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Thursday, July 20, 2006

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So if you're tired of spending money at the pump, we have a series of stories for you about ways that people are beating the gas price crunch.

Sharing a Car
In Ohio City, we've found a company that allows you and about 50 of your friends to share a car. Imagine: no insurance payments, no gasoline fill-ups, no condo fees for having your own parking space. Cleveland is actually one of less than two dozen cities where the idea of sharing cars is working. We'll introduce you to the man who brought it to town.

City Wheels Cleveland

Used Grease as Fuel
In Oberlin, a young man with a dream is turning diesel cars into vegetable oil burners. A process to convert cars to run on used grease is catching on, and as we revisit a story previously covered, we find success is catching up to the folks at Full Circle Fuels. Got a VW or a Mercedes you want to convert? These are the guys!

Full Circle Fuels

No More Gas Car
Imagine if a car could take you to and from work and on errands for only two cents a mile, without you ever paying for gas again! Such a car actually exists. It's electric and it's handmade right here in Northeast Ohio. We'll examine the advantages and limitations of this NMG, or No More Gas car, and analyze the emerging market for very small extremely efficient automobiles.

Myers Motors
Other electric cars on the market: Think; Tesla Motors; Commuter Cars

Generation Next Road Trip
It's roadtrip season - but that isn't the reason a PBS RV hit the highway recently. No, this bus is on the road to unravel a generation. The Jim Lehrer Newshour team has loaded up a bus, traveling from coast to coast to talk to 16-25 year olds, to find out what it is that makes their generation tick - how they feel about technology, debt, gay rights. Here's a hint, it's not how their parents felt. Veteran CNN and PBS journalist Judy Woodruff leads the Generation Next project. She's talked to young people in indie rock clubs, poetry slams and recently spent some time here in Ohio. She'll join us on this week's Ideas.

Generation Next

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