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Editorial: Henderson's fuel cell 10X cost comments are out of context
The other day we reported on an interview with General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson published in the Washington Post. While most of the discussion focused on the bailout and bankruptcy, from the perspective of this site, the main items of interest were Henderson's responses to questions relating the to the cost of the Chevy Volt and hydrogen fuel cells. Much has been made of Henderson saying that the Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell used for the Project Driveway program cost 10 times the Volt's approximately $40,000 price. The problem here is that ... Read more →
EDITORIAL: Attention Wall Street Journal - Ford does not use Toyota's hybrid system! Sam Abuelsamid
in an op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal, Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute starts by making a few decent points about fuel taxation and fuel economy rules. Unfortunately, he ...
Editorial: A simple way to reduce SoCal pollution and fuel consumption Sam Abuelsamid
As I spent several days in Los Angeles, CA last week I came to several realizations. First I never want to live there. While air quality has dramatically improved since the 1960s, the geography of ...
Editorial: Why must cars continue to get larger and larger? Jeremy Korzeniewski
There is a cycle in the automotive industry of enlarging cars with each and every redesign. The latest casualty is the Honda Accord, once known as a more sensible choice in the face of ever-larger ...
A brief editorial, inspired by... Lindsay Lohan!? Jeremy Korzeniewski
I'm not sure how I feel about writing this... I mean, I've never been inspired to do anything by Lindsay Lohan before. I'm not so sure that I want to be either, but oh well. Unlike (prepare for an ...
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Al Gore's Inconvenient Proposal - "Moving Beyond Kyoto" - and editorial 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Just yesterday, July 1st, Al Gore authored an opinion editorial which was published in the New York Times. I have copied a few choice portions from the editorial, and will have a few comments after the break, if you care to read them. All of the following are quotes attributed to Gore from his ...
TTAC on Global Warming and the media... The Truth About Press? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Ah yes, the media. The media loves their scandals, debates and tragedies. That would be because the public loves them too. Or, am I wrong? And Global Warming could fall under all three of those categories. It could be a scandal and a tragedy at the same time, in fact, depending on who is doing the ...
Editorial: Fossil fuel's guilty pleasures and their green alternatives 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Flight. Drag racing. Radio controlled vehicles. Monster trucks, motocross... the list goes on and on. What list am I making? A list of activities or hobbies that could be considered by some to be environmentally irresponsible. Why? Let's examine some of them, starting with flight. Much has been ...
Editorial: Thoughts on the performance and potential of ethanol 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Just in the last few days, we have shown you some different high-performance engines and vehicles designed to run on E85. We also showed you the fastest vehicle in the world that runs on E85. There has been much debate over the merits of such creations. This is not a question of whether they deserve ...
Editorial: So, since "global climate change" is official now... 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Notice the words "Global Warming" were not mentioned during the State of the Union address, but we did hear the words "global climate change". What is the difference? One is burned into the public psyche and the other isn't; one sounds worse than the other. But, really they mean the same thing for ...
Experimental 'pay per mile' tax program harms future car development 3 years ago on Autoblog Green
Remember the Oregon state program where volunteer drivers are taxed on the number of miles they drive daily? The monies gathered would be used for road construction and repair. An editorial in the Toledo Blade blasts the program. It points out that such a program, if it were made into law, would ...
Phelan mourns EV1 as costly distraction to GM 3 years ago on Autoblog Green
Mark Phelan of the Detroit Free Press, reflecting opinions similar to Inside Line's Karl Brauer on the EV1, adds that General Motor's research may have hamstrung the automaker's future in hybrid development. Phelan, who was one of the few journalists who actually test-drove the electric ...
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