Discussion: Itoso LLC
Where does it go in the exhaust and how does it work. If it's in an after engine place, it's hard to understand how it would affect gas mileage. Probably good for filtering out... more »
Air is everywhere in Fort Worth’s green agenda. The city is teaming up with neighboring Dallas to alleviate air quality problems in a plan that proposes a 55 percent reduction in pollution from 1999 levels. The plan is an ambitious one, with a call to reduce ozone forming pollutants by nearly 90 tons per day. As part of the Texas Clean School Bus Program, over 230 Fort Worth Independent School District busses have been revamped to reduce emissions. The focus on air doesn’t mean that Fort Worth is forgetting about its water—the city is also working to reduce water consumption by converting recreational fields to turf, saving an estimated 11.5 million gallons of water per year. If that amount sounds staggering, try this one: Fort Worth’s water reuse program saves over three billion gallons of water each year – and the city is looking to expand it.
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Right now the OPEC countries of the Middle East are sitting on something like 3/4s of the proven oil reserves of the planet. That means that the Middle East is the strategic pivot for the entire globe and US geopolitical strategists's seeing the inevitability of the contest for control of the Middle Eastern oil between all of these powers...the Wolfowitzs and the Richard Perles and the Donald Rumsfelds are just determined to get there first with the biggest army, stick the flag in the ground and say, "ok this is ours." That's what it's really all about. —Richard Heinberg
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