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New bumper sticker - iDrive 55 |
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Action almost everyone can do now |
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In response to the following email we are pleased to announce several new bumper stickers you can ORDER HERE.
 Drive 55 Conservation Project bumperstickers
Dear Folks,
Last week I sent this letter out to a number of conservation organizations, and also to Yes! magazine. They asked me for a reference and I couldn't find it, so I googled "55 speed limit mideast oil" and BINGO! "You've been doing this for a while. Why hasn't it caught on?" I suggest a new bumpersticker :
55 FOR PEACE
55 FOR POLAR BEARS
55 TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING, etc.
Text of my earlier letter:
Here’s an action almost everyone can do immediately that will reduce global warming. DRIVE SLOWER.
I read in a recent Sierra Club magazine that if the whole country went back to the 55mph speed limit (as we did in the first oil crisis back in the 70s) it would save the amount of oil we import from the Persian Gulf. We don't have to wait for the Government, we can drive 55 right now. How about some sort of campaign: Drive 55, keep the earth alive! or 55 for polar bears! 55 for peace! People could display a bumper sticker, so we'd know who we are as we drive down the highway.
I'm already doing it. I’ve been doing it for 3 years, since I bought my Honda Hybrid. It has a clever LED readout of my average mileage, so I tested it on the highway, and at 55mph my car gets 55mpg. At 60 it drops to about 52, at 65 it’s down to about 47. It’s true, it does require some sacrifice. It takes longer to get places. But you know what? It doesn’t take that much longer. Every time the needle creeps up to 60 I remember polar bears and slow down. It makes me feel good.
A lot of different groups could suggest their members do this: environmental groups, peace groups - almost every problem we are struggling with could be helped by slowing down.
Thanks,
Jenny Deupree
in Franconia, NH
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Thank you Jenny, and also all the others who have sent email and encouragement. This new website is for you. Our goal: One Million Drive 55 bumperstickers!
Tim
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A recent report says the average car payment has jumped to $514(1) per month, or $6,168 per year, much of which is interest, on a rapidly depreciating asset. |
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How you can help the Drive 55 Conservation Project |
Here is the plan to spread our message, promote and fund the project: we need YOU to take the lead in your community and buy a dozen stickers. Keep two for your own vehicles and give away (or sell) the other ten. This will cost about $50, plus tax & shipping, and will accomplish three immediate benefits.
- Putting stickers on your own vehicles will help alter your driving habits, who wants to be a hypocrite, right?
- Stickers on your vehicles will help spread the message to other drivers while putting speeders on notice of your intention.
- One dollar for each sticker sold goes to support the project with more promotion and lobbying efforts, so even if you don't get a dozen, every little bit helps!
We are also working to have a large corporation, such as an insurance company or member of the oil industry, pay to print and distribute 1 million of our bumper stickers and we could give them away. Perhaps this will happen too, but in the meantime we are fortunate to have www.CafePress.com/peacetrain and they do swell job of on demand fulfillment. So if you want to do something now, please do visit the CafePress site soon and join us as a leader in your community.
Tim Castleman
Drive 55 Conservation Project |
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Drive 55 KTLK Radio Interview |
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October 31 radio interview with Marc Germain on Los Angeles radio station KTLK 1150AM. Click Read More to listen. |
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Ideas to reduce GHG emmissions submitted to CARB |
In response to the California Air Resources Board solicitation for ideas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, October 1, 2007 the Drive 55 Conservation Project submitted these three pdf files offering our ideas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The files are named as follows:
Sept_2007_reduce_GHG.pdf (application/pdf) 88kb
Drive 55 Conservation Project Action Plan.pdf (application/pdf) 121kb
Emissions Impact of Elimination of the National 55 mph Speed Limit.pdf (application/pdf) 101kb
View all the submissions here.
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We need your help to contact these organizations, urging them to endorse the Drive 55 Conservation Project. Please look over the list below, and if you find you are a member or supporter of any of them, take a few minutes to send a letter or e-mail asking them to endorse the Drive 55 Conservation Project. If they hear from you it will help them to have confidence there is public support and encourage their endorsement.
Thank you in advance for your care and concern for this fragile environment we all share. |
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