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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. The missing piece we dream President Obama will follow up with is an emergency-response roadmap to a world where increasingly scarce and costly oil is used only when needed.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Will Congress finally approve consumer-oriented legislation that has stalled for years? More Hired by Uncle Sam After serving his country, Jon Leitzinger was hired by the Federal Aviation Administration. Now buyers, like the Lamuses, are venturing back.

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Assessment of US CAFE fuel economy standards finds big savings on fuel and emissions since inception

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The Rhodium Group, an independent research organization unaffiliated with the study, estimates that the policy change would achieve only one-fifth of greenhouse gas reductions that the Obama-era policy would achieve. Gas prices were cheap and gas-guzzling vehicles hit the road in mass numbers.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Early Days in the Obama Administration An Address I'd Like to Hear Global Warming Solutions Included in Transportatio. And yes, buy cheap (night) sell high (day) and sell local (remember there are HUGE line losses in the common interstate grids- more so in daytime high power draw hours. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. The only question is a carbon TAX the kind of change Obama believes in. Based on his campaign rhetoric and what comes out of The White House so far it seems unlikely.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The Cantwell-Collins plan is almost exactly what Mr. Obama proposed in the campaign and after first taking office–a 100 percent auction of permits and a large tax rebate to the public. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) CONCLUSION.

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