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GM does a lot of "little cost cutting measures" to reduce energy consumption, many that most people never "connect the dots" as intentional for energy conservation. As an example, the "squarish wheelwells" in both the Chevy and the GMC trucks saves about 5 pounds of steel in each truck. Doesn't seem like much on a 7,000 truck, but when you sell 1.3 million pickups a year, that 5 pounds adds up to over 6 million pounds of steel saved annually. Then, when you consider not using the gas to push that 6 million pounds down the highway, that's also a lot of gas saved each year.
The little things, many that we never see, all add up to some pretty substantial energy savings....
My Grandpa had a unique way of putting things like this. When we were shelling butterbeans and there was an endless supply left to shell, if we dropped a bean or left one in the shell, he'd remind us that even though that single butterbean didn't seem like much, a spoonful or fork full of them made a pretty tasty mouthful of good "Grandma's cooking"....
I sort of "stole his thought" and when my kids or grandkids are discussing "saving the little things", I'll often say to them, "You eat butterbeans, don't you?"...
GM, like Grandpa, puts a lot of thought into the "little things that add up to bigger things"....
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John
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