"The Dollars And Sense Of Green Cars" In Westways Magazine

[Green GX]

"Westways" is the magazine of the Automobile Club of Southern California. There's an article on page 44 of the May '08 issue of Westways on the cost of buying and operating an alternative fuel vehicle. The article presents the pros and cons for hybrids, natural gas vehicles and advanced-technology diesels.

The Civic GX was used to represent the CNG vehicles, and as a direct comparison to the gasoline powered LX. The GX gives the others a real run for their money. Their assumptions for crunching the numbers are, understandably, way out of date with regards to gas and diesel prices. They reference the fuel cost calculator at fueleconomy.gov so its easy to plug in your own prices and re-crunch the numbers.

With the higher gas and diesel prices, the NGV's shine even more.

Bill

[freedml]

Re: "The Dollars And Sense Of Green Cars" In Westways Magazine

Hooray! After their article last Fall on 'Green Cars' which totally ignored CNG, I wrote them a stern email which read in part

"it's definitely worth at least a correction in Westways if not a full article."

I guess they went the 'full article' route!

[moore101]

Re: "The Dollars And Sense Of Green Cars" In Westways Magazine

Saw the article it was pretty good and their CNG information was accurate. The only think is they didn't mention the Phill by name instead of home refueling unit. They should have at least mentioned the URL for fuelmaker or something.