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The Short Path To Oil Independence

Lester R. Brown

March 17, 2005

If over the next decade we convert the automobile fleet to gas-electric hybrids with the efficiency of today’s Toyota, says the head of the Earth Policy Institute, we could cut our gasoline use in half. No change in the number of vehicles, no change in miles driven just doing it more efficiently. Now if only the auto industry could get out of the way.


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