Fuel economy is a popular subject these days, and many advertisements talk about how their car is thrifty, miserly, stingy, (or a whole host of other synonyms for "efficient") with its fuel use.

I had been meaning to do this for a long time now. Get a Prius, that is. The thought of fifty miles per gallon was always sort of attractive, but I never could get myself into the showroom.

April, 2008, and Earth Day is upon us.