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'Bipartisan leadership for energy independence' Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith touts work with Obama in new campaign ad	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon is touting his work with Barack Obama to improve automobile fuel efficiency and his 'bipartisan leadership for energy independence' in a new television ad. Smith, the sole GOP senator on the West Coast, is fighting to maintain his seat this year in what's expected to be a tightly contested race against Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley. Watch it: The Obama campaign issued a statement yesterday on their candidate's appear ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, fuel efficiency, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

House rules Select Committee acquires documents related to EPA's proposals for rulemaking on auto emissions	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
We reported a few weeks ago that the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming had reached a deal with the White House to secure documents from the Environmental Protection Agency on its work in response to the Supreme Court's decision in the case Massachusetts v. EPA. We also reported that The Wall Street Journal had gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency resulting from the Massachuse ...
Topics: Congress, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Big Three on credit watch S&P cites automakers' cashflow concerns	Michael Moynihan	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the NDN Blog. While news about high fuel prices this past week centered on disingenuous calls by President Bush and others to drill our way out of the crisis, perhaps the most significant -- and ominous event -- was the barely publicized action by S&P Friday to place the Big Three U.S. automakers on a credit watch. In taking the action, S&P cited 'renewed concerns about the three car makers' future cash flows.' Given Ford's ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, economy, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

Battery powered McCain calls for $300 million prize for the designer of a better electric-car battery	Kate Sheppard	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican presidential contender John McCain gave a speech in Fresno, Calif., today calling for a $300 million prize, paid by the government, to be awarded to the person who can design a better electric car battery. 'This is one dollar for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. -- a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency -- and should deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs,' said McCain. The Republican candid ...
Topics: electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

The mpg illusion Gallons per mile: A better way to express fuel efficiency	Maywa Montenegro	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Let's say a pollster walks up to you and asks you the following question: 'A town maintains a fleet of vehicles for town employee use. It has two types of vehicles. Type A gets 15 miles per gallon. Type B gets 34 miles per gallon. The town has 100 Type A vehicles and 100 Type B vehicles. Each car in the fleet is driven 10,000 miles per year.' The town wants to replace these vehicles with corresponding hybrid models in order to to reduce gas consumption of th ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics)

Tough draft Draft copy of EPA rulemaking on fuel efficiency suggests higher standards are possible	Kate Sheppard	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal teased that they'd gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency. According to the WSJ, EPA staffers found that cars and trucks could be even more fuel-efficient by 2020 than the 35 miles per gallon required by the latest update to CAFE standards. The draft notes that advanced technologies like plug-in hybrid vehicles could help raise fuel efficiency well beyond 35 mile ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Pause for effect Iconic Ford SUV plant to be idled for summer	Sara Barz	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Dean Souglass Ford will close its Michigan Truck Plant in Wayne for nine weeks -- four weeks longer than previously announced -- starting on June 23. Birthplace to Lincoln Navigators and Ford Expeditions, the MTP has come in for hard times due to the plummeting market for SUVs. Since January, Expedition sales are down 31 percent; Navigators, 22 percent. Once bread and butter for American automakers, SUVs have fallen victim to $4-a-gallon gasoline. To ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, fuel efficiency, gas prices (all these topics)

The politics of clean energy Considering recycled energy will politically facilitate a national clean energy plan	Sean Casten	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
There is a tendency to frame the politics of clean energy as a debate between the enlightened, forward thinkers on the coasts and the paleolithic environment-hating coal barons in the Southeast and Midwest. It makes a good sound bite, but confuses the ends and the means. Yes, there are strong vested interests in the coal belt and the rust belt that consistently resist GHG caps and clean energy policy. But so long as we frame the clean energy conversation as a wealth t ...
Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, legislation, state politics (all these topics)

