Technology alone won't solve our energy problems; we also need to moderate our driving habits. Photo by Holly Clark.

Lee Schipper, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley:

One of EPA’s vital services is testing and certifying various products. When I started EMBARQ, the WRI Center for Sustainable Transport I was besieged by emails about snake-oil cures for engine emissions and poor fuel economy.

In the past few months Chinese officials have announced plans to impose stringent, new fuel-economy standards on cars and trucks produced in their country. The standards are expected to be tougher than those in the United States.

Developing cars powered by hydrogen will be an effective way to relieve China's gas pollution problems, experts say.

America’s landscape of scattered suburbs and devoted commuters make it difficult to encourage mass transit on a nationwide scale. It typically takes 25 to 50 years to create a successful public transportation system, but few cities have started down tha

EMBARQ's China Motorization study focuses on automobile technology, alternative fuel, and mobility choices that are available to China, as well as policy measures that could be adopted to reduce the transport burden on oil use and greenhouse gas emissions

The differences in car use, public transportation use, fuel economy, and fuel costs between the United States and Europe mean that Americans are more susceptible to oil price hikes.

China surge in oil consumption is fueled by a booming economy. The transportation and energy sectors are particularly high users of oil, and Beijing has been forced to increase its dependency on imports as a result.