By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
You know your car is a gas hound. But what about the water it requires?
Keeping a car clean, whether you rinse it off in your driveway or get it scrubbed at a professional wash, uses buckets of agua, more than you might realize.
If you’re careful, washing your car at home might use 10 gallons of water, but probably more like 25 or 50. A car wash can use much more, in the range of 75 to 100 gallons.
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Rent fuel efficient vehicles
Many car rental agencies are undergoing a “green” revolution –adding hybrids and fuel efficient vehicles to their fleet. Enterprise, for example, offers more than 3,000 hybrid vehicles and 41,000 flex-fuel vehicles that run on ethanol-based fuel. View a complete list of “green” car rental agencies.
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Study Shows Auto Buyers Are Gas Wise
By Tom Kessler
Almost 90 percent of the car shoppers who visit Kelley Blue Book’s Web site say they are concerned about the future of our environment, company research shows. Among survey respondents, 80 percent agreed that individuals should make lifestyle changes to help reduce CO2 emissions. And 75 percent of KBB shoppers reported that they have made changes to further the betterment of the environment. The most frequent lifestyle changes cited were:
- recycling (54 percent)
- cutting back on driving (46 percent)
- purchasing a fuel-efficient car (31 percent)
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Keeping a car clean, whether you rinse it off in your driveway or get it scrubbed at a professional wash, uses buckets of agua, more than you might realize.