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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Mine's lighter than yours	David Roberts	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
When society embraces vehicle fuel efficiency as a goal, hordes of smart people converge on it and try to outdo each other. The same thing will happen when we seriously go after electrical efficiency -- a wave of precocious, egotistical young people that haven't been told what can't be done will chase after it trying to make their mark. I bet we're going to proceed faster than people think.
Topics: cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

All You Need Is Lovins A conversation with energy guru Amory Lovins	David Roberts	26 Jul 2007	Main Dish
If politicians think in sound bites and intellectuals think in sentences, Amory Lovins thinks in white papers. His speech is studded with pregnant pauses -- you can almost hear the whirs and clicks as an enormous mass of statistics, analyses, and aphorisms is trimmed and edited into a manageable length. I've talked to experts who struggle to substantiate their answers. Lovins struggles to leave thing ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, biofuels, cars, coal, Congress, energy, energy efficiency, ethanol, fuel efficiency, Iraq, renewable energy (all these topics)

Study: No fuel economy and safety trade-off We can have both	Joseph Romm	23 Jun 2007	Gristmill
A new study entitled 'Sipping Fuel and Saving Lives: Increasing Fuel Economy without Sacrificing Safety' notes: The public, automakers, and policymakers have long worried about trade-offs between increased fuel economy in motor vehicles and reduced safety. The conclusion of a broad group of experts on safety and fuel economy in the auto sector is that no trade-off is required. There are a wide variety of technologies and approaches available to advance vehicle fuel ec ...
Topics: cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase		22 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase First, the good news: the U.S. Senate has passed an energy bill containing the first significant fuel-economy increase in years. The bill requires cars and light trucks to get an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, up from the current 22.2 mpg for l ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, Harry Reid, legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

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