"Thirty-nine percent of car shoppers are considering a hybrid or electric vehicle for their next new-car purchase"

While the biggest bang for the environmental buck is for fleets to convert to alternate fuels, we’re always interested in the public’s response to the topic, too. So we were particularly pleased to see that when Consumer Reports recently interviewed 1700 people to see whether they would purchase a vehicle powered by something cleaner than gasoline, one-third responded affirmatively. They expressed interest in hybrid and flex-fuel vehicles, followed by natural gas, propane, hydrogen fuel cell and biodiesel. Click here for full details.