May 10th, 2005 - SUV
I’m happy to see that our Honda CR-V is the third-best compact SUV in terms of greenness according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) (link is to the entire list so maybe you will find your car, too!).
We’re already looking forward to buy a hybrid SUV for our next car. However, I don’t expect that to be for quite a while! In case you are thinking, “How can someone like AnnMarie own an SUV with her feelings on environment consciousness?” Good question and I wonder myself. It certainly wasn’t my first choice. When we bought the car, we were expecting to have two children, plus we already had a dog. The three would not be able to fit in the backseat of a car. (I also have this thing about minivans, and you can’t restrict the dog to the back anyway.) We now have just one daughter but we have two dogs. So it’s still the best option for us.
I also walk to work 99.9% of the time and we try to limit our trips around town. By the time we’ve owned it two years (the end of June), we’ll have driven less than 18,000 miles, including two trips to New Jersey. (But not including the one we’re taking this summer in July).