How Energy Efficient Is Your Car?

This new website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be increasingly useful as a way to find and compare the many alternative fuel vehicles coming online.

I chose the Honda Civic, since that’s the car I own. Two clicks later, I found the year 2000 model gets no better gas mileage than my 1999 model (28 mpg city, 35 mpg highway), the annual fuel cost is $599 and annual greenhouse gas emissions are 6.3 tons. A very useful next step for the website would be for it to automatically recommend similar cars that offer greater efficiency.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov