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Starting to Tank Americans using less gasoline		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:41 PM on 03 Mar 2008 Well, it's finally happened: Americans are starting to use less gasoline. It took a weakened economy and record oil prices -- crude hit an all-time high of $103.95 a barrel Monday -- but in the past six weeks, U.S. gasoline consumption has fallen by an average 1.1 percent from 2007 levels, the most sustained drop in at least 16 years (excepting the dropoff that followed Hurricane Katrina). As Americans move to mitig ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Oiling for a Flight The top 10 best places to live during an oil crisis		29 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Oiling for a Flight The top 10 best places to live during an oil crisis Pack yer bags, kids -- there's an oil crisis coming and we're moving to the Big Apple! Eco-website SustainLane has come up with a list of the 10 U.S. cities best able to weather an oil crisis, and New Yawk is number one. The most heavily weighted factor was mobility; in an oil crunch there's likely to be less of it. Thus, the top 10 were ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds		18 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds According to a new poll released yesterday, fuel efficiency ranks up there with apple pie, baseball, and hating liberals as emblematic of American patriotism. Some 66 percent of Americans believe it's "patriotic" to purchase a fuel-efficient vehicle, as it would aid the U.S. in kicking its addiction ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

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