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"Another step toward the Right-Side Up world is the fact that enterprising inventors have taken these hybrids, reworked the design, and achieved 250 miles per gallon, proving that major fuel efficiency can be had if the desire is there. In the energy sectors beyond ttansportation—industry, commercial and public, and residential—there are readily available solutions that only require common sense and the will to act. Treat the earth The answer can be summed up in one word: renewables. well It was not That's right." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Thanks to our leaders we are not even permitted to improve fuel efficiency by law. Does that seem upside-down to you? The logic of exploiting finite resources without adequate conservation measures rests on a misguided shortsightedness that will lead to economic and environmental disaster. More Answers Than Questions Mary lives close to her office and carpools most days with a group of friends. When doing errands on the weekend she rides her bike around town. People wave at her. She stops and has conversations." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Eight in ten want higher fuel efficiency for cars, trucks, and SUVs. While these trends haven't translated to widespread behavioral changes, clearly we are marching in the direction of the flip to renewable sources. Conversations on the Bridge This seems like a good time to visit our Flipsters of Energy to hear what they have to say on the substantial progress being made in sustainable energy developmenr. We begin with accomplished actress and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, who champions the benefits of biodiesel as an alternative fuel already available on the market today. L." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"That touch will feel like you're coconspirators in marveling at the extraordinary perks of this car, as if to say, "We're both discerning people and we know how poor fuel efficiency usually is, but this one is truly amazing." Touch them when you can see their interest is piqued. Let's say you're a real estate agent, and you've already brought your prospects around to two different houses—one beautiful, but out of their price range, and one horrific, but solidly in their price range. Now you're bringing them to a house you want them to buy—in their price range, very well kept." - Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.)

"One of their big breakthroughs is to give hybrid drivers more control over when they go electric with the use of a new intuitive start/stop system that allows for drivers to increase fuel efficiency by 8 percent. Bosch expects the largest market growth in North America.2 However, another major breakthrough was the company's discontinued use of chlorinated hydrocarbons in 2005.3 www. bosch.com GE In your safe trip, where you are headed counts, and salvation is a real possibility. If so, Jeff Immelt has GE headed in the right direction when it comes to green salvation." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Here's how much oil improvements in fuel efficiency will save Americans (while also cutting billions of tons of global warming pollution), according to the NRDC:24 A 40-mpg standard would save more than 50 billion barrels over the next 50 years, more than 15 times the likely yield of economically recoverable oil from the Arctic Refuge. A 55-mpg standard would save more than 20 times the Arctic Refuge's likely yield. Raising our mpg to 55 by 2020 would cut our projected oil demand in half, and save consumers almost $30 billion per year." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Using ultralight bodies could double the fuel efficiency of today's hybrids, and a greater per-unit ability to absorb crash energy would make such cars as safe as or safer than today's cars. Do we have the will to succeed and break the chains that bind us? We did once. Why not again? The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report Dangerous Addiction observes that, in response to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries oil embargoes of the 1970s, Congress passed tougher fuel-economy standards that helped double the average gas mileage by the late 1980s." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Their "2007-generation" experimental trucks rely on streamlined design and reduced weight to help increase fuel efficiency, while maintaining the capability to transport the same amount of goods. In a carbon-neutral move that also makes financial sense, Wal-Mart hopes to have cut its fuel consumption in half by 2015. Wal-Mart is also committed to conservation efforts. Wal-Mart is working with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to conserve at least one parcel of priority wildlife habitat for every parcel developed in the United States over the next ten years.56 www.walmart." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"A variety of factors could reduce the overall fuel efficiency of the vehicle: it may need more weight for wind safety; real-world streamlining may not match computer estimates; passenger weight could reduce efficiency. That doesn't mean that we should dismiss such designs as novelties that will never have a real place in the consumer world. In fact, we should demand that automakers produce some of their prototyped but never released high-mileage diesel-hybrid designs. Forget hypercars, even diesel versions of the typical gasoline-electric hybrids would be very valuable." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Focus on fuel efficiency: When a car engine is 100 percent fuel efficient, all of the energy produced by the combustion of the gasoline goes directly into making the car go. Nothing is wasted; everything is used. The only things left over, carbon dioxide and water, are expelled through the exhaust pipe. Not exactly major pollution threats. In the current real world, our car engines are only around FACTOIP ( 20 percent efficient. So for five gallons of gas, only one gallon (20 percent) is actually used to power the car." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Just as a family on a tight budget may choose a car based on price and fuel efficiency, an individual without prescription drug insurance might want to consider inexpensive home remedies, over-the-counter treatments, or prescription drugs that are economical. Even folks with insurance may want to control their costs and minimize their risks. / assumed toenail fungus was a fact of life for me. It had spread to five or six toenails when I finally saw a dermatologist." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Between 1975 and 1984, tough corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards caused American cars to double their miles per gallon. However, for the last 15 years, Congress has refused to raise the CAFE standards, and the fuel efficiency of the American vehicle fleet has deteriorated. Increasing the average fuel economy of new cars and light trucks in a single combined category to 42 miles per gallon by 2010 would reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 109 million metric tons." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.) "In 1975, Congress passed a law to increase automobile fuel efficiency by establishing corporate average fuel efficiency stan- dards—referred to as CAFE (pronounced ka-FE) standards. These require each manufacturer to achieve a certain efficiency level for all the car models in its total fleet, averaged together as a whole. As discussed earlier in the section on Clean Transportation, adroit lobbying by Detroit has kept CAFE standards from being strengthened for the past 15 years. The CAFE standard for cars remains stalled at 27.5 miles per gallon, and 20." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.)

"Automobiles were getting larger as the station wagon and van yielded to the supremacy of the sport-utility vehicle (SUV), an expeditionary car based on a light truck chassis and therefore exempt from legislated fuel efficiency standards. In the 1990s, western Europe felt secure and the former Iron Curtain nations of eastern Europe emerged from the coma of communism. The North Sea fields were producing at full blast. Tourism had exploded in response to cheap air travel." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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