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04-27-2007, 12:29 PM
"I'm really proud of what we've been able to accomplish and how far we've come in five years." (http://southcityjournal.stltoday.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/sj2tn20070424-0425hil_global.ii1.txt)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Hybrid_driver_raises_global_warming_awareness.jpgShawn Clubb - South City Journal - April 24, 2007
Photo by Shawn Clubb. Jill Miller of the Sierra Club holds a board showcasing a hybrid car tour. The tour was part of Miller's efforts to encourage people to take steps to reduce global warming.
Toyota Prius, check. Ford Escape, check. Mercury Mariner, check. Jill Miller has driven them all.
Promoting hybrids and other cars that reduce gasoline use are part of her business. She has even driven legs of nationwide hybrid car tours.
Along the way, she has talked to schoolchildren, farmers, Sierra Club members and cowboys. She came out of a business in a Texas town along Route 66 to find two cowboys staring at the red Prius she was driving and wondering, "What is this?"
"People loved it. They were fascinated," Miller said.
The hybrid car tours were part of Miller's job for the past five years as a conservation organizer on the Global Warming and Energy Program for the Sierra Club. Miller, 38, of the Tower Grove South neighborhood, has worked out of the Sierra Club office in Maplewood. On Friday, she ended her position there and she looks to move on to work for another not-for-profit group.
Miller recently reflected on the past five years and how global warming has increased in the public awareness. Her main campaign goal has been advocating for automakers to build cars and trucks that attain better gas mileage.
"Making all new vehicles go farther on a gallon of gasoline is the single biggest step we can take to reduce our oil dependence, save drivers money and curb global warming," Miller said.
The issue is not about individual decisions that people make, she said, but about convincing automakers to act and convincing legislators to raise fuel economy standards. Average fuel economy under federal law is set at 22.7 miles per gallon for light trucks and SUVs and 27.5 miles per gallon for cars. The standards were established in 1975 and haven't been significantly changed since then, Miller said … http://southcityjournal.stltoday.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/sj2tn20070424-0425hil_global.ii1.txt
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Hybrid_driver_raises_global_warming_awareness.jpgShawn Clubb - South City Journal - April 24, 2007
Photo by Shawn Clubb. Jill Miller of the Sierra Club holds a board showcasing a hybrid car tour. The tour was part of Miller's efforts to encourage people to take steps to reduce global warming.
Toyota Prius, check. Ford Escape, check. Mercury Mariner, check. Jill Miller has driven them all.
Promoting hybrids and other cars that reduce gasoline use are part of her business. She has even driven legs of nationwide hybrid car tours.
Along the way, she has talked to schoolchildren, farmers, Sierra Club members and cowboys. She came out of a business in a Texas town along Route 66 to find two cowboys staring at the red Prius she was driving and wondering, "What is this?"
"People loved it. They were fascinated," Miller said.
The hybrid car tours were part of Miller's job for the past five years as a conservation organizer on the Global Warming and Energy Program for the Sierra Club. Miller, 38, of the Tower Grove South neighborhood, has worked out of the Sierra Club office in Maplewood. On Friday, she ended her position there and she looks to move on to work for another not-for-profit group.
Miller recently reflected on the past five years and how global warming has increased in the public awareness. Her main campaign goal has been advocating for automakers to build cars and trucks that attain better gas mileage.
"Making all new vehicles go farther on a gallon of gasoline is the single biggest step we can take to reduce our oil dependence, save drivers money and curb global warming," Miller said.
The issue is not about individual decisions that people make, she said, but about convincing automakers to act and convincing legislators to raise fuel economy standards. Average fuel economy under federal law is set at 22.7 miles per gallon for light trucks and SUVs and 27.5 miles per gallon for cars. The standards were established in 1975 and haven't been significantly changed since then, Miller said … http://southcityjournal.stltoday.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/sj2tn20070424-0425hil_global.ii1.txt