Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Alternative technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles that use oil more efficiently or not at all, continue to advance but they take time to penetrate markets. Reliance grows on a small number of producers: the increase in output from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is over 90% of the required growth in world oil output to 2035.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet 247

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. BYD currently exports gasoline-powered cars to Africa, South America, and the Middle East, but they compete on price, not quality. "Their cars are way behind Toyota, for sure," Sokol admits.

BYD 62

BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244