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Belfer Center Study Concludes Reducing Car and Truck GHG Emissions Will Require Substantially Higher Fuel Prices; Income Tax Credits for Advanced Alt Fuel Vehicles Are Essentially Ineffective at Reducing Sector Emissions

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It also finds that, while relying on subsidies for electric or hybrid vehicles is politically attractive, it is an extremely expensive and ineffective way to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the near term. Purchase tax credits are an expensive way to reduce oil consumption and GHG emissions from transportation.

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Obama gives $2.4bn Jump Start To Battery Makers

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As a receptive audience of engineers and workers cheered his plans, Obama pledged to put a million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015, and highlighted his offer of up to $7,500 in tax credits for Americans who purchase electric vehicles. Tags: EV Economics Obama Energy. The new $2.4-billion

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Calls to convert Pontiac into green brand

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Pontiac could instead be positioned to win green subsidies for the creation of a green muscle car - with the ‘muscle’ firmly referring to performance rather than noise pollution or high emissions. Tags: Green cars Latest news general motors Pontiac Pontiac scrapped. What do you think of this proposal for Pontiac?

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Earlier post.). Costs are also falling due to classic economics.

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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Second, a Congressional Budget Office study issued in April said even with subsidies ethanol is only profitable when a gallon of gasoline costs 70% or more than a bushel of corn, i.e, Because the dairy cows were remarkably clean, very little odor and few pests were to be found. Tags: Ethanol. gallon with corn at $4/bushel.

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One Million and 300 Million

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Here's part of Obama's plan thanks to Politico : Obama calls for 'clean energy' nation By MIKE ALLEN Sen. Barack Obama on Monday called reducing the nation’s energy consumption “the great test of our time” and proposed billions of dollars in subsidies for business and consumers to encourage a “ clean energy “ future. “We

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US Representatives Introduce Bill to Extend Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and Tariff

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Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC), commonly called the blenders’ credit, and the secondary tariff on imported ethanol until 31 December 2015. It would also extend the Small Producers Tax Credit and the Cellulosic Ethanol Production Tax Credit to 1 January 2016. Tags: Brief.