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...When 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...
...Department of Energy report that under-inflated tires wasted four million gallons of gas every day. (The department has not updated the report, but says four million gallons is still a reasonable estimate.) She asked, with the withering logic of a child, "Why don't they just pump them up?" He encouraged her to ask the public that very question...
...because we got to put balloons on cars," says Walters, who has since moved with her family to Florida. "A lot of people were like, 'Wow, are you serious, we waste four million gallons of gas every day?' And they said they'd pump their tires up. Only, like, one or two people just drove away and the balloons fell...
Nonsense. Technology and politics--not geology--determine how much we pump and what it costs...
...HYBRID. An SUV will glug $1,831 on average at the pump this year, and a sedan will ring up $1,453, according to the Alliance to Save Energy. Meanwhile, a hybrid will swallow as little as $589--not to mention that tax break of up to $3,000 included in last summer's energy bill for buying...