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Jun 30, 2009

Save Gas, Reduce Emissions with Better A/C

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory have set their sights on one of the least efficient systems in modern automobiles: the air conditioning. The laboratory says 6% of the total amount of fuel consumed in the U.S. — about seven billion gallons, if you can imagine — is used to run the a/c.  The EPA piles on the bad news by reporting that leaky automotive air conditioning units pump 50 million...

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