"I'm not just doing this for myself," Wayne said "I'm doing this for my country and the world."Wayne's high mile per gallon driving obsession began as he vowed to minimize his personal consumption of Mideast oil. As he sees it, oil money paid for the construction work that made bin Laden's family rich. "If Osama bin Laden didn't have the money to burn," Wayne says, "he wouldn't have been able to do what he did."
Less consumption of Mideast oil would also make our economy less susceptible to spikes in the price of opec oil, which have triggered U.S. recessions. More than half the gas we pour into our vehicles in America is imported, and we send more than $4 billion a week abroad to buy oil. If we all got a 25 percent improvement in fuel economy (far less than the 50 percent improvement that Wayne and his hypermilers routinely get), we could reduce by half the oil we import from the Mideast for our cars. And then there's global warming.... Please click here to read full
Original news By Dennis Gaffney (motherjones.com)
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