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The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) recently released an informative video: The Power of Scale.
What fleet efficiency can do for your company and the planet
This video seeks to provide a path to understand that individual actions can add up, inexorably, to something much larger. Just like millions of SUV tailpipes are contributing to driving climate chaos, [...]

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This is a question that came into my inbox amid an exchange about the CARS Program:
Is it worth $2000 to the country to increase the MPG of one vehicle by say 10 mpg?
Of course, that is a stove piped question (and somewhat out of context one as that increased MPG, by the way, cost $4.5k [...]

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Putting fuel efficiency feedback systems on the dashboard of every American automobile (both existing and new) could well be one of the most cost effective tools for quick reduction in America’s oil dependency and, as well, to improve traffic safety (and reduce) fatalities.   These feedback systems can be as ’simple’ as solely providing real-time miles [...]

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Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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We will, hold our breath, see a significant shift this Tuesday in the political structure when it comes to taking action to blunt the impacts of Global Warming and change our path toward a more sensible energy future. From the Oval Office, a new message and new direction will go out. In the Halls of [...]

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Before entering the ballot box, you have the right. No, actually, the responsibility to know candidates’ positions on the critical issues before us and before the US. And, a new tool has emerged for doing so on critical energy and environmental issues.
Candid Answers provides a path for voters (for citizens) to query quickly candidates on [...]

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Americans United for Change has launched a campaign to Free Our Oil! While an interesting response to the Republican focus on lying to support drilling, I challenged this campaign, stating that this effort supports a quite dangerous framing of the problems and solutions.
If we make this just about gas prices, we are caught into a [...]

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It is ever so tempting to scream “GAS PRICES” and call for lowered gas prices if you are a candidate challenging for Congress or elsewhere. Ever so tempting to pander to (quite real) concerns about skyrocketing prices with counterproductive calls for cutting gasoline prices. These, however, fly in the face of the realities of Peak [...]

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Two Washington Post articles in the past week provide an interesting little localized contrast of the challenges related to finding a path toward an Energy Smart future.

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AFS Trinity, a leading company in flywheel and other power storage systems, has just announced a 150 mile per gallon plug-in-hybrid variant of a Saturn VUE.  
“Extreme Hybrids™ don’t need high priced technology and don’t require new or expensive fuels, such as hydrogen, which, according to Argonne National Labs, will cost twice as much as gasoline [...]

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