The leaps and bounds in clean, distributed generation have reduced costs, raised efficiency and demonstrated increasingly high levels of reliability.
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Maybe if politicians had raised efficiency standards sooner, they would not be out on the stump talking about a crisis now.
And when you couple it with the fact that for the first time in 30 years we've not only raised fuel efficiency standards but we actually were able to get the entire industry to agree voluntarily to double fuel efficiency standards by the biggest environmental step we've made in the last 30 years on that front.
After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel-efficiency standards so that by the middle of the next decade, your cars and trucks will get twice -- will go twice as far on a gallon of gas.
And we now have across the country people working in factories making advanced batteries that are going into American-made cars, because what we also did at the same time was we raised fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks for the first time in 30 years.
But many state and local governments and some federal agencies have been able to work around these constraints and have improved efficiency and raised service quality.
Making small, light, efficient, cheap cars is hard, and harder as the standard for lightness, smallness, efficiency, and economy is raised.
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Fundraising efficiency shows the percentage of funds raised from gifts that remains after subtracting fundraising expenses.
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But the commission's ire was raised not so much by the lack of efficiency as by the outrageous cost of the transfers.
First, it raised average productivity by 11% through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory.
And after decades in which we have done little to increase the efficiency of cars and trucks, we've raised fuel economy standards to reduce our dependence on foreign oil while helping folks save money at the pump.
Many of them have to us unacceptable fund-raising efficiency ratios (spending more than 30% of the money raised in raising the money).
On a return trip to Rwanda last week, we saw ample evidence in Kigali: a new and fully-leased 20-story skyscraper, tower cranes that punctuate the skyline, and shiny metal roofs in rural areas that attest to growing household income. (Rwanda raised one million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2011.) Agricultural cooperatives improve efficiency and productivity.
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