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  <title>Green Options &#187; Queen Elizabeth II</title>
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    <title>British Queen Elizabeth II Converts $15 Million Bentleys to Biofuel</title>
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    <dc:creator>Jennifer Lance</dc:creator>
    
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    <description><![CDATA[<h3><a href="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/gas2/files/2009/01/queenbentley.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1526" src="http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/gas2/files/2009/01/queenbentley.jpg" alt="The Queen converts her Bentleys to biofuels" /></a></h3>

<h3>The British Queen Elizabeth II has two state Bentleys, which according to the <a href="http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/findacar.htm" target="_blank">US Department of Energy gets nine MPG in the city and uses 31.1 barrels of petroleum a year</a>. These royal $15 million gas guzzlers are being converted to bio-ethanol.</h3>
<p>According to<a href="http://jalopnik.com/5122208/queen-converts-bentleys-to-biofuels" target="_blank"> Jalopnik</a><a href="http://jalopnik.com/5122208/queen-converts-bentleys-to-biofuels" target="_blank">, the Queen is preempting Bentley&#8217;s move to biofuels</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Queen Elizabeth the II, who lives rent free in several state-owned mansions and castles — the poorly insulated kind that are a bitch to heat in the winter — travels by a state-owned private jet and requires a security detail that uses many fossil fuel powered cars, trucks, motorcycles and helicopters, has decided to do her bit for the environment. <strong>The biofuel conversion is estimated to increase the fuel economy of her two, scarcely used, Bentleys by a staggering 40%. </strong>How? By burning some of her tiny island nation’s food supply in place of gasoline. Bentley is expected to introduce a similar system for its range of luxury cars by 2012, allowing similarly well-heeled individuals to feel better about themselves while dining on imported fine foodstuffs.</p></blockquote>
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    <title>Green Gossip: Angelina Jolie Vs. the Big Mac, Live Earth, Orlando and the Queen</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Noelle dEstries</dc:creator>
    
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    <description><![CDATA[<p> <img src="/files/images/snipshot_d413nu0uu78n.img_assist_custom.jpg" border="0" width="155" height="201" />I have to admit, there&#39;s nothing like a delicious and nutritious organic meal. I feel superhuman after, as if my brain works better and my body royally thanks me with a surreal glow. However, the first few bites of a McDonald&#39;s cheeseburger is beyond mouthwatering and utterly satisfying. </p>
<p>Sure I may feel ill the second I&#39;ve finished, but whether you&#39;re hung-over after a night of organic red wine, or simply want the toy in the Happy Meal – a little McyD’s never hurt. </p>
<p>They must put some crazy chemicals in their buns, even <strong>Angelina Jolie</strong> has trouble passing one up. At her <em>Marie Claire</em> photo shoot Angelina was served a luscious organic orgy of a meal, in respect for her environmental awareness –  and she didn’t touch it. She sent her assistant across the street for a <a href="http://blog.cleveland.com/entertainment/2007/04/afternoon_buzz_26.html">Big Mac</a>. With all respect to our green ways, I suppose we can give her a break. I oddly respect her for that.</p>
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<p><!--break--> <a href="http://www.liveearth.org/"><img src="/files/images/snipshot_d41ki6lb5cko.img_assist_custom.jpg" border="0" width="131" height="131" />Live Earth</a> ticket prices were released on <a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00003E8BCF1EDA59?artistid=1119357&#38;majorcatid=10001&#38;minorcatid=1">Ticketmaster</a>,  prices range from a mere $53 to an astounding $348, for what appears to be the biggest-party-ever held this July 7th. </p>
<blockquote><p>&#34;Live Earth will use the global reach of music to engage people on a mass scale to combat our climate crisis. Live Earth will bring together more than 150 of the world&#39;s top musicians for 24-hours of music from 7 concerts across all 7 continents. Live Earth will bring together an audience of more than 2 billion at the concerts and through television, radio, film, and the Internet&#8230;led by <strong>Vice President Al Gore</strong>. Kevin Wall, Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8, is producing Live Earth.&#34;</p>
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<p><img src="/files/images/snipshot_d41k5bc5l81t.img_assist_custom.jpg" border="0" width="95" height="137" />Check out the list rocking out in London: </p>
<blockquote><p>BEASTIE BOYS, BLACK EYED PEAS, BLOC PARTY, CORINNE BAILEY RAE, DAMIEN RICE, DAVID GRAY, DURAN DURAN, FOO FIGHTERS, GENESIS, JAMES BLUNT, JOHN LEGEND, KEANE, <strong>MADONNA</strong>, PAOLO NUTINI, RAZORLIGHT, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SNOW PATROL. </p>
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<p><img src="/files/images/snipshot_d4k8wxdj8n3.img_assist_custom.jpg" border="0" width="115" height="144" /><strong>Queen Elizabeth II</strong> is ordering an environmental, first-ever audit of carbon emissions from her three official residences. According to the <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1889117.htm">article</a>: <em>Green measures already taken by the palace include converting all vehicles of state used by the Queen - plus a London taxi driven by her husband Prince Philip - to run on LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). </em>However, this is the first time an official environmental audit has taken place. The results will not be made public.</p>
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<p><img src="/files/images/snipshot_d41ff7axexe4.img_assist_custom.jpg" border="0" width="116" height="160" /><strong>Orlando Bloom</strong> is featured on the cover of <a href="http://popsugar.com/205324">Elle&#39;s May “green issue”</a> and he had some very refreshing things to say in his interview, aside from women and films. On speaking of his environmental activism, Bloom humbly replies, “I’m really not an expert on environmental matters,” Bloom says. “But I’m very passionate about the environment. And the more I learn about it, the more I realize that there are little things that everyone can do.’ For example, this week governor <a href="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/schwarzenegger-pledges-make-green-movement-sexy-$1075767.htm">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> suggests we bring sexy into Green. &#34;We have to make it mainstream. We have to make it sexy. We have to make it attractive so that everyone wants to participate,&#34; I think we all can do that.</p>
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