Austin Texas Real Estate Blog

Austin may be the go to city for green building and innovations in alternative energy and energy saving construction, but it is not so great when it comes to saving on gasoline. A new study from Men’s Health magazine ranks Austinites 43^rd out of a hundred major US cities when it comes to consumption of gasoline, subsequent quality of the city’s air, miles per gallon for their personal vehicles and the city’s mass transit system – both in quality and usage.

That’s still better than other cities in the state of Texas. Arlington hit the bottom of the list at 100^th, and El Paso wasn’t much better, ranking 98^th. Other cities in Texas that hovered near the bottom were Fort Worth at 95, San Antonio at 94, and Houston which came in at 86. Dallas fared a little better, showing up at 67^th.

The best showing for cities in Texas were Lubbock, who came in at 32, and Corpus Christi, who was 34^th.

According to the article in Men�s Health magazine, the poisonous emissions from the tailpipes of personal vehicles are responsible for 17 percent of the country’s greenhouse gases on an annual basis. Using data from such sources as the National Transit Database, the American Lung Association, Texas A&M’s Texas Transportation Institute and others, Men’s Health compiled the report, focusing on consumption, annual miles driven, the size, age, and tune-up schedule of personal vehicles, adding ozone and particulate matter in the city’s air plus the quality and usage of regional mass transit systems.