Dan Becker
Dan Becker
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
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This fuel cell vehicle shows the days of the internal combustion engine are numbered. We don't know how big that number is, but they're definitely on their way out.
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In fact, when you burn coal, you emit more acid rain pollution, more air pollution, more smog and more global warming pollution which threatens the entire planet.
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It's not every day that the Sierra Club is able to applaud Ford's actions.
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The biggest single step to saving money at the gas pump, curbing global warming, and cutting America's oil dependence is to make our cars, SUVs and other trucks go farther on a gallon of gas.
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The biggest single step that the president could take to cut our oil addiction, curb global warming and save consumers money at the gas pump is raising (fuel economy) standards substantially, and that's not what they're doing. They are tinkering around the edges rather than using the most powerful tool they've got.
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We were looking around trying to find answers to this situation.
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As soon as you implement a strong, fixed target for reducing oil use, stricter fuel standards will inevitably come into play. Incentives alone won't do the trick.
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There's lot of options out there for me.
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I've lost faith in the process. The inordinate number of mistakes that have occurred in this election should make everyone concerned.
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Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.
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At a time when Americans are paying record prices for gas, the Bush administration has sided with its cronies in the auto industry and rejected real solutions.
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Ford's move to increase hybrid production is a step in the right direction, and it places hybrids front and center in the future of the auto industry. I think they've learned their lesson (from broken promises in the past), and we take them at their word.
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Ford is at the bottom of the barrel among major auto makers on fuel economy, but today is a better day. Increasing hybrid production is a good step in the right direction.
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Ford is a big part of the global warming problem, but they have failed to adopt more than token solutions.