The Ethos Challenge |

After you watch this video, and decide that you want to get even better gas mileage – Give Ethos FR a try. You’ll save more than just 70 cents per gallon – you’ll save the world!

A short article in Spanish, written about Ethos FR (For Earth) in El Mundo Newspaper:

La solución del problema que nos ahorrará cientos de dólares junto a la seguridad que daremos a nuestros hijos sobre el disfrute de un cielo azul libre de contaminantes es el Ethos FR, producto recientemente presentado en la ciudad y que muchas compañías están utilizando.

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Do you own a big sport-utility vehicle or pickup with an average of 14 to 16 miles per gallon in combined city-highway driving? With speculators running up the price of a barrel of oil to the $100 range, Terry Banks says that at $3.50 a gallon, getting change from a Ben Franklin is not likely to happen very often. And on some vehicles, it will cost more than $100 to fill up.

Financial challenges inspired many people to kick off the Holiday shopping and line up in the freezing cold at midnight to save a few dollars on their purchases. Don’t you think they would be interested in saving thousands of dollars without leaving the comfort of their homes? What a wonderful holiday gift.

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Presidential candidate Mike Gravel says that we’re actually paying $7/gallon!

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What does Maxim knows that you don’t? Plenty.
But probably more important to you is what it knows about the sum you’re dropping at the pump every week.

For example, did you know that two thirds of the cost of fuel is pure profit for the Big Oil companies? no?
According to NPR the profits are as followed:

• Exxon Mobil reports quarterly profits of more than $10.3 billion, the second-best quarter ever for a U.S. company. Exxon Mobil’s mark is topped only by the company’s own record, which it set late last year.
• BP and Royal Dutch Shell both reported profits of more than $7 billion.
• Conoco Phillips says it made more than $5 billion in the quarter.
• The total for the five largest oil companies to well above $30 billion.

James Mulva, the CEO of ConocoPhillips objects to Maxim’s data sayin: “Actually, our profit per dollar of revenue for our industry is somewhere in the neighborhood of six to seven, a little more than seven cents, a dollar, which is quite comparable with respect to other industries.”

Personally, I tend to believe NPR.

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Across Burma, thousands of Buddhist monks have been marching in peaceful protest against the military dictatorship. The regime has responded with a violent crackdown against monks and other non-violent protestors. They have beaten and arrested hundreds of people, and reportedly killed at least 200 people.

Avaaz.org is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. Their latest action is against French oil giant Total (which also owns ELF and FINA) and U.S.-based Chevron (which also owns Texaco, Caltex an Unocal) who are supporting the Burmese dictatorship with $450 million a year (generated by the Yadana project)

“Total has become the main supporter of the Burmese military regime.”
– Aung San Suu Kyi
Nobel Peace Prize winner and last elected leader of Burma

Thus Avaaz.org is calling for a global boycott of Total Oil and Chevron/Texaco until they stop fueling the oppressive Burmese regime.

You can see what brands to avoid in your country and take the pledge, here.