Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

An all-in approach is imperative if we hope to reduce our reliance on foreign oil and create a more diverse electricity generation portfolio. The council recommended: Allowing more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands. America must do likewise.

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Renewable Energy Fuel Coal 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The investment consists of an initial investment and additional purchases of CRI equity over a 3-year period. Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar). million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Methanol in China.

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In addition, the President has directed his Administration to purchase cleaner alternatives to HFCs whenever feasible and transition over time to equipment that uses safer and more sustainable alternatives. Going forward, the Administration will continue to use these bilateral and multilateral efforts to promote advanced coal technologies.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. For combustion-based heating, fuels like oil and gas are stored and moved to where they can be burned.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. However, building more coal and gas power plants to make miles for transport is counter-productive if the game plan is to reduce carbon output. Consider the venerable oil drilling donkey, which cycles once every 7 or 8 seconds.

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Solar Miles Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

We can remain one of the world’s leading importers of foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy.&# “So we have a choice to make. The new $2.4-billion

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. billion for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles and $1.71 carbon sequestration (capture and storage, i.e.). borders. . $3

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Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Industrial Industry 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. Dr. Paul still sees significant growth in the developing world. Earlier post.). One year ago.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

One key issue that the Waxman-Markey discussion draft does not address is how to allocate the tradable emission allowances that restrict the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities, oil companies, and other sources. Federal Purchases of Renewable Electricity. The draft establishes a Renewable Portfolio Standard—i.e.,

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

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. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Reduced Output.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244

Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar.

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Chinese Companies Electric Cars BYD 28

Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

From April 2010 the new 13 bands will be further separated out to strengthen the environmental message and first-year rates of VED* will be introduced to further persuade new vehicle purchasers to choose lower emitting, more fuel efficient cars. From the second year of purchase onwards they will then pay the standard rate.

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Sustainable Transportation 2009 Transportation Tax 39

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Governor Kulongoski is currently pushing a plan before the state legislature to cut some hefty tax breaks for electric vehicle manufacturers who choose to come to Oregon, as well as provide huge tax credits to purchasers of electric cars. “My Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It reduces the overall cost of the batteries to purchase more at a single time (car companies from battery companies). More importantly, rather than coal or other unsustainable energy sources, if wind, solar, geothermal and tidal energy become more of the energy portfolio, the vehicles are fully zero emission and oil free!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies" GM "killed" that experiment because it wasnt even CLOSE to being cost effective. It is 12 years later. GM would only lease them.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. Electric cars will be one answer. More Out of work 6 months.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

America needs much smaller cars for many more people so that we can escape the clutches of the loathsome oil interests. Reply to this comment by rossocorrecto April 7, 2009 6:23 AM PDT There are already efficient 2 wheeled transports that are available for purchase today at very reasonable prices.

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