Under the new program, owners could increase by $3 per shift the amount they charge drivers for the use of a fuel-efficient vehicle.
Buy a fuel efficient car.Save up to 20,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year using a more fuel efficient car - that's a savings of AUD$10,000 over a car's lifetime.
Profits were boosted by the use of new fuel efficient aircraft and what it called a "remarkable" turnaround at Spanish airline Iberia.
Income from fuel duty was likely to decline due to the growing use of more fuel efficient vehicles, she noted.
Steps include the use of more fuel efficient engines, the use of compost and precision fertilizers, irrigation monitoring, the adoption of no-till farming practices and the use of less-input-dependent crop varieties and animal breeds.
The widespread use of fuel efficient lean burn vehicles is hindered by lack of an adequate technology for NOx reduction.
At the individual level, for instance, a person who uses a sports car with high fuel consumption has a different mainstay from a person who uses a fuel-efficient small car because of his or her environmental worries.
The Toyota Prius, which uses a fuel-efficient blend of gasoline and electric power, is eligible for an additional $2,000 clean vehicle deduction.
The measure, which passed by a comfortable margin of 363 to 60, would encourage the use of alternative fuels, efficient homes and appliances but do little directly to increase production of oil or reduce consumption of gasoline.
An added benefit of an increased gas tax is that it would also encourage the use of more fuel-efficient vehicles statewide and resultantly contribute to less fuel emissions into the environment.
She will even limit the use of her fuel-efficient car, she said: She and her husband, Don J. Melnick, a Columbia University conservation biology professor (they have two young-adult children), have rented a house that is "a 10-minute walk or a five-minute bike ride from the campus".
