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Physicists: US Could Cut Oil Use With Better Houses, Cars

This is the San Francisco Sunset Idea House for 2007, and it's one of the first LEED Certified residential remodeled homes in the nation. Don't worry, it costs just over $1 million. Despite the outrageous price-tag of this model house, most efficiency improvements would see dramatic price shifts if the federal government would make technology research and green policies a priority.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. can reduce its dependence on foreign oil and greenhouse-gas emissions by making cars and buildings much more energy efficient, according to a study released Tuesday by a large national association of physicists.

The 46,000-member American Physical Society argues the need for action is urgent because the energy crisis is the worst in U.S. history. It also says that the physics and chemistry behind the human causes of climate change - such as heat-trapping pollution from the burning of fossil fuels - is "well understood and beyond dispute."

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