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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2018
The federal Clean Air Act and associated environmental regulations have driven steep declines in air pollution emissions over the past several decades, even as US manufacturers increased production, according to a study by two University of California, Berkeley, economists. —Reed Walker.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 5, 2023
Economists have been studying economic growth and seeing it [can] slow down and stagnate in certain countries,” says Russell Funk of Minnesota’s management school, senior author of the Nature paper. A report in this week’s Nature says that the disruptive content of research papers and patents has been dropping for decades.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2019
I think the economists have said it’s sort of a wash because it mainly just took future purchases and accelerated them. New research from a team at Arizona State University shows that even when receiving a big rebate from the government, consumers won’t always behave in expected ways. Three professors in the W. and of the new vehicles, 24.9.
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2009
The oil industry now spans several generations, says Jones, and has historically been as uninterested in how much oil has been drawn as were economists, day-to-day and annual figures being of much greater concern. Even that figure does not add up, Jones explains. cubic metres) and a crude oil density of 0.9 tonnes per cubic metre.
Green Car Congress
MAY 25, 2010
The reason that the climate benefit exceeds 100%, the researchers explain, is the indirect effects obtained through increased recycling of nutrients reducing the need for fertilizers, and the increased recycling of organic matter to the soils. 68% from biodiesel (RME). It is really quite uninteresting to rank different sustainable biofuels.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2012
Those estimates are based on a series of papers by University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University economists Xiaodong Du and Dermot Hayes, who used monthly regional data to estimate the relationship between ethanol production and the pro?t Results from Du/Hayes are indicated by the large square. Source: Knittel and Smith (2012).
Green Car Congress
MAY 30, 2011
Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainable transportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Social influence does matter. Conformity.
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