Americans profess a concern for the environment but spurn those tiny, fuel-efficient cars with names like swift and metro in favor of huge sport-utilities and lumbering minivans that burn a lot more gas. Rather than just react with dismay, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy...published its first Green Guide to Cars and Trucks. [it] doesn't lecture folks on their evil ways, or tell them to buy econo- boxes or electric cars. The premise is simple: even someone who buys a sport-utility might want one that does the least damage to the air.
The Green Business Letter, April 1998
With the drumbeat of announcements from the world's automakers promoting new, less- polluting technologies, it was inevitable that someone would publish a guide to the latest, greenest vehicles. The Green Guide to Cars and Trucks, published by the well-respected American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy provides the first-ever environmental ratings for cars and light trucks. The Guide covers electric-and natural-gas-powered vehicles alongside traditional ones. The Guide's authors converted emissions from the various vehicles into an environmental damage index, or EDX, which was used to create the green scores.
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