GREEN TIP # 24
The latest in our series of easy ways to help the environment
SUVs are SEOs: If you’re among the increasing number of North Americans driving a sport utility vehicle, brace yourself, because we’re about to make you feel bad. Your SUV is an SEO - a Serious Environmental Offender.
Current standards for tailpipe emissions allow sport utility vehicles and trucks to pollute more than twice as much as the average new car. And then there’s fuel economy: SUVs guzzle more than 30% more gas than other cars.
For more info: Get the full SUV story, learn how to rate your need for an off-road vehicle and more at Friends of the Earth’s SUV-info website: www.suv.org/introductory.
On your next car purchase, vote with your wallet. Show car manufacturers that there is a market for fuel-efficient vehicles.
- (Source: Green Tips: How to Save Money and the Planet, published by Green Living Enterprises)
SUVs are SEOs: If you’re among the increasing number of North Americans driving a sport utility vehicle, brace yourself, because we’re about to make you feel bad. Your SUV is an SEO - a Serious Environmental Offender.
Current standards for tailpipe emissions allow sport utility vehicles and trucks to pollute more than twice as much as the average new car. And then there’s fuel economy: SUVs guzzle more than 30% more gas than other cars.
For more info: Get the full SUV story, learn how to rate your need for an off-road vehicle and more at Friends of the Earth’s SUV-info website: www.suv.org/introductory.
On your next car purchase, vote with your wallet. Show car manufacturers that there is a market for fuel-efficient vehicles.
- (Source: Green Tips: How to Save Money and the Planet, published by Green Living Enterprises)
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