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Show Them That You Car Obama talks up green while courting manufacturers		14 May 2008	News
Posted at 4:52 PM on 14 May 2008 Barack Obama courted manufacturers in Michigan Wednesday, touting proposals to boost both green energy and the auto industry. He talked up a plan to auction carbon credits and use the funds to boost clean technology (and, in turn, green jobs), and said he would help the U.S. auto industry get back on its feet while encouraging investment in hybrids, electric vehicles, and other fuel-efficie ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Big Auto, business, green jobs, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Push the Plug Nissan wants to offer you an electric car by 2010		13 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:21 PM on 13 May 2008 Nissan wants to bring electric cars to the U.S. and Japan by 2010 and to the world by 2012, the automaker announced Tuesday. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in 2005 called gas-electric hybrids "niche products," but he's changed his tune, declaring that his company is determined to demonstrate "zero-emission-vehicle leadership." While General Motors and Toyota also have plans to bring ele ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, news (all these topics)

I smell a hedging strategy How much would you pay for cheap gas?	Sean Casten	07 May 2008	Gristmill
Suppose you're a commodity trader. Someone offers you a future contract to buy gasoline at $2.99/gallon for the next three years. If you think that you can sell that gasoline for more than that, you might think this is a license to print money, and would therefore pay for that privilege. Which raises the following questions: How much would you pay for that future 'strip'? Is the answer to Question 1 more or less than a Chrysler?
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, oil (all these topics)

Driven to change March small car sales up; SUV, truck sales down	Joseph Romm	26 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Is $3.25 to $3.50 a gallon the long-awaited for inflexion point for driving a shift in U.S. car-buying habits? Obviously we can't know for sure, but the Detroit News reported that 'cars outsold light trucks' in March. (One auto industry insider told me yesterday that this was only the second time that has ever happened in some two decades.) Yes, the recession no doubt had an impact on the sales of big, expensive vehicles. But since gasoline prices are going to mo ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, fuel efficiency, green living (all these topics)

Herald Ford Ford lays out how it will reduce fleet emissions		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 09 Apr 2008 Ford Motor Co. has laid out specific plans for reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions of its vehicle fleet at least 30 percent by 2020. The announcement comes in response to shareholder resolutions filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (representing about 300 religious investors) and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, organized by green-minded investment group Ceres. S ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Get Off My Porsche! Porsche launches legal challenge to London's congestion fee increase		03 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:38 AM on 03 Apr 2008 German automaker Porsche has launched a formal legal challenge to London Mayor Ken Livingstone's scheduled tripling of the city's congestion fee for the most-polluting vehicles. The increase, slated to take effect in October, would raise the fee for the most-polluting vehicles entering the city center to about $50 a day from $16 now. Livingstone and the city's transportation ...
Topics: Big Auto, climate, London, news, politics (all these topics)

Don't Make Me Turn This Car Around! U.S. auto sales take a nosedive		02 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 02 Apr 2008 Chrysler and General Motors sold 19 percent less automobiles in the U.S. this March than they did last March, according to new sales figures. Ford reported a sales drop of 14 percent in March 2008 compared to March 2007, and even Toyota, which has reported steady sales through other hard times, reported that sales dropped 10 percent. As has been the case for a while, sales of big ol' gas guzzler ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, economy, news (all these topics)

