Essay by Michelle Nijhuis
Travel – August 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
I’VE HAD IT with gasoline. Not only is it helping melt the glaciers in Glacier National Park, thaw the Alaskan permafrost, and drown low-lying Pacific islands, but it’s also emptying my wallet. So when my husband and I decided to buy a new car recently, we both wanted it to use as little gas as possible — or, better yet, no gas at all.