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"Americans who agree with Friedman are already free to buy hybrid cars, or they can simply drive their existing gas-guzzlers less often. His proposal is not needed for either. What it is really designed to do is discomfort those who don't agree with him; it is merely another way of bossing other people around, under cover of a "good purpose." Do hybrid cars really reduce energy consumption? We don't know. They may use less energy per mile, but they may take more to make. Or to service ... or drivers may be encouraged to drive more." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Story lines, character arcs, even product placement, where characters can be shown using hybrid cars or canvas shopping bags, that sort of thing. We encourage entire story lines about major environmental issues. We also use celebrity to role-model behavior; that's a huge influence. We know celebrities who are supportive of us, and we use the paparazzi and the magazines and the entertainment shows to catch them in their daily lives. We love it when the TV shows Alicia Silverstone walking out of the market and getting into her Prius holding canvas shopping bags." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Promote advanced technology and hybrid cars. 2. Invest in more efficient factories. 3. Encourage high performance building. 4. Increase use of energy efficient appliances. 5. Modernize electrical infrastructure. 6. Expand renewable energy development. 7. Improve transportation options. 8. Reinvest in smart urban growth. 9. Plan for a hydrogen future (a green one). 10. Strengthen regulatory protections. In the interest of brevity, we've offered only the main thrust of each point, but the detail required to bring this vision to fruition is already articulated." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"In other words, the world's auto factories would have to switch over to producing millions of hybrid cars. Whether this would actually reduce energy consumption we don't know, but the changeover itself would require massive new capital investment and retooling—which, itself, would mean the consumption of much more energy. Then, of course, the cities would be stuffed with cars parking for free and there would arise a whole new energy-guzzling bureaucracy to enforce and regulate the new system." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "Americans might feel vaguely superior driving around in hybrid cars and parking in spaces provided at someone else's expense, but they are not likely to have much effect on the oil price. But so what? Why does Friedman think that a high oil price stifles reform, or that the reforms that might be coming are the ones he would want? What if Iran and Saudi Arabia have world improvers of their own, with proposals even more absurd (if conceivable), and more lethal, than Friedman's? But no, Friedman thinks he can see not only his own future but, apparently, everyone else's." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"They predict that hybrid cars will make up 80 percent of the overall car market by 2015. I don't think the actual number will be that high, but it will someday be significantly higher than what J.D. Power predicted; plus, you can expect many more fuel variations to emerge rapidly and far greater mpg with the hybrids spawning new add-on technologies, reflecting greater consumer choice in preferred fuel. Here are some reasons why getting yourself into a more fuel efficient car makes sense. Right now, the auto industry accounts for at least 20 percent of U.S." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"We can buy organic food, use energy-saving lightbiilbs, drive hybrid cars. But even if we do all of those things, we are still probably sporting duds that support some pretty abominable practices. Unfortunately, buying an organic cotton T-shirt has less of an impact than buying an organic apple, as there are many more steps between the cotton field and the T-shirt we put on than there are between the orchard and the apple we eat." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Biofuels, like hybrid cars and rooftop solar panels, are a kind of bridge technology, helping us get where we need to go without cutting us off from our existing systems. Ethanol, an alcohol produced in a variety of ways from cereal grain or biomass waste, is used in gasoline blends with up to 85 percent ethanol (in a mixture known as E85). Vehicles that can burn either gasoline or ethanol blends are called flexible-fuel vehicles, and there are millions of them on the highways in the United States and around the world." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Then the CEO's marketing director brings him some research showing that an increasing number of people are willing to pay a premium for high-performance green products (which is already true, as the popularity of hybrid cars shows), and that some country clubs are already responding to their members' requests to use fewer pesticides, less water, and more native plants on their golf courses (which is also already true)." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Geely Motors, China's biggest privately owned carmaker, plans to make hybrid cars available by the 2008 Olympics; Geely joins state-supported automaker Chery, which expects to bring hybrids to market by late 2006. More advanced local designs are on the drawing board, too, such as the Aspire electric car and the Spring Light 3, a fuel-cell hybrid with a five-thousand-dollar target price. . China is also currently the world's number-one market for electric vehicles." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Family-sized hybrid cars are starting to be sold. The demand for new, low-impact vehicles is going through the roof. In the foreseeable future, all the auto manufacturers will be making them because once consumers change the way they consume, big business is right behind them. I'm moving into a new phase in which I'm focusing on getting the information that supports these choices out to a great many people. The world is open to it at last. My manager is the kind of person who has never concerned himself with any cause like the environment." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

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