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$7.00 gas only way to curb global warming emissions?
Harvard's eye-popping study To reach President Obama's global warming emission's cuts, according to a new Harvard study , gas prices will have to reach $7.00 per gallon. Sadly, tax credits for hybrid cars and EVs were not seen as an effective path towards reducing emissions, as such tax credits can actually make people drive more according to the soon-to-be-released study. However, if actions are not taken,
Hybrid Car Blog
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010
US House members attempt to block greenhouse gas regulation
Tags: Global warming Green credentials Latest news Clean Air Act climate change Congressional Review Act of 1996 Congressman Collin Peterson Congressman Ike Skelton Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson Environmental Protection Agency EPA greenhouse gas emissions greenhouse gases threaten human health joint resolution National Highway Traffic Safety Administration President Barack Obam The issue over the truth behind global warming, climate change and the impact of greenhouse gases just won’t subside in America where US House Members have issued a joint resolution to nullify the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding in December 2009 that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health and could be regulated under the [...]
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Green Cars News
- Sunday, February 28, 2010
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Obama announces huge investment in SmartGrid
US President Barack Obama has announced $3.4billion in grant awards to fund a broad range of smart grid technologies and projects.
Tags: Green cars Hybrid cars Latest news American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Barack Obama plug-in hybrid electric vehicles SmartGrid SmartGrid investment US President Barack Obam Part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the awards will be matched by industry funding for a total investment worth more than $8billion. Among the major elements of the announcement were:
- The empowering of consumers to save energy and cut utility
Green Cars News
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Tesla, Ford and Nissan win big with DOE grants
Tags: EV Economics Inside Track Obama Energy Ford Nissan Tesl We’ve been waiting for several months to hear this good news. Three EV pioneers, Tesla, Nissan and Ford, are receiving loans from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. Totaling $8 billion, the funds will be used to manufacture efficient vehicles and electric drive components.
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Candidate PHEV Race: Obama's Expanded Commitment: $7,000 Incentives, Federal Fleet by 2012
Previously, Senator Obama had included PHEVs in his $150 billion 10-year package. Obama at Michigan State University in Lansing Michigan. The campaign also includes links to a new organization, CleanTech for Obama http://www.cleantechforobama.com . (We REMARKS OF SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (as prepared for delivery)
"New We've been tracking the increasingly direct and lively race between the candidates on policies for plug-in cars, at the CalCars-News Archive http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html
Previously, McCain had proposed a $5,000 tax credit and
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Monday, August 4, 2008
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Obama Announces $3.4B Investment in Smart Grid Technologies and Projects
Click to enlarge. Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama announced $3.4 Map of the 100 smart grid awards. Source: DOE. billion in grant awards to 100 private companies, utilities, manufacturers, cities and other partners—the largest single energy grid modernization investment in US history—to fund a broad range of smart
Green Car Congress
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Obama's Briefing; Sandalow To DOE; Automaker News; Nat'l Wildlife Federation Embraces PHEVs
PRESIDENT AT POMONA: EVWorld does a great job reporting on President Obama's trip last week to Southern California Edison's Electric Vehicle Technology Center in Pomona, CA. This story, "Plugging In America's President," SCE's Ed Kjaer explains to EVWorld Editor about the four-part briefing the President received: a "Garage of Tomorrow" showing how everything can be smart: grid, home, appliances, meters and consumption; energy storage (the one that the President asked the most questions about); vehicles (including a Ford Escape PHEV that Obama would prefer to his hybrid
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Friday, March 27, 2009
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Obama announces $2.4 billion for EV projects
President Obama today announced $2.4 Tags: electric vehicles president obam billion for battery and electric car manufacturing and deployment efforts. Green Car Congress has the full rundown of recipients. Congratulations to San Francisco City College for the $500,000 it will receive for educational programs for secondary students; service personnel, and technicians in partnership with Chabot College; Central Shops; Pat’s Garage;
Plugs and Cars
- Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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Obama gives $2.4bn Jump Start To Battery Makers
President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015.
Obama At A Town Hall Meeting in Los Angeles, California - March 19, 2009. Here’s During a visit to Southern California Edison’s Pomona EV test facility, he launched a $2.4 billion competitive grant program for US battery makers.
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Obama on cars
Today Barak Obama appeared on Meet the Press. (full OBAMA: Well, you know, I, I think that if we decided right now that we were going to make the kind of investment I've proposed--$150 billion over 10 years--then I think at the end of the decade we could have a auto industry that has significantly reduced our consumption of oil by as much as 35, 40 percent. Tags: barak obama Plug-in Hybrids battery electric ca full transcript here .) MR.
Plugs and Cars
- Sunday, May 4, 2008
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President Obama Establishes Biofuels Interagency Working Group; Push on Biofuel Development/Commercialization and Flex-Fuel Vehicle Use
US President Barack Obama has established a Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to further the research, development and commercialization of biofuels.
President Obama directed Secretary Vilsack to expedite and increase production of and investment in biofuel development efforts by refinancing existing investments in renewable fuels to preserve jobs in ethanol and biodiesel plants, renewable electricity generation plants, and other supporting industries;
Green Car Congress
- Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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Obama Outlines Next Steps for GM and Chrysler
In a statement livecast on the Internet by the White House, President Barack Obama said that neither of the restructuring plans submitted by GM and Chrysler “ goes far enough to warrant substantial new investment. ”
What we are interested in is giving GM an opportunity to make changes. —President Obama
If they and stakeholders are unable to In his short address, the President confirmed details that had emerged over the weekend about the next steps for the two auto makers. The government will provide GM with “ adequate working capital ” for 60 more days to “ produce
Green Car Congress
- Monday, March 30, 2009
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