Peak Oil? Bring it on! Solving the climate problem will solve the peak oil problem, too	Joseph Romm	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I have a new article in Salon on perhaps the most misunderstood subject in energy: peak oil. Here is the short version: We are at or near the peak of cheap conventional oil production. There is no realistic prospect that the conventional oil supply can keep up with current projected demand for much longer, if the industrialized countries don't take strong action to sharply reduce consumption, and if China and India don't take strong action to sharply reduce cons ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids, oil, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Passover as if the earth matters A call to action: Street Speakout Seders	Guest author	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center of Philadelphia. For information on eco-policy issues and Street Speakout Seders, email the center. ----- Photo: iStockphoto The traditional Passover Haggadah teaches that in every generation, some Pharaoh will arise in destruction, and that in every generation, every human being -- not just every Jew -- must look upon herself or himself as if it is we -- not our ancestors ...
Topics: Big Auto, Big Oil, business, grassroots activism, green living, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Killing the electric car, again: Part I Is CARB up to its old tricks?	Joseph Romm	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- If you've seen the movie Who Killed the Electric Car? (which is ranked No. 8 on Netflix in documentary rentals), then you know the EV story up to 2003. What you might not know is that it looks like one of the players in the movie, the California Air Resources Board, is up to no good again. In killing Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) the first time, they put off progress on this front ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, California, cars, electric vehicles, energy (all these topics)

Maybe this is why the fossil fuel lobby acts like Big Tobacco How cars are like cigarettes	JMG	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Check out this five-star excellent post on the many similarities between tobacco and cars by Michael O'Hare. He makes the point that once-unquestioned social conventions can change quickly once activists refuse to accept "that's just the way it is" and start highlighting the costs these conventions impose.
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars (all these topics)

This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead Years after everyone else, GM and Toyota execs skeptical about hydrogen cars	Joseph Romm	06 Mar 2008	Gristmill
That Saturday Night Live-esque headline was inspired by a story in The Wall Street Journal yesterday: Top executives from General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. Tuesday expressed doubts about the viability of hydrogen fuel cells for mass-market production in the near term and suggested their companies are now betting that electric cars will prove to be a better way to reduce fuel consumption and cut tailpipe emissions on a large scale. Really? Hydrogen cars o ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, energy, green living, hydrogen (all these topics)

Why are American automakers special? The Big Three attempt to persuade other states of the danger of fuel efficiency standards	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Automakers are ramping up their PR effort to persuade states not to adopt California's auto emission standards, which they fear will survive the Bush administration's latest monkey wrench. But their arguments are as silly as ever: Dave McCurdy, chief executive of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers ... said the California-inspired initiative would result in a "patchwork quilt of inconsistent and competing fuel economy programs" that would lead t ...
Topics: California, state politics, business, Big Auto, cars, politics, air pollution, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate (all these topics)

With Apologies to Billy Joel General Motors unveils hydrogen-powered concept Cadillac		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:03 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Trading in your Chevy for a Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac? You oughta know by now: at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, General Motors unveiled a concept Caddy powered by a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and battery power. Following the rule that all green car technology must have an insipid name, the new Cadillac Provoq (sigh) is designed to travel some 300 mil ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, hydrogen, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Better Truck Next Year Analysts predict slow auto sales in 2008		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 04 Jan 2008 The U.S. saw a December slump in vehicle sales, and analysts predict that 2008 may be the weakest year for auto sales in the U.S. in at least a decade. (Will it correspond with a boost in public-transportation ridership? Probably not, but we can dream.) Sales of pickups, generally a sure bet in the U.S. market, hit the wall last year; the pickup slump helped bump Ford Motors down to the No. 3 highes ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Porsche de Crossy European automakers in a snit over proposed EU emissions cuts		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:07 PM on 19 Dec 2007 A European Union proposal to reduce average new-car CO2 emissions 20 percent by 2012 -- and to fine automakers that don't meet the target -- has revved up observers on all sides. German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- a climate Cassandra whose country is home to industry giants including Porsche, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler -- took a public swipe at the unfairness of the plan; conservationi ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, climate, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

Annals of irritance Feinstein agrees with Big Auto about federal fuel efficiency standards	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
UPDATE: Feinstein is now trying to dig out of this.In all the galling news of today, this probably ranks as a mere annoyance, but still: Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) has her imprimatur on an expression of opinion that could, if it became law, void her own state's pioneering tailpipe pollution laws, just when the courts are explicitly upholding them. Some background: As you probably know, one of the fondest dreams of the American auto industry is to get something passed ...
Topics: legislation, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, US EPA, Big Auto, air pollution, politics (all these topics)

