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Obama outlines plans for greener US

Green Cars News

President Barack Obama called on Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars currently give to oil companies and support record investment into renewable energy and electric cars as part of his State of the Union address yesterday.

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Plug-in Hybrid Bills in Congress Scare Auto Makers

Plugs and Cars

The Detroit News Autos Insider column today is reporting on Congressional efforts to promote plug-in hybrids and the backlash from the automakers. Toyota made the car, the Prius, that made plug-in conversions possible, and now they are trying to rein in the desires unleashed. Whatever it's called, it's got Toyota in a tizzy.

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

Chris Paine’s film “ Who Killed the Electric Car ? He sent the story to KFWB News 980 and to President-elect Barack Obama. Congress should not, under any circumstances, release the bailout money to automobile manufacturers without making these demands. This dependency must end now!

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Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

Creative Greenius

Because what’s bad news for the legacy “Burn To Earn&# industries who are responsible for overheating our planet is exactly the great news that our new, renewable and sustainable business model needs to take off like a rocket and change our world for the better economically and environmentally.

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Will it be a slow road for green cars?

Green Cars News

The 2009 World Congress of the Society of Automotive Engineers closed its doors yesterday after a highly publicised event that featured an appearance from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and trumpeted the “race to green mobility&#. Questions too were raised about electric cars’ ability to solve environmental problems.

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U.S. Battery Makers Power Up

Revenge of the Electric Car

A coalition of 14 companies this week announced the creation of a new business alliance aimed at promoting domestic production of lithium ion batteries. Automakers hope to use the batteries in next- generation hybrids as well as plug-in electric cars. Tags: EV News Production News Inside Track.

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BREAKING NEWS: Hermosa Beach To Become Carbon Neutral City! Acting Locally, Thinking Globally

Creative Greenius

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone. 1 city headed for carbon neutral, 87 more to go.