Driving for Efficiency
Now that summer is here, many of us are heading off in our cars on vacations and day trips. We???d all be vacationing out at the Reservoir if we didn???t have the power of gasoline to take us hundreds of miles away. Let???s get the most out of this superfuel.
With gas often $3.50 a gallon, there???s an obvious financial benefit to using it efficiently. And the hot summer temperatures remind us that a planet that???s 2 degrees warmer will not be a pleasant place for our children to live. Decreasing our gas use helps decrease our dependence on foreign oil as well. The Consumer Federation of America estimates that simply increasing our fuel efficiency by 5 miles per gallon would save about 23 billion gallons of gasoline each year, and cut oil imports by about 14 percent.
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