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The Silver Bullet for High Gasoline Prices

WASHINGTON, DC, April 27, 2004 -- Everybody is now talking about rising gasoline prices, but, to paraphrase Mark Twain, nobody is doing anything about it. In his new book, Joseph Romm--a former acting assistant Secretary of Energy and author of the book "The Hype about Hydrogen"--explains that short-term solutions--like begging Saudi Arabia to pump more oil or back-pedaling on clean air requirements--can save us at most a few pennies at the pump. The "silver bullet," however, is the gasoline-electric hybrid, which not only cuts your gasoline bill 40% to 50%, but addresses the longer-term problems of oil imports from the Persian Gulf and greenhouse gas emissions. To read more, go to: http://blog.islandpress.org



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