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President Obama Asks Congress for Carbon Cap Legislation; to Spend $15B per Year on Energy Technologies

Green Car Congress

We invented solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. Well I do not accept a future where the jobs and industries of tomorrow take root beyond our borders—and I know you don’t either. It begins with energy. We should not, and will not, protect them from their own bad practices.

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Electric Car Watch #4: Toyota is the new Kodak

Plug In India

The entire auto industry has given up on investing in Hydrogen cars. For example, the CEO of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, says Japan will run out of electricity if all cars in Japan are EVs. Solar energy costs have fallen by 85% over the last 10 years and by 2030, we will all be energy surplus. That is absolute nonsense.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

There are choices for 110 volt versus 220 volt, slow versus quick charges, and solar options. will become less common over the next 10-years and that a mix of alternative fuel vehicles including electric, biofuel, hydrogen and solar will and is now seeing tremendous market growth. Oh, but theres that nasty carbon based fuel again.

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

News came out on Friday that President Biden is set to quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect the US auto industry from the rapid growth of Chinese EV manufacturing. The global auto industry is in a time of flux. Japan and the 1970s as parable We have, in fact, seen this story before.

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