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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. in Connecticut.

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Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

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video] Connecticut and Massachusetts Could Get EV Charging Network Add a comment or question Recommend this post Share/Email Stumble It « Previous post Next post » 34 Comments 1 Emily Post said on April 20th, 2009 at 4:30 am “have reached and agreement&# ?? is a Green Options Media Production.

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

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Reduced Output.

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