Our society is rushing to escape the energy culture as we know it, in order to remake it as we don’t know it. The irony is that a marginal amount of planning — continual improvement in mileage standards, closing of the loophole in those standards that exempted light trucks, steady federal investment in renewable energy — might have alleviated the energy and climate crunch facing us today.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) — General Motors Corp. is using its new Chevrolet Volt hybrid car as one of its main selling points in trying to land a federal bailout, industry observers say.
DETROIT – The Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid, will not arrive in showrooms until late 2010. But it is already straining under the weight of an entire company. Executives at General Motors, the largest and apparently the most imperiled of the Big Three U.S. car companies, are using the Volt as the centerpiece of their case to a skeptical Congress that their business plan for a turnaround is …
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. spent a half-hour Friday in Washington, D.C., with the head of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team but not because he’s vying for a spot in the new administration.
Crude oil rose for the first time in six days Friday as OPEC members cut production.
There’s something in the wind.It’s news, and the news is this: T. Boone Pickens, celebrated author of the Pickens Plan, is coming to Oklahoma City next month to deliver a keynote address at Oklahoma’s inaugural conference on wind development.The conference, organizers say, is to address both challenges and possibilities of wind energy.”Wind projects are emerging across our state,” said David …
