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[The Oil Drum: New York City] He came out in full support of not only a car-free Central Park all year round, but said that "we need to completely re-think how the city helps move people to and through the city".
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[Peak Oil News] Peak Freaks: Afterwards he said, "There is a big disonance between Amory's kind of chirpy optimism and actual realities on the ground and actual energy trends." Three decades after Lovins unveiled his revolutionary "soft energy path," Komanoff points out, the U.S. uses 25% more oil, burns 75% more coal and generates 35% more greenhouse gases than it did in the mid-1970s. Though a 66 mpg SUV is certainly more desirable than Detroit's current state of the art, Komanoff doesn't believe Lovins' hyper car project provides us with real answers for our global energy and environmental quandry because the project is "only about improving the fuel efficiency of the vehicle and does nothing about addressing the social and whole system efficieny of travel and mobility and community."
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