Filed under: consumption, did you know?, gas prices, lowest gas prices, money saving | Tags: cars, fuel efficiency, gas, gas prices, mpg, transportation, vehicles
According to the U.S. Government’s fuel economy site, gas mileage very rapidly decreases once you go past 60mph.
Every 5mph driven over 60mph is like paying an additional $.30 per gallon of gas. Apply that to your weekly gas prices…
Money saving and conservation go hand in hand with being green.
Filed under: current events, energy efficiency tips, energy policy, gas prices, renewable energy, sustainable energy | Tags: alliance to save energy, articles, energy efficiency, gas prices, investments, links, news, opinions, renewable energy, twin pillars
This article is located at the Financial Standard site. I found it encouraging. There’s plenty of depressing energy-related reading material on hand lately. But it’s pleasing to know about the increase in investments.
Something thought-provoking as well: The article brought up two sides of the energy situation – that there is a need to create more energy as well as the need to be using less energy. Energy efficient products and solutions are on the side of requiring less, while realizing the potential of renewable energy is on the side of harnessing more. This all relates to that other article which came out recently and delved into the need for a smarter power grid. That falls into energy efficiency on a larger scale.
I’m saying it’s really interesting to see in action the sort of sibling relationship energy efficiency and renewable energy sources have. As well as to see how an understanding of this relationship is being worked into the minds of everyone who happens to read such news. It goes along with that May 2007 publication by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy: The Twin Pillars of Sustainable Energy: Synergies between Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technology and Policy.
This ripple in ideas is exciting. As it all becomes more and more a basic part of public knowledge, we all benefit as a community.
There’s an opinion article which was published yesterday in the Start Telegram, written by Kateri Callahan of the Alliance to Save Energy which delivers a bit of a happy note as well: Decreasing vehicle miles traveled a sign of the times.
She brings up the changes many Americans are making today as a response to gas prices . . . But also brings up a few alterations made in people’s lifestyles which wouldn’t immediately revert back were gas prices to decrease. And if that weren’t enough info for a great article, she brings up specific trends and steps which Congress and the Bush administration could do well to get behind.
If you’d like to know more about the Alliance to Save Energy, check out their site here.
Filed under: electric car, gas prices | Tags: electric cars, electric vehicles, energy efficient cars, Myers Motors, NmG, No More Gas Personal Electric Vehicle
This is almost an electric car, but smaller.
Myers Motors’ No More Gas (NmG) Personal Electric Vehicle allows a single occupant to get where they need to go without the use of gas (as its title would suggest.) Instead, it runs on electricity (as its title would also suggest.) It’s a three-wheel vehicle which registers, insures, and is parked like a motorcycle. However, a standard driver’s license is suitable for driving it. The NmG is charged at a 110 Volt, 20 amp outlet and can drive speeds in excess of 76mph. Currently, they run for about $30,000.
If you have the means are all fed up with gas prices, it’s something to look at.
Filed under: gas prices, lowest gas prices, observation | Tags: gas prices, lowest gas prices, public transportation
This is great news currently happening in my area: read full story here.
Not only are fewer cars on the road and public trans ridership numbers up by 20% which is great news for the environment, but this also means fewer rage-filled, inconsiderate, law-breakin’ Utah drivers running red lights, rubbernecking at accidents, causing more accidents, shooting at other drivers from their cars, etc. Ha ha.
Seriously, though, it just goes to show that when people are hit where it hurts most (which in this country means the pocketbook) there is no option but to downscale our opulent, wasteful lifestyles regardless of where on the political spectrum people believe these changes place them… Just sayin’.
