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Friedman: "Drill, baby, drill" makes America stupid

Photo by maveric2003. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Every now and then, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman reiterates his support for plug-in vehicles in his columns. His latest, headlined "Making America Stupid" doesn't mention PHEVs by name, but it does put the question of where our future energy should come from into stark partisan relief. Friedman's basic idea is that any encouragement of domestic drilling, especially the inane "drill, baby, drill" refrain, just makes America stupid because we're not spending money ... Read more →

Friedman: American energy policy is going to require some hard truths, and $4 gas Sebastian Blanco

Photo by Jacob Enos. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Now that the hub-bub over the gas tax holiday has pretty much passed from the commentary pages (funny how that happens), there is a ...

General Motors joins Toyota and jumps into the Friedman fray Sam Abuelsamid

In the past New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has made his disdain for the US Domestic auto industry clearly known and the other day the pro-globalization writer fired off a salvo at Toyota for ...

Friedman: "Drill, baby, drill" makes America stupid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by maveric2003. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Every now and then, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman reiterates his support for plug-in vehicles in his columns. His latest, headlined "Making America Stupid" doesn't mention PHEVs by name, but it does put the question of ...

Friedman: American energy policy is going to require some hard truths, and $4 gas 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Jacob Enos. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Now that the hub-bub over the gas tax holiday has pretty much passed from the commentary pages (funny how that happens), there is a bit of room to take a step back and think about the bigger energy picture. In his latest column, ...

General Motors joins Toyota and jumps into the Friedman fray 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In the past New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has made his disdain for the US Domestic auto industry clearly known and the other day the pro-globalization writer fired off a salvo at Toyota for their current stance on new fuel economy regulations. Toyota's Irv Miller was quick to return fire ...


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