It's a Christmas Miracle! Judge tosses out Big Auto's suit against California		12 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:02 PM on 12 Dec 2007 Automakers must have been bad this year, because Santa has given them a big holiday disappointment. And by Santa we mean U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii, who today declared that California has the authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles, and tossed out automakers' lawsuit against the state. Automakers had sued in 2004 when California passed a law requiring vehicl ...
Topics: Big Auto, California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news (all these topics)

We Love It When This Happens! Bush administration's fuel-economy regs for bigger vehicles smacked down		15 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:50 PM on 15 Nov 2007 A federal appeals court has rejected the Bush administration's fuel-economy regulations for 2008-2011 model light trucks and SUVs. In the scathing tone that the Bushies are becoming quite familiar with, the judges declared that the regulations did not consider the economic impact of vehicle emissions' contribution to climate change, and ordered the Transportati ...
Topics: Big Auto, Department of Transportation, fuel efficiency, litigation, news, politics, progress (all these topics)

Honk if You Love Hypocrisy Big Auto unveils efficient cars, continues to fight against strict efficiency standards		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 1:28 PM on 14 Nov 2007 When the L.A. auto show opens to the public on Friday, automakers will flaunt hydrogen cars, super-efficient engines, electric vehicles, and hybrid SUVs -- leading some to wonder at the disconnect between car manufacturers' public-facing "green" ambitions and their vocal opposition to a significant increase in federal fuel-economy standard ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, fuel efficiency, greenwashing, Los Angeles, news (all these topics)

CAFE: Still possible Citigroup finds Senate fuel efficiency targets attainable	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Financial giant Citigroup recently analyzed the question of whether the CAFE fuel-efficiency targets in the Senate energy bill are possible for the automakers to meet. Its finding: Yes, they are "tough but attainable" (sub rqd), and might even prove a net financial benefit. Said Rep. Ed Markey: "When you have the world's number one bank, which has financial ties to many major automakers, saying fuel economy standards are a good economic play, it dri ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, energy, Big Auto (all these topics)

Nuisance Review Judge tosses out lawsuit brought by California against automakers		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:21 AM on 18 Sep 2007 Automakers gained an edge yesterday in the Big Auto vs. California debate, as a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit against the world's six largest auto companies brought by California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Brown had claimed that because of the harmful environmental effects of vehicles' greenhouse-gas emissions, the Big Six were running afoul of California's public nuisance ...
Topics: Big Auto, California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Govs to automakers: Get on board An open letter from 13 governors to U.S. automakers	David Roberts	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill
As you know, today automakers lost their big lawsuit in Vermont -- the judge ruled their their objections to higher tailpipe emission standards were, um, silly. Now, the governors of 13 states have sent an open letter to the automakers. "We do not believe it is productive for your industry to continue to fight state implementation of clean tailpipe standards," they say.� "We would prefer to follow a path that encourages innovation, not litigation.&qu ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Sass Is in Sessions Judge rules against Big Auto, says states can regulate emissions from cars		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:11 AM on 12 Sep 2007 States should be allowed to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, and Big Auto should just deal, a federal judge ruled today. Right now, the only real way to curb the emissions is to improve gas mileage; when Vermont decided to adopt California's strict emissions rules, automakers sued, claiming that the state was illegally regulating fuel economy -- and that ma ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, climate, energy, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, regulation ... (all these topics)

Classy Consciousness Honda to release unique-looking hybrid for conspicuous greens		28 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Classy Consciousness Honda to release unique-looking hybrid for conspicuous greens Honda plans to make its hybrid cars more visible by 2009 by redesigning their exterior to stand out from the rest of its models. One of the reasons Honda has been trailing hybrid-market leader Toyota by such a large margin, according to industry analysts, is the Toyota Prius' unique shape that helps the public id ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news (all these topics)

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