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...Walters was nine years old, she founded Pump 'em Up, a campaign encouraging the drivers of the world's estimated 600 million cars to properly inflate their vehicle's tires and improve their car's efficiency by up to 3 per cent, or, for U.S. drivers, 9 cents per gallon...
...Although drilling in ANWR would have a larger impact than Walters' conservation campaign-the U.S. Geological Service believes that the total amount of economically recoverable oil in ANWR is 3.2 billion barrels, or 134 billion gallons-, it's a start toward fuel-consumption savings that could dwarf the capacity of the Arctic range. Increasing the efficiency of U.S. cars, SUVs and light trucks by four miles per gallon, for example, is said to be equivalent to developing an oil field 10 times the size of ANWR-without the negative environmental impact...
...homeless parish employees, councilman-at-large Joey DiFatta is echoing that subversive sentiment after hearing some critics in Washington claim that St. Bernard should not be rebuilt at all. "I'll tell you why we need to rebuild this parish. When that bastard up north is paying $5 a gallon because the two biggest oil refineries in Louisiana--both located here--are not producing gas for his fat-cat car, that's when he'll learn about St. Bernard Parish," he says. "They better realize we count. The rest of the nation capitalizes on us, and we're tired...
With gas prices so high, cut-rate fueling stops have become a seasonal draw; bedandbreakfast.com and bbonline.com list fall gas promotions and reduced rates, such as 20% "gas relief" discounts or gas cards at inns nationwide. You can earn a gallon of gas for every bag of leaves collected from the lawn at the Hummingbird Inn in Goshen, Va. (up to a five-bag limit). The Kingsley House Bed & Breakfast in Fennville, Mich., is offering 2 gal. of gas (6 gal. maximum) for every gallon of apple cider or half bushel of apples you purchase at nearby Crane's apple...
After Hurricane Katrina damaged oil refineries in the Gulf Coast region, the price of heating oil rose to more than $2 per gallon, compared with $1.70 per gallon in July, according to a letter sent to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee last month...