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shared by Cheryl Casner on 22 May 09 - No Cached

The new single national standard will create a car and light truck fleet in the U.S. that is almost 40 percent cleaner and more fuel-efficient by 2016 than it is today,
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"While the United States makes up less than 5 percent of the world's population, we create roughly a quarter of the world's demand for oil,"
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By 2016, this would raise cars up to 39 miles per gallon and light trucks to 30 miles per gallon.
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The White House says that meeting the standards will cost automakers 600 dollars a vehicle in addition to the 700-dollar-a-car cost automakers face under standards in existing law.
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I want to emphasise: If you buy a car, your investment in a more fuel-efficient vehicle as a result of this standard will pay off in just three years.
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shared by Katrina Johnston Schultz on 24 May 09 - Cached

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced it had deployed 300 new delivery trucks powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to seven cities in Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma and California.
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allow UPS to further reduce its dependence on traditional fossil fuels like gasoline and diesel and lower its carbon footprint. UPS already operates the largest private fleet of alternative fuel vehicles in its industry - 1,819 in total with these additions.
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Continuing to add CNG delivery trucks to our fleet is a sustainable choice because natural gas is a cost effective, clean-burning and readily available fuel."
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trucks are expected to yield a 20 percent emissions reduction over the cleanest diesel engines available in the market today.
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he company recently announced the purchase of seven hydraulic hybrid delivery vehicles, a first in the industry, and has conducted research with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. UPS began deploying alternative fuel vehicles in the 1930s with a fleet of electric trucks that operated in New York City. Just since 2000, the company's "green fleet" has traveled 144 million miles. "Deploying eco-friendly delivery vehicles is one of the many ways UPS demonstrates its commitment to sustainable business practices," added Hall. "The company plans to continue to expand its 'green fleet' and to focus deployments in areas with air quality challenges."
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shared by Katrina Johnston Schultz on 24 May 09 - Cached

10 high-speed rail corridors.
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The high-speed rail corridors run along the East Coast and most of the West Coast, and form networks in the Northeast, Midwest and South, with each corridor extending 100 to 600 miles.Today’s intercity passenger rail services consume one-third less energy per passenger-mile than cars. Building high-speed rail lines on all the federally designated corridors could cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 6 billion pounds per year.
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shared by Katrina Johnston Schultz on 21 May 09 - Cached

Of course, when you replace them with hybrids, the uptake in fuel economy and air quality reduced emissions is significant."
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Each bus costs about $537,000 -- that's approximately $200,000 more than its clean-diesel counterpart. Barker said each hybrid bus uses about 3,000 gallons of gas less annually than the old buses. Depending on gas prices in Louisville, TARC can save up to $12,000 per bus each year.
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"We got these hybrids and overnight we went from being part of the problem to part of the solution," Barker said. "I have never seen quite a change in public attitude as I have saw with that."
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shared by tom mohan on 25 May 09 - Cached

when you operate a gigantic fleet of vehicles, tiny improvements in the efficiency of each one will translate to huge savings overall — is what led U.P.S. to limit further the number of left-hand turns its drivers make.
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The company employs what it calls a “package flow” software program, which among other hyperefficient practices involving the packing and sorting of its cargo, maps out routes for every one of its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make (taking into consideration, of course, those instances where not to make the left-hand turn would result in a ridiculously circuitous route).
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resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons
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