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US Congressman’s Energy Bill amendment will “spur bike use”

August 1st, 2005 by Mike

Via: BikeBiz.com

Pro-bicycling Earl Blumenauer, the democrat Congressman from Oregon, has succeeded in getting his ‘Conserve By Bike’ provision included in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Conserve By Bike will be a programme run by the US Department of Transportation and will see the creation of ten pilot projects across the US designed to conserve energy resources by providing education and marketing tools to convert car trips to bike trips.

“Bicycling is one of the cleanest, healthiest, most efficient and environmentally friendly modes of transportation that exist today,” Blumenauer said in support of his amendment.

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It is cool to see support like this for bicycling of any kind.


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