Wow, the battle over the future of American-based car manufacturers is getting more complex. Now there's a major battle brewing WITHIN the majority Democratic Party, and it's centered on the political clout of the Detroit auto interests.
Down along the Texas Gulf Coast this week, man's arrogance has been hard hit by Ike. Even the Texas land commissioner is now muttering about things like zoning and building restrictions.
"Discover" Magazine profiled their own publication's carbon footprint. Here's the whole article, a brave move not likely to be popular among mag publishers.
The U.S. government is preparing American drivers for $4 gasoline this spring.
Awright, this commodities thing is getting outta hand. I can ignore gold at over $1000 per ounce.
Daylight Savings Time was foisted off on an unsuspecting and credulous nation as a great idea back during the 1970s energy crisis. So Congress went ahead and expanded it,more of a good thing.
The winning Jetta. Courtesy: CBS InteractiveIt is a VW diesel that won the award.
An electric utility is suing the state of Kansas for denying said utility the permit to build more coal-fired electricity generation facilities in rural western Kansas. It's been thirteen unhappy months for Sunflower Electric Power since Kansas refused them the air quality permits for the additional coal-burning plants.
ZAP truck courtesy of ZAP.American consumers are bypassing Big Oil and Big Auto, they are going directly to the electric car.
Read all about it. MIT professor and a fellow researcher say they've duplicated the process of photosynthesis and can create synthetic leaves.