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Paying the Bill for Electric Vehicles

November 18, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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Perhaps it's merely a sign of the times, when a billion is the new million and firms in many industries have found it easier to get capital from the government than from bankers, bondholders and shareholders, but the price tag implicit in the recommendations of a new cross-industry group formed to promote electric vehicles is startling... [read more]

Operation Overdrive Redux

December 2, 2008 by Henry Gentenaar
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As an addendum to my earlier post titled Operation Overdrive, wherein I suggest that GM and Bob Lutz are irrelevant, check out this clip from September17th's Colbert Report. Lutz - the notorious climate skeptic who oversees product development at GM -plugged GM’s "gas-friendly" technologies in one breath and then denied human-caused... [read more]

Don’t bother, they’re heeeeere.

August 4, 2008 by Lou Grinzo
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The clowns, that is. In researching and writing about energy and environmental issues, there are times when I want to scream and beat the walls with my fists until they’re bloody. And thanks to our friends in the automotive business, today provided yet another example of the towering idiocy that sends me into such virtual rages. What am... [read more]