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Bush approves offshore drilling to spur on Congress

There has been a US ban on offshore oil drilling for the past 27 years, and George Bush Sr. signed off on an executive order echoing the ban in 1990. Originally, the ban was agreed upon to protect the beaches and tourism economies of coastal towns, and now global warming has been added into the mix. With one stroke of the mighty pen, George Jr. has undone his father's order by lifting the ban on offshore drilling, but the move means nothing unless Congress also lifts its separate ban. The Bush Administration is trying to put pressure on ... Read more →

DOE pours $385 million into cellulosic ethanol production Dane Muldoon

The U.S. Department of Energy has dug into its coffers once again for alternative energy research, this time putting up to $385 million forward to fund six cellulosic ethanol over the next four ...

Congress hopes to come to a compromise on Bush's fuel economy goals Jeremy Korzeniewski

Perhaps President Bush knew what was coming when he decided to check out the Phoenix SUT and a plug-in Toyota Prius last week. According to the the Detroit News, Congress is meeting to discuss Bush's ...

Editorial: Analyzing President Bush's short speech on electric cars and cellulosic ethanol Jeremy Korzeniewski

An earlier post here on ABG brought attention to the fact that President Bush viewed the Phoenix Motorcars SUT and a plug-in hybrid version of the Toyota Prius at request of the White House. We ...

President Bush examines the Phoenix electric SUT and a plug-in hybrid from A123 Systems Jeremy Korzeniewski

A123 batteries, who recently won a contract, along with Johnson Controls via the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium, delivered an unidentified plug-in hybrid to the White House for President Bush to ...

Ford loves ethanol 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res images of the Ford E85 Escape Hybrids. Ford unveiled the Escape Hybrid E85 flex-fuel SUV last month at the DC Auto Show. The 85 percent ethanol-capable Escape looks like its just the start of many projected flex-fuel vehicle (FFV) models being produced ...

Is Washington pressing scientists to downplay global warming? Congress to investigate 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

At a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chair Henry Waxman (D-California) said, "We know that the White House possesses documents that contain evidence of an attempt by senior administration officials to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global ...

There will be no "historic shift" in the State of the Union speech from President Bush 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There has been speculation in the last few days that President Bush would, in his State of the Union speech, announce a historic shift in the U.S. climate change policy. It seems that this is not the case. This topic will certainly not help any of the feelings of Tony Blair or Angela Merkel, ...

Tom Bevan: Imagine what could happen with real leadership on alternative fuel issue 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Following up on yesterday's post about the public opinion polls showing that American's want alternative fuels, and are even willing to pay a higher gas tax to make the U.S. more energy independent, I wanted to link to this opinion piece by Tom Bevan in last Friday's Real Clear Politics. Bevan ...

Political battles over passenger CAFE standards heating up 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Two weeks ago, President Bush and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta asked Congress to give the President and the Department of Transportation more legal authority to raise the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) mileage standards on passenger vehicles. One the one hand, this seems like a ...

President Bush attempts to look green, can't help but help oil companies 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Speaking of politicians, I think Talkingpointsmemo has an attitude worth remembering whenever President Bush talks about the changes that America needs to go through in order to curb our addiction to oil. While he’s willing to say we have an addiction to oil, he sure isn’t willing to ...


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