Ford Fusion Or Toyota Prius: Environmentalist’s Vacation Dilemma

Scenes from Yellowstone National Park, May 2015   [photo: John C. Briggs]

Carbon guilt weighed heavily on my mind as I approached the car rental counter at the Salt Lake City Airport. The book I was reading on the plane (Sustainable Energy, by David JC Mackay) suggested that my portion of the energy for the round-trip plane ride from Boston and back would amount to roughly 12,000 kilowatt-hours. That is roughly equal to… …read more