Remember that thing about reduce, reuse, recycle?

The 80's/90's environmentalism push was, in my mind, best summed up in that little phrase. It's best to just reduce how much stuff you use, and find new uses for what you already have used. If you must toss things out, recycle them. Common sense, right? And it's clearly tied in with the current push to increase the efficiency of cars and trucks.

The new Toyota Tundra truck gets, at absolute best, 20 mpg on the highway and 17 in city driving. The least efficient model, with a 5.7L V8* gets 14/18.

18 miles per gallon.

For comparison, a relatively comparable truck, the Chevy Colorado 'crew cab' gets 18/24. A 2007 Honda Civic Si gets about 23/32mpg. The 2007 Civic hybrid gets about 40/45. Interesting.

*In all honesty I don't actually know what this means beyond 'bigger engine'.