Oil prices so far have not led Americans to
buy more fuel efficient but less safe vehicles.
This work includes educating congregations and helping them buy energy efficient lights and appliances, providing energy audits and implementing the recommendations, encouraging people to
buy more fuel efficient vehicles and to drive less, supporting renewable energy development through «greentags,» working on large - scale renewable energy installation projects such as rooftop solar and advocating for sensible energy and global warming policy.
When trying to justify the higher sticker prices its methods will impose on vehicle buyers, EPA's analysis rests primarily (again, 56 to 73 percent, depending on the other assumptions) on the view that it will be directly doing these buyers a favor, by making
them buy more fuel efficient cars that will pay for themselves.
Automakers have argued that the rules could result in the loss of up to 1 million jobs because consumers could be less willing to
buy the more fuel efficient vehicles since their engineering will result in higher price tags.
More than one third of car shoppers say that gas prices will have to top $ 6.51 before they would consider
buying a more fuel efficient vehicle,
Not exact matches
But he's already weighing his options, saying if gas goes to $ 4 a gallon he'll
buy a
more fuel -
efficient car to use as his main ride and drive the Land Cruiser only when he needs it.
Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the
more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in
buying not a
fuel -
efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.
Someone
buys a Ford Excursion and then gas prices go up and says, «I'm never doing that again» and cars get
more fuel efficient.
It's No. 14 there for 2014; in Canada, where smaller,
more fuel -
efficient SUVs find greater favour with the
buying public, it's 27th.
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Then you have to replace
fuel injectors with
more efficient ones,
buy Vitara pistons or forged pistons, H - beam rods and ARP head studs.
Asked why DaimlerChrysler was putting the hybrid technology into an SUV and not a smaller,
more fuel -
efficient car, spokesman Sjoerd Dijkstra said: «Everybody else is going after those little vehicles that nobody
buys.
That's a relatively small number of vehicles for a recall, but the Journey is crucial to Chrysler's turnaround as buyers turn away from pickups and SUVs to
buy more fuel -
efficient cars and crossovers.
If you
buy a Ford anywhere else you will simply pay to much!Reviews: * New,
more fuel -
efficient engines; improved interior; quiet highway ride.
If you have equity in a current vehicle and can trade it in and
buy something less expensive and
more fuel -
efficient, you'll improve your financial situation overall.
Dividends paid in tax
efficient cash each quarter are put towards
buying more shares of underweighted stock positions
fueling more dividends in future quarters slowing gaining ground one share at a time.
And even a TreeHugger has to admit that SUVs and pickups are a lot
more fuel efficient than they were before, so the rebound effect kicks in and people
buy bigger and taller.
So Sutton first
bought and modified a Ford Econoline back in 2006, living in it until last year, when he found a used and much
more fuel -
efficient Sprinter van — 14 feet long and 6 feet tall inside — to replace it.
All of us will need to
buy more of the
fuel -
efficient cars built by this state, and find new ways to improve efficiency and save energy in our own homes and businesses.
Leader in the Pack Rep. Sutton's Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Act would give consumers incentives of $ 3,000 to $ 5,000 for turning in vehicles that are 8 years or older to
buy more fuel -
efficient vehicles or to obtain a transit voucher.
For instance, a market - based policy like a price on carbon might encourage consumers to
buy more fuel -
efficient cars, but it will fall well short of revolutionizing global energy infrastructure and technologies.
Plan 4 is the sneaky plan to increase the ethanol content of gasoline to the point where it will destroy many old cars and force people into
buying new cars that the EPA considers green, such as the Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius, Nissan Leaf, or at the very least,
more fuel -
efficient gasoline powered cars that pollute less and will run on E15.
They'd pay off, too: consumers could save
more than $ 8,000 over the life of a 2025 vehicle, even after
buying the
more fuel -
efficient technology.
These delayed sales might seem like a bad thing (older, less
fuel -
efficient, and dirtier models stay on the road longer), but if we take the long view, they are probably a good thing; by the time people decide to
buy, there will be
more fuel -
efficient models on the market to pick from, and new CAFE
fuel economy rules will have had
more time to take effect.
In the end you have
more fuel efficient cars plus cheap gas which encourages suburban sprawl because people can afford to commute long distances, so then you end up with people
buying bigger houses (which use
more energy) further out into the ever expanding suburbs.
If you care at all about how much gas you
buy, either for monetary or ecological reasons, this feedback will gradually change the way you drive and turn you into a
more fuel efficient driver.
It would not only encourage people to
buy more fuel -
efficient cars, but it would encourage them to drive less, such as by living closer to where they work.
It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour,
buy more fuel -
efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our «addiction to oil.»
Last, price - responsiveness will grow as households have opportunities to
buy more fuel -
efficient vehicles and appliances, and as society transitions to a
more fuel -
efficient infrastructure — once we enact carbon taxes to send clear and strong price signals.
It makes no sense to spend money on green infrastructure — or a bailout of Detroit aimed at stimulating production of
more fuel -
efficient cars — if it is not combined with a tax on carbon that would actually change consumer
buying behavior.
We can
buy cars that are smaller and
more fuel efficient.