Sentences with phrase «buy more fuel efficient cars»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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We can buy cars that are smaller and more fuel efficient.