At CERA Week 2007, most life was carbon-based. High and volatile gas and gasoline prices, concerns about global warming and the long-term adequacy and security of energy supplies, and the behind-the-scenes geopolitical maneuverings that shape today global energy environment have become front-page news. Congress. Power Magazine. MORE >>

Here's Jack Rosebro's report in Green Car Congress. In addition, while the plug-in hybrid's business-as-usual GHG emissions do not project a significant benefit, they offer a continuous path for incremental improvement through decreased carbonization of the power sector--an opportunity that does not exist for the hybrid vehicle.At MORE >>

" A shift to plug-in cars could also help the development of renewable power, all the more important since a proliferation of electric cars would alter the national pattern of carbon emissions -- the utility sector would take on the emissions that once belonged oil-based transport. Because they're so informative. "This is ours." MORE >>

" Judging from today's news reports, it appears Congress (especially but not only Republicans) may be insufficiently receptive to steps to keep the Detroit Three alive. We hope that this turns out to be brinkmanship and that Congress will in fact act next week. Developments in Washington have become "fast and furious." MORE >>