1. Seattle: They reduced global warming pollution by more than 60 percent by constructin green buildings and operating alternative fuel vehicles.
2. Washington DC: DC has replaced 414 of its polluting diesel buses with buses that burn natural gases.
3. Houston: convert a substantial portion of the city of fleet of cars and trucks.
4. Marion County/Florida: they use gas-electric hybrid vehicles.
5. The city of Scottsdale: has introduced Arizona’s first green building program which helps builders and home owners learn about how to integrate energy efficiency and water saving.
6. Salt Lake City: they changed 861 traffic lights to LED light signals.
7. Colorado: is working to produce 50 percent of the city electricity with renewable energy by 2017.
8. Charlotte: they switched from a gas only Ford Taurus to a hybrid Toyota Prius or Honda Civic and that would save city taxpayers approximately $800-1200 per vehicle including over $400 in annual fuel cost.
9. Twin Falls/ Idaho: Reduce energy cost and cut pollution by increasing the energy efficiency of its 11 schools.
10. St. Paul: they use a system that uses heat drawn from a biomass-fired power plant.
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Those are some very small examples of how the world's largest polluter is making just a token effort. Greedy Americans should get out of their cars and buy bikes, use less air conditioning, and use substantially less power. How about not running all their street lights all night. Most of the country is sound asleep. The never chose to sign Kyoto either. I hope Obama doesn't bail out GM, Ford, and Chrysler - the whole country needs a lesson on using less resources. Meanwhile, they drive cars big enough to tow a block of flats for a short journey that could have used a peddle bike.
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