Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2016

Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed, according to a new article from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, the article argues that autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Recent trade deals and high-level cooperation between Russia and China have set off alarm bells in the West as policymakers and oil and gas executives watch the balance of power in global energy markets shift to the East. The US dollar then went through a massive devaluation, and oil played a crucial role in propping it back up.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

With its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, one of the mandates of 12-member OPEC is to “ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers, and a fair return on capital for those investing in the petroleum industry.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The direct plasma synthesis of acetic acid from CH 4 and CO 2 is an ideal reaction with 100% atom economy, but is almost impossible by thermal catalysis owing to the significant thermodynamic barrier. selectivity—the highest value reported for acetic acid thus far. natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas).

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

"S ustaining our early twenty-first century global civilization now depends on shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system. It is time for Plan B , time to build a new economy and a new world." The first is a restructuring of the global economy so that it can sustain civilization.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

The alternative scenario assumes that Asia’s fast-growing economies—the PRC, India, Indonesia, and Viet Nam—will fall into the middle income trap of slowing growth rates and stagnating income levels over the next 5 to 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The advantages many companies experienced in the last two decades from “cheap labor” in developing nations are likely to be eroded by the growth and power of the global middle class. High oil prices continue to affect consumer behavior, and concerns about climate change and reliance on oil are likely to increasingly shape policy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy. Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. Earlier post.). Is tax equity dead?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Some national oil companies go bankrupt and others consolidate into a handful of global energy giants.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. The mandating of any system such as this would only be about looking after the interests of ‘middlemen’: oil and gas invested companies who would invariably transition into this market as both supply and/or demand for oil recede. . Tillemann,L.,

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of crude oil, behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia, and its second largest exporter, behind Saudi Arabia. Such an economy could be largely self contained—the technical term is autarkic —as indeed it was during the Soviet era.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Gas turbines are fairly flexible to switch on and off as wind varies, they’re relatively cheap, highly efficient and much lower in emissions than wood, coal or oil. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on. But until 2009, the conventional wisdom was that gas was going to run out soon.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. This basically spelled the end of traditional economy cars on the market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Tennessee found that, over their 40-year history, the standards helped reduce reliance on foreign oil producers, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and saved consumers money.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 25, 2023

liter Coyote V8 gets a few changes – a new dual intake with dual electronic throttle bodies, a steel oil pan, an updated cylinder-head design, and updated cylinder-head gaskets. Fuel economy is listed at 14/23/17 for the manual and 15/24/18 for the automatic. This car isn’t cheap, and that stinks. That changed many moons ago.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

CDM Baby, CDM Ruminations on Vegas and NASCAR California Dreamin' ► February (16) Car Sharing and Saving in a Tough Economy Throwing down the gauntlet to Secretary Clinton Weather Does Not Equal Climate The Hub Lab Seeks Revolutionary New Energy Science. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Oil is the alternative. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Alternative is no longer an alternative. — Bada Bing 9.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. Play Small Biz Tips Brewing community in Oakland A local coffee shop gets off the ground during the worst economy in recent history. Electric cars will be one answer. More Out of work 6 months.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. They are the top of the top,” Mr. Wang told me, when I visited BYD last year.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem?

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2021

If you’re a capitalist economy that we are in society, then you let the product speak for itself, and hopefully, we’ll get that, that’ll be corrected,” Manchin said. And also for oil and gas… Maybe (Tesla’s competitors) need it. I’m literally saying get rid of all subsidies. I don’t know.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

Today’s unemployment and depressed economy are the common cold compared to the cancer we’ve already been diagnosed with. But this half-assed step is world’s better than no step, or more delay while the climate reaches the point of no return.

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