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National Fuel's Standards * USA - RIT Professor Will Help to Develop it for Trucks
Henrietta,NY,USA -WXXI, by Peter Iglinski -12 Dec 2008: -- An RIT professor will be helping develop to improve the fuel economy of heavy trucks... James Winebrake -- a professor of science, technology and public policy -- has been named to a special committee of the National Research Council, which provides expert advice to Congress and the President... Winebrake says the US economy is driven by petroleum. He says most of the petroleum is foreign, so government has an interest in reducing the amount of petroleum consumed... According to Winebrake, trucks use 2.5 million barrels of petroleum a day, which represents about ten-percent of the country's total petroleum consumption... He says the committee will look at new technologies that can be used to improve fuel economy, as well as older technologies that the trucking industry may have missed...Labels: fuel standards
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