It's not about the fuel The case for fuel-agnostic efficiency	Sean Casten	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Those of us who care about energy and environmental policy have a bad habit: the lazy but rhetorically convenient tendency to refer to energy issues as if they were fuel issues. From solar to coal to uranium, we have developed a shorthand that uses these words to describe a whole fuel-chain, from raw fuel extraction/recovery to end-use consumption. But the language is dangerous. What matters is efficiency -- true, fuel-agnostic efficiency, applied equally to every pos ...
Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, legislation (all these topics)

Turn Down the AC, Turn Up the AC/DC Wal-Mart truck fleet on track to meet fuel-efficiency goals		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:06 PM on 13 Jun 2008 Wal-Mart has improved the fuel efficiency of its 7,000-truck fleet by 20 percent since Oct. 2005 and is on track to meet its goal of a 25 percent improvement by the end of 2008, a Wal-Mart executive said Friday. Having already downsized its diesel tanks and started rolling on more efficient tires, the company also hopes to introduce hybrids into its fleet and perhaps ...
Topics: business, fuel efficiency, greening biz operations, music, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Demand outstripping supply again Buying a high-mileage car easier said than done	biodiversivist	07 Jun 2008	Gristmill
My brother-in-law recently sent me a spreadsheet he'd built that compares a Prius and two similar-sized cars. He just wanted to know if 'doing the right thing was going to cost me.' The numbers said to buy a Prius. Ideally, going green should always be a win-win situation. Then, however, he found that the waiting list is 'baaaack!' So he'll have to put down a deposit just to get in line. He was quite disappointed and may now buy a different car. My car is also on t ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, fuel efficiency, green living, Prius, shopping (all these topics)

Gas at $12-15? Not so fast But soon we will be mad for $6-7 gas	Joseph Romm	23 May 2008	Gristmill
Normally, I would listen to Robert Hirsch and the legendary Charlie Maxwell, over CNBC's 'Mad' Jim Cramer. But Hirsch and Maxwell are making headlines for saying $12-15 gasoline is around the corner, based on Maxwell's projection of oil 'reaching $180 a barrel in 2015 and $300 a barrel in 2020.' Sorry, guys -- every extra $40 barrel is another dollar a gallon or so at the pump. Don't quite know how they did the math, but they did it wrong.When Mad Money's Jim Cramer ...
Topics: business, cars, energy, fuel efficiency, gas prices, oil (all these topics)

Cruisin' Altitude Airline slows down to reduce emissions		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:12 AM on 20 May 2008 Scandinavian airline SAS has found a viable way to cut down on greenhouse-gas emissions and fuel costs: fly slower. The airline has been testing slower speeds since early 2006, and says it has saved some $12 million in fuel costs since then. And have no fear about missing your connection; hitting the brakes adds mere minutes to travel time. SAS hopes that implementing the slowdown strategy throughout its f ...
Topics: air travel, business, climate, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news (all these topics)

High gas prices, healthy new habits Gallup shows Americans making smart choices to break the gas habit.	Anna Fahey	16 May 2008	Gristmill
It took soaring fuel prices for old habits to shift. But they're shifting alright. Just take a look at these poll results -- Gallup finds that big numbers of Americans are making changes in their daily lives to deal with higher gas prices. Here's a snapshot: Most telling, perhaps, is that 7 out of 10 poll respondents are considering a more fuel-efficient car. That's a change that'll help control energy costs for years to come, no matter what happens to the price of gasol ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, gas prices, green living, shopping (all these topics)

Change now or change never The longer we wait to move away from gasoline, the more high gas prices will hurt	Ryan Avent	05 May 2008	Gristmill
Like Americans, Europeans are generally not fond of rising fuel costs. Unlike Americans, they're much better at handling them. It isn't difficult to understand why; they simply planned ahead. Geoffrey Styles writes: A big part of our problem is that most Americans are still driving cars that were purchased when gasoline was under $1.50/gal., to commute between work and home locations that were chosen when fuel was even cheaper ...As of this week, nominal U.S. retail ga ...
Topics: energy, European Union, fuel efficiency, oil, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

