Recent Comments:
"Dumb on all counts" - the experts chime in on the gas tax holiday idea {Autoblog Green}
May 1st 2008 4:56PM The economists and energy policy experts agree that it is a bad idea. (All those "liberals" at the Wall Street Journal.) Obama apparently listened to them and has changed his mind about a gas tax holiday since he was in a IL legislature. The McCain and Clinton approach appeal to the ditto-heads like Gripen would like their $25 bucks even if it means delays in road construction. This gives me one more reason to dislike Clinton.
Bush administration backs automakers in Vermont in GHG emissions case {Autoblog Green}
Apr 18th 2008 10:46AM Bush backs state's right on every issue.. unless it has to do with pollution & the environment (or big business).
2009 Buick Lucerne adds the ability to use a fuel that it will likely never use {Autoblog Green}
Apr 18th 2008 9:31AM Good to see GM putting effort into this.... just in time for a few more studies to show that E85 from corn is a giant waste. We should take bets on which happens first, cellulosic ethanol or the Volt's mass production.
GM idles Texas plant {Autoblog Green}
Apr 15th 2008 2:58PM Good thing they've got a hybrid Tahoe coming out. The market for large SUVs is clearly robust...
Prius pillage pre-meditated in Petaluma {Autoblog Green}
Apr 15th 2008 2:09PM I hope the FBI takes this act of terrorism as seriously as they took the Hummer attacks. These Anti-Eco-Terrorists must be stopped....
(Probably just a bunch of dumb kids just like the idiots that torched the Hummers.)
McCain calls for summer holiday from federal gas tax {Autoblog Green}
Apr 15th 2008 2:06PM McCain is pandering to the short-sighted electorate. If we had raised gas taxed ten years ago to that gas cost what it does now, we'd have transit everywhere, new roads, and probably have some left over for health care. $3 gas hurts but people will pay it. Everybody that drives anything bigger than a Chevy Aveo is proof of that. (I don't drive an Aveo, BTW...) Increasing gas taxes is a win-win. More money for transit/roads and more incentive to use less gas/pollute less. Lowering gas taxes, for the same reasons, if lose-lose.
Activist shareholders relent, praise Ford's emissions target {Autoblog Green}
Apr 10th 2008 12:29PM I agree with jeff. All the US auto makers (and lots of Japanese ones too) need more pressure to get cars out on the market. GM and Ford are blowing a whole lotta smoke right now. (And FThorn needs to get grow up, get a drivers license and see how real people drive. Does your mom not let you stay out after dark?)
Sales of GM hybrids almost non-existent in first quarter {Autoblog Green}
Apr 8th 2008 10:04AM GM is using this as a marketing ploy and hoping that the average consumer is dumb enough to buy it. If the last 20 years of US auto history has proven anything, it is that the US consumer will buy into the hype for a time but eventually find out the truth... and at that point, popular conception will be that GM doesn't really sell hybrids and folks will head on over to the nearest Japanese dealer (and buy a hybrid made in Indiana or Ohio). If GM continues this greenwashing, it will have a hard time digging out of the hole. (Unlike Ford, which though it only has one hybrid, it is one you can actually buy and actually saves gas.)
GM: by 2015, one-third of our US car sales will be hybrids, and the V-8 engine will quasi-disappear {Autoblog Green}
Mar 19th 2008 9:46AM The last line of this article is a crock of *(&*&(. GM sold 30 hybrids in February 2008. They've got nothing worthwhile on the market. GM needs to get cars on the road, cars with better gas mileage (not the pathetic Aura and Vue). Lutz is just blowing smoke and who ever wrote this article is sucking it right up. He's right about the CAFE standards, but GM isn't smart enough to get out in front of the impact.
The numbers are in: 6.48 billion gallons of ethanol made in the U.S. in 2007 {Autoblog Green}
Mar 13th 2008 10:02AM We've got plenty of E85 cars out there. The problem is nearly none of them run on E85 because it isn't widely available.
E85 from corn should be banned. It uses almost as much energy to make as it saves in gas. Study after study has shown this. Until we can get cellulosic ethanol off the ground, E85 is a fluke. The last thing we want to run our cars on is food.
