Green Beer

This page is all about green beer, wine and vehicles.  We are not recommending that you drink green beer and then jump into your hybrid and drive off down the road.  This is about sustainable living and green shopping, for beer, wine and vehicles.  So lets get started.

• Beverage Packaging: Drinking beer from a glass bottle might be the greenest way to go.  The best tasting also, as far as I am concerned.  The energy required to make two twelve ounce beer bottles is the same as needed to produce one aluminum can.  Bet you did not know that.





• Domestic vs. Imported: Buy from you local winery or brewery whenever possible.  There will have been no extra energy spent in the transportation of these products.  If that is not an option choose a Bud over an import.  The less your beer and wine has to travel to get to you the greener it is.  There are about 6.5 billion gallons of beer and 690 million gallons of wine consumed in the U.S. per year.  Imagine how that converts into gallons of gas used to transport it all.
• Organic Wine: This is truly a green drink.  Especially if purchased at your local winery.  These wines are affordable and healthy, good tasting also.  A bottle of normal, store bought wine, could have as many as 250 different types of chemicals.

Green vehicles should never be driven after drinking green beer.  But what is a green vehicle?

• Biodiesel: Consider using biodiesel if you drive a diesel vehicle.  It is more energy efficient than diesel and it's renewable and biodegradable.  You could easily save 50 gallons of fuel a year, as well as reducing your carbon emissions by 30%, by using biodiesel B20.  Biodiesel B20 is a fuel containing 20% biodiesel and the rest normal diesel.
• Gas: Save money and stay away from high octane gas.  Unless your manufacturer requires it, or your car runs like crud without it, save your money.



• Hybrid: What's stopping you?  Saving a tank of gas a month is good for your pocket book and good for the earth.
• Used Vehicles: Nine percent of the energy used by a car, over it's lifetime, is consumed in the manufacturing process.  They may not be as energy efficient as a new one, but keeping them out of the salvage yard, and preventing a new one from being built, is a green thing to do.
• Rentals: How about a hybrid next time you rent a car?  You just may fall in love with them.  If not you will still be saving gas.  That is extra money in your pocket and less pollution in the air.  If the rentals saw a demand for hybrids and bought more and if they were rented more, imagine this.  If 20 percent of all cars rented were hybrids a total of fifty million gallons of gasoline would be save each year.  Now that's something to ponder.
• Oil: Do you know how 2.5 billion gallons of oil could be saved every year?  We could all use rerefined oil for your next oil change.  It takes two gallons of used oil to make 5 quarts of rerefined oil, the same five quarts of virgin oil takes two barrels of crude.
• PZEV: Partial zero-emission vehicles run at least 90% cleaner than the average car.  If these were the only cars allowed in L.A. it would take only fifteen years for the pollution to be completely gone.  Why are we waiting?
• Motorcycles:  Don't be misunderstood in thinking all motorcycles are more fuel efficient than cars.  That's just not the case.  Two stroke cycles can emit up to 25% more than a standard car.  To go green would be to buy a four stroke bike, or even better, an electric or hybrid.
• Motor Homes: This one is easy.  Consider a fifth wheel to pull behind your pickup.  They can be just as big and just as fancy but will cost you much less to buy and a lot less to operate and maintain.  You not only get twice the gas mileage but you can also detach the trailer and use the truck for short trips.  Over the course of a year, and eight thousand miles, you would save 500 gallons of gas and about fifteen hundred dollars in fuel costs.

That takes care of your green beer and driving needs, but don't stop here, read all of our green living tips.  Just follow the links below.