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Living Without Oil

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: California Policy Forum
12 February 2003 - 12:00pm

As war looms, the search for new energy alternatives is all the more urgent.

This in-depth cover story examines the various alternativesbeingtested to reduce the United States' 20 million-barrel-a-day oildependence.Because transportation consumes the vast majority of our oil, many oftheadvances are taking place in this sector. Among the examples cited, abusinessman who switched his 130 diesel-powered cement mixers andexcavators to biodiesel. Also mentioned: the pluses and minuses ofnaturalgas, biomass, hydrogen, solar and wind technologies. Some say the bestwayto wean ourselves from the oil habit is through conservation. Accordingtothe Sierra Club, if the vehicle fuel economyaverage of 20.8 mpg were raised to 40 mpg, it would save at least 3millionbarrels of oil a day

Full Story: Living Without Oil
Source: U.S. News And World Report, February 17, 2003
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