NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED TO CUT OUR OIL DEPENDENCE

ON APRIL 2nd, TELL FORD MOTOR COMPANY TO HELP

In these times, this is a way for everyone to help make the world a safer,
more sustainable place.  Making our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon
of gas is the biggest single step to cutting our crippling dependence on
oil and curbing global warming.  Now more than ever we need to implement
the solutions and technology that exist today to start saving oil and
saving lives.

Ford and the other automakers have the technology to make all new cars,
SUVs, and pickup trucks average 40 miles per gallon.  Taking this step
would save nearly 2 million barrels of oil per day - more oil than we
currently import from the entire Persian Gulf and could ever extract from
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, combined.  Improving fuel economy to
40 MPG would also save close to 400 million tons of global warming
pollution.  But Ford and the other U.S. automakers have kept this
fuel-saving technology on the shelf, when they should be putting it on the
road in all of their vehicles.  It is time to tell Ford Motor Company to do
its part to cut America's reliance on oil by boosting fuel economy to 40
miles per gallon.

                         TAKE ACTION ON APRIL 2nd

·  Call Ford and tell them to raise fuel economy
   Dial 1-800-392-3673, press 3, and at the next prompt press either 1 or
   2.  When a customer service representative comes on the phone, tell them
   that Ford needs to use existing technology to raise the average fuel
   economy of all their new cars, pickups, and SUVs to 40 miles per gallon.
   Taking this step would cut our reliance on oil and curb global warming.

·  Send an email to top Ford executives ? all in the click of a button
   Go to www.sierraclub.org/fordaction and follow the directions to send an
   email.  Let Ford's top executives know that their customers deserve
   vehicles that use existing technology to go farther on a gallon of gas.



Erin E. Jordahl
Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-277-8868
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www.iowa.sierraclub.org

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