The slow car movement Easing off the gas eases gas use	Eric de Place	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A few weeks ago, Clark wrote about truck drivers slowing down to economize on fuel. It's a great story, but was it a real trend or just anecdotal? Photo: Pietro Izzo Well, I'm here to report that there's some truth to it. Or at least some truthiness. A recent Congressional Budget Office paper examining the effects of gas prices found this: 'Freeway motorists have adjusted to higher prices by making fewer trips and driving more slowly.' That's surprisi ...
Topics: energy, fuel efficiency, green living (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)

Cold CAFE Governors rally against dirty Bush car plan	Frank O'Donnell	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Nothing brings together diverse groups like a common threat. And governors in environmentally progressive states are getting used to banding together against the Bush administration. Now they've done it again, to protest the 'cynical' effort by the Bush Department of Transportation to take away the right of California to set tougher greenhouse gas standards for cars (and the right of other states to adopt the California standards). The latest assault on stat ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, Department of Transportation, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, regulation (all these topics)

What is the Vectrix? Electric bike zips up Berkeley hills with ease	Adam Browning	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
An ex-girlfriend of mine placed great diagnostic weight on the following question: Would you rather have one cookie now or two cookies later? I am generally a two-cookies-later person, and she ... well, now that I think of it, she was more of a two-cookies-now kind of person, which explains ... Photo: Sonietta46 I digress. The point is that if you have been reading all the recent news about the Tesla and the Volt, and now Think is coming to America, a ...
Topics: bikes, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Start Your Engines Feds set fuel-economy benchmarks for automakers		22 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 11:14 AM on 22 Apr 2008 Federal regulators will propose benchmarks Tuesday for automakers to hit on their way to reaching a fuel-economy requirement of 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Auto fleets will have to average 27.8 mpg by 2011 and 31.6 mpg by 2015 -- a more aggressive timetable than was required by Congress. That's 35.7 mpg for passenger cars in 2015 (new cars averaged 31.3 mpg last year) and 28.6 mpg for light truc ...
Topics: business, cars, climate, fuel efficiency, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Cool paint job Reflective paint and glaze can reduce the need for A/C in your car	Joseph Romm	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- California's AB 32 cap on greenhouse gas emissions has its regulatory agencies working to find a set of measures that will amount to savings enough to cut 2020 emissions by about 30 percent. Since 12 years is too short to change California's vehicle fleet or its power plants, myriad measures are being considered, each rather small but hoped to make a difference cumulatively. One such ef ...
Topics: cars, climate, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, tech (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)

Another urban legend is spawned Prius 'proven' to get worse gas mileage than BMW 520d	biodiversivist	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This story in the U.K.'s Times Online is racing around the interwebs. Google 'BMW 520d' and note how many pages deep it goes. Two goofballs journalists took a road trip, one in a Prius and the other in a BMW 520d. The BMW purportedly got about 4 percent better gas mileage than the 'gas guzzling' Prius, which amazingly only managed a dismal 40 mpg. Coincidentally, that is exactly what our Prius got on a road trip last summer, which was not only jammed with people and c ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, Prius (all these topics)

We'll always have Hollywood No American-made car meets China's fuel standards	Joseph Romm	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Toronto Star reported an alarming factoid earlier this month: No gasoline-powered car assembled in North America would meet China's current fuel-efficiency standard. That's mainly because: Currently, their standard is much higher than ours. Their standard is a minimum-allowable efficiency standard rather than a 'fleet-average' standard like ours. Our lame car companies don't make their (relatively few) most efficient vehicles in this country. As for ...
Topics: cars, China, energy, fuel efficiency, international politics, legislation (all these topics)

Keep on Truckin' Truckers slowing down to increase fuel efficiency		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 24 Mar 2008 You think filling up your car is a pain in the wallet? Try being a trucker. Most big rigs get less than 10 miles to the gallon, and diesel fuel is hovering near $4 a gallon in many places. "For every one-penny increase in the price of diesel, it costs our industry $391 million," says a trucking industry spokesperson. In response, many trucking companies are instructing their drivers to ...
Topics: business, fuel efficiency, news (all these topics)

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