The road to energy conservation
By Allen E. Smith | Monday, November 19, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“…Two-thirds of the petroleum consumed in this country is used in transportation. Imagine if we doubled transportation efficiency and cut that two-thirds in half. Consuming 21 billion barrels of petroleum per year in the United States, we use 14 billion barrels in transportation alone – saving half of that would be 7 billion barrels per year.
If Congress directed Detroit to double all vehicle fuel efficiency, the resulting oil saving is only the first of many benefits that would accrue to our national well-being….”…BS
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