By Sheryl Canter
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense Fund.
Oil is over $100 a barrel now -- an all-time high. Even if burning gasoline weren't a major cause of global warming, a price that high is motivation to conserve.
But we don't seem to be trying very hard.
Here are some numbers that make the point from Earth: The Sequel, the new book by EDF President Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn. (All profits from book sales support our global warming work.)
Efficiency
Last December, Congress passed an Energy Bill that raised
CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards for the first time in 32
years. It took significant negotiation to push this through, and yet we are
still far behind Europe and Asia.
Gasoline burned
It's hard to wrap your mind around how much oil we actually burn. A post
from earlier this year might help: Picturing
21 Million Barrels of Oil (the amount we burned last August).
Clearly we need to do more to reduce our use of gasoline. Better fuel standards are important, but there are many things we can do on our own. Check out some of our previous posts for tips:
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