Young and Green - AAMI

The 2008 AAMI Young Drivers Index shows they are arch the way to a greener future, with ecology factors added influencing adolescent drivers' habits and abstraction their decisions about how they drive, how they biking and what cars they buy. Young drivers are added accommodating to pay money to organisations to bulb copse which account greenhouse gases produced by cars.

Almost one in 5 (18 per cent) adolescent drivers said they participate in programs to account emissions produced by their car, while alone 12 per cent of added drivers crop the aforementioned accomplish to abate their appulse on the environment. And admitting adolescent drivers about earning beneath than added drivers, one-third (33 per cent) said they would pay up to $50 to account emissions, compared with 23 per cent of added drivers. While the analysis shows drivers 25 years and over are added acceptable to accede ecology factors if affairs a car (53 per cent), about bisected of adolescent drivers (47 per cent) said they aswell agency the ambiance into their purchase.

Green Alternatives
Rising petrol prices are hitting adolescent drivers decidedly harder but it appears some are axis their bread-and-butter accident into a win for the environment. According to this year's AAMI Young Drivers Index, about two thirds of adolescent drivers (62 per cent) said the accretion amount of petrol was banishment them to drive less, a amount hardly college than for added drivers (60 per cent). And 64 per cent of drivers age-old 18 - 24 said the ascent amount of ammunition had bargain their all-embracing accepted of living, compared with 58 per cent of drivers age-old 25 years and over.

The analysis aswell showed adolescent drivers were added acceptable to accept an environmentally affable carriage option. Half of drivers age-old 18 - 24 said they aggregate trips whenever possible, admitting alone one-quarter (26 per cent) of added drivers said they carpooled if they could, and added than a third (41 per cent) of adolescent drivers said they acclimated the car if all-important and airing or aeon area possible, compared with 40 per cent of added drivers. Young drivers are hardly added acceptable (28 per cent) to buy booze or ethanol-blend ammunition than added drivers (25 per cent).

Sweeney Research conducted a blast analysis of 2503 men and women drivers, age-old 18 years and older, in the afterward locations about Australia:

Adelaide, Ballarat, Bendigo and Shepparton, Batemans Bay, Bega and Ulladulla, Brisbane, Canberra, Central Queensland, Coffs, Harbour and Port Macquarie, Darwin, Geelong, Gold Coast, Hobart and Launceston, Melbourne, Newcastle and Gosford, North Queensland, Perth, Regional South Australia, Regional Western Australia, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Tamworth, Toowoomba and Darling Downs, Wagga Wagga and Griffith, Wollongong and Nowra

This analysis is accurate by an all-embracing appraisal of car insurance claims lodged in 2007 by AAMI barter in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.