1000 Green Steps has found too many drivers who always drive like a jerk. Fast, aggressive driving is a big fuel waster. It’s very dangerous to drive like that, both for you (and other people) and for our earth. Try to maintain a constant speed – most cars reach peak efficiency while cruising between 55 and 60 miles per hour – and avoid rapid acceleration and braking, which can increase fuel consumption by as much as 40 percent (and make everyone else on the road hate you).

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1000 Green Steps today is going to distribute some green steps to be done with your transportation corner. First, do you know that keeping your tires inflated will improve your gas mileage by 3 percent. Every gallon you save also saves 20 pounds of C02 emissions. Well, that was news to 1000 Green Steps! From now on, ALWAYS try to make sure that your tires are inflated and save more gas to save our mother earth and save your money

Other suggestion from 1000 Green Steps is to use public transportation whenever possible, carpool, shop locally, and ideally switch to a hybrid or energy-efficient car (if you haven’t already).

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Congress is considering a proposal to give drivers up to $4,500 in vouchers when they turn in old gas-guzzling cars any buy vehicles that get good gas mileage, reports The Detroit News and make that as their green steps.

The so-called “Cash for Clunkers” program is envisioned to run for four years and will encourage the retirement of up to 1million vehicles each year.

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AT&T is expanding its green steps through alternative-fuel fleet to more than 15,000 vehicles by 2019.

The company plans to:

• Replace about 8,000 gasoline-powered vehicles with vehicles powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) over the next five years. This is the largest U.S. corporate commitment to CNG vehicles to date.

• Replace 7,100 passenger cars with alternative-fuel models over the next 10 years.

According to AT&T, the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor, Mich., estimates that over the 10-year deployment period, the new vehicles will save 49 million gallons of gasoline and reduce carbon emissions by 211,000 metric tons. That is equivalent to removing the emissions from more than 38,600 traditional passenger vehicles for a year. What a green step!

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car has added approximately 5,000 hybrid vehicles to its U.S. fleet as their green steps program. These cars, which include several makes and models of the Toyota Prius, Nissan Altima, Ford Escape, and Toyota Camry, can schieve greater fuel economy, use less gasoline, and have lower emissions than traditional vehicles.

The new hybrids will be be available at nearly 80 locations in 24 major markets across the U.S. Enterprise is calling these locations “hybrid branches” to underscore their high concentration of new hybrid cars. Also, for the first time, customers will be able to reserve these hybrids online or by phone.

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UPS has added 300 “green” trucks to its delivery fleets in seven cities in Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma, and California as their green steps. These new trucks are powered by compressed natural gas (CNG).

UPS already operates the largest private fleet of alternative fuel vehicles in its industry. The company’s 1,819 alternative fuel fleet includes vehicles powered by CNG, liquified natural gas, propane, electric and hybrid electric in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Brazil, Chile, Korea, and the United Kingdom.

“Deploying alternative fuel vehicles dates back to the early days of UPS and this CNG deployment is one more step towards the greening of our fleet,” says Robert Hall, UPS’s director of vehicle engineering. “Continuing to add CNG delivery trucks to our fleet is a sustainable choice because natural gas is a cost effective, clean-burning and readily available fuel.” C’mon! Do green steps, UPS!

If you’re like 1000 Green Steps, you must have already known how much the price of petrol has increased. That makes us wonder if there is any way to save petrol, and at the same time to do your green steps. Now that we came to talk about it, there are!

First of your green steps, you should make sure you set aerodynamics for your car, this will increase miles per gallon. Then you can convert the car to burn water – fine tune your old engine as it might use only 20% of energy of petrol and waste the rest in heat, vibration of engine. Add hydrogen to water.

Happy Green Living!