Falling Gasoline Use Means United States Can Just Say No to New Pipelines and Food-to-Fuel Janet Larsen www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2013/highlights38 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight March 28, 2013 Freeing America from its dependence on oil from unstable parts of the world is an admirable goal, but many of the proposed solutions—including …
U.S. Gasoline Use Declining, Keystone XL Pipeline Not Needed
U.S. Gasoline Use Declining: Keystone XL Pipeline Not Needed Lester R. Brown www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2011/update100 Earth Policy Release Plan B Update October 6, 2011 For Immediate Release As the debate unfolds about whether to build a 1,711-mile pipeline to carry crude oil from the tar sands in Canada to refineries in Texas, …
Micro-Hybrids – The Fuel Efficiency Innovation of the Decade
Micro-Hybrids – The Fuel Efficiency Innovation of the Decade Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:57 AM PDT John Petersen I’ve been writing about micro-hybrid vehicles and stop-start idle elimination since May 2009. It’s a cheap and simple fuel efficiency innovation that turns the engine off while a car is stopped at …