burglary and for the theft of an SUV. Here's a rundown of the crime spree on Sunday. 09:50 hrs - Burglary of Building/Burglary of Vehicle - 7425 Lake Como Tarin Whittington reported an unknown suspect entered her garage that she had left halfway open. She discovered her 2000 white Dodge ...

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