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AFVI 2008: A few final thoughts on green moves in Sin City, with Wendell Berry

I covered the AFVI Expo last week and that trip was my first visit to Las Vegas. I've heard the stories, the advertising campaign that tries to sell Sin City as, well, Sin City that takes your credit card. What interested me the most, though, was how my environmentalist mind would react to being in a city that, quite honestly, celebrates excess and waste. I didn't expect to feel comfortable in an oasis of VIP come-ons and bright lights surrounded by a harsh desert. I arrived in town around noon and, during my lunch at a quite reasonable buffet ... Read more →

Artist helps you visualize how many SUVs are sold in America Sam Abuelsamid

In general humans tend to think at a very local scale. They can visualize the things that directly impact their lives, like how much they spend on groceries or rent. But as numbers grow beyond that ...

September sets another ethanol production record, sales also strong Dane Muldoon

The September U.S. sales figures have just been released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), and ethanol keeps going from strength to strength. The industry produced 333,000 barrels of ...

Significantly lower car fuel use in Germany by 2025 Bruno Vanzieleghem

The German Mineraloelwirtschaftverband (MWV for short) predicts a drop by nearly a quarter in gasoline and diesel demand in the next 20 years. The consumption of gasoline usage for road traffic alone ...

USA Today: Americans unlikely to save much gas Bruno Vanzieleghem

In our little blog microcosm all we talk about is a variety of ways to conserve fuel or switch to renewable fuel sources. But, according to a USA Today article, the majority of Americans don't plan ...

Japanese Oil Industry Downturn 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

While US based oil companies are raking in the profits, their Japanese counterparts are not as successful. Asia Times reports the oil industry suffered the first decline in gasoline sales in 21 years for fiscal year 2005, due to increasing gas prices and more fuel-efficient cars. According to the ...

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CAFE – Corporate Average Fuel Economy. A system used in the U.S. to define mileage requirements of new vehicles.

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