Posts Tagged ‘fuel efficiency’

Hey buddy, can you spare a planet?

Posted Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 by admin

North America contains just five per cent of the world’s population, yet we consume 33 per cent of the world’s resources. If every person on the planet consumed as much as us, we would require at least four more planets to feed the demand. At the heart of our unsustainable North American lifestyle is the waste of materials and energy.

Read more in my latest Backbone column at http://bit.ly/9uK57f

Oil & Gas Subsidies worldwide total $250 Billion

Posted Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 by admin

Oil and gas subsidies worldwide total $250 billion. Peak oil is upon us. Why companies need to become energy and fuel efficient now. See my National Post column at http://bit.ly/8FU5fH

Converting 200,000 NA taxis to hybrid Priuses would save $50B by 2016 in fuel

Posted Saturday, August 8th, 2009 by admin

My latest column in Friday’s National Post (Aug 7): If all 200,000 taxis in North America were Prius cabs — or got the same fuel efficiency — the industry would save more than $50 billion in fuel between now and 2016 — that’s more than $US11,000 a year per taxi. See http://bit.ly/5iLrCQ for the full story.

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