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EDTA 2008: The View from Congress

It was very likely because of who the audience was, but all the panelists at today's "View from the Hill" seminar at the EDTA show agreed that electric drive is the way to go for the future of the American car. Congressional staffer JJ Brown, from Senator Orrin Hatch's (R-UT) office, Pat Bousliman, the natural resources adviser to the Senate Finance Committee, and Mike Carr, counsel to the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee (he also works for Senator Bingaman, D-NM), spoke about how lawmakers view the options for moving America to ... Read more →

Breaking: Senate passes PHEV legislation Jeremy Korzeniewski

Jeep EV The Senate has approved a sweeping energy bill that includes a provision for a rather substantial tax credit for plug-in hybrids. Of course, the bill still needs to make it through the ...

Does the Heritage Foundation misstate results of a CAFE-safety study? Lascelles Linton

The video above, "The Energy Debate: Just the Facts," is from the Heritage Foundation and includes the results of a study on CAFE and safety that I think may have been misstated. The video starts out ...

AutoblogGreen video: Six-hour House debate on fuel efficiency in just 5 minutes Lascelles Linton

I watched the last six hours of the House of Representatives debate on the energy bill yesterday and recorded significant references to CAFE, fuel efficiency, transportation, etc. and whittled it ...

Video: Dingell admits defeat, will vote for energy bill Lascelles Linton

In September, I wrote Dingell would kill CAFE. Earlier today, I wrote he played a part in delaying a vote on the energy bill in the House. However, a rebel alliance has pushed the vote through, and ...

Energy bill vote delayed, CAFE back on the table 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

What did I tell ya? The great photo above is of Bush and Dingell from 2005 but it could have been two days ago. According to the Detroit News, the House has delayed the energy bill vote. As we reported, CAFE is largely settled and even Toyota has come out in support of the new agreement. Trouble ...

White House threatens to veto energy bill again 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Recently we reported that the CAFE issue was largely settled in the energy bill. On CSPAN Monday, Edmund Andrews of the New York Times even dared to say Dingell "lost." Do not underestimate the power of the Dingell side, you have no idea of the power he possesses. Don't believe me? Let's keep in ...

Bush tells Congress how to write an energy bill 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Bush sent a letter telling Congress what changes they can make to the energy bill so he does not veto it. Allan Hubbard wrote the letter that the White House sent to Congressional leaders (Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner) with a list of "deal-makers and deal-breakers." The ...

Overview of Snake Oil Policy, or another look at energy bills pending in Congress 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Need a rundown of the energy policy bills before Congress? At least one man's view? Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, has comments worth reading and debating. Basically he says: Oil rationing would raise the price of oil to unprecedented ...

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