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The United States consumes 106 barrels of oil every second - and 65 percent of all oil is used for transportation.
How to Drive Clean
 
The concept of driving a clean technology vehicle to some people may sound a bit "granola" at first. But with the technological advancements and substantial market interest in recent years, auto manufacturers are offering a very large variety of clean technology vehicle makes and models that provide the same power, style, luxury and features as traditional gasoline vehicles. Not only can car buyers easily find a vehicle model that suits their lifestyle, but clean technology vehicles often offer more – better warranties, greater efficiency, and can help solve the serious air pollution, global warming, and energy security problems facing California.
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Californians drive 825 million miles every day – producing 5.4 million tons of smog forming pollutants daily. Since more than 50% of California's total smog pollution and 60% greenhouse gas pollution comes from motor vehicles - your car is a good place to start cleaning things up.

If that’s not bad enough, more than 95% of Californians live in areas that fail to meet federal or state air quality standards - a rapidly increasing health hazard to you, your children, their children, and so on. Also, impacts of global warming are already being felt in California. Sure, all new cars are cleaner than they used to be, but there are a lot more of them on the road today driving more miles than ever. So our pollution problem continues to worsen. It's simple – we have to drive less or we have to drive cleaner if we want to solve our pollution problem.

There are many clean technology vehicles available today that can fit your lifestyle. The DriveClean vehicle search is a great tool for finding the cleanest cars on the road. The new Environmental Performance Label will also help you find the cleanest cars on the dealership lot. Starting in 2009 the Environmental Performance label will be required on all new cars, providing a smog score and global warming score on a scale of 1 – 10 (10 being the cleanest) for every new vehicle in California. Look for the Environmental Performance label and protect the Environment, choose vehicles with higher scores.

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