Use Less Gas: An easy, obvious energy fix

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Use Less Gas: An easy, obvious energy fix

by Patricia Mayville-Cox
Jul 7th 2008 @ 12:01PM

Filed under: Cars and Transportation

If you want to help the country save a million barrels of oil a day, here's all you have to do, according to CNN Money:

Drive 5% less.
Slow down.
Inflate your tires.

These simple steps would reduce U.S. oil consumption by 1.3 million barrels a day immediately, according to the Alliance to Save Energy, a group backed by environmental groups and the auto and oil industries. 1.3 million barrels is nearly twice the daily oil that could come from drilling in ANWR, according to the government's Energy Information Administration.

Check out an Alliance to Save Energy website, Drive Smarter Challenge, where you can calculate how much money you can save with six steps.

For more on how to do save gas, see our Green Daily articles below:

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-07-2008 @ 3:35PM

Rozanne said...

The Alliance to Save Energy is mentioned in the article -- what would be most helpful to your readers knowledge of the Alliance's Drive $marter Challenge campaign to help consumers reduce gas costs, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions simultaneously. The website -- www.drivesmarterchallenge.org -- offers extensive money-saving gas tips, resources, myth busters, and discount maintenance coupons. It is the only website where drivers can find out up front exactly how many hundreds of dollars they could save with their specific vehicle by taking six actions. -- Rozanne, Alliance to Save Energy

7-07-2008 @ 8:02PM

Patricia said...

Thanks Rozanne! I've added the website to the main post too. That's a very interesting site. Patricia

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