To make matters worse, observers expect that an amendment by Rep. Diana Degette (D.-Colo.) to mandate that 20% of electricity production come from renewable sources by 2020 will pass, as will another by Rep. Ed Marttey (D-Mass.), to radically increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE) for automobiles, forcing production of lighter, more dangerous cars that are more expensive for consumers.
THE advantages of hydrogen fuel-cell cars are obvious: They produce no pollution, burn no oil or gasoline and would give America total energy independence. But there is no mass production of fuel-cell cars today and no one expects them in dealer showrooms before 2010 at the earliest. What's more, there is no network of refueling stations to pump hydrogen into innovative cars, and one energy expert at the University of California at Berkeley estimates it would cost billions of dollars to create one, an average of about $5,000 per vehicle.
EPA and NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, are issuing this joint proposal to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for model years 2017-2025. This proposal extends the National Program beyond the greenhouse gas and corporate average fuel economy standards set for model years 2012-2016. On May 21, 2010, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum requesting that NHTSA and EPA develop through notice and comment rulemaking a coordinated National Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of light-duty vehicles for model years 2017- 2025. This proposal, consistent with the President's request, responds to the country's critical need to address global climate change and to reduce oil consumption. NHTSA is proposing C...
...These standards apply to passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-. duty passenger ve... of the fleet through the expanded production of stop/start, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric..., as it relates to vehicle footprint and mass as described in Section II.C and II.G below, respe...
General Motors, Honda and other automakers are competing to be first on the massappeal market with fuel cell-powered cars that will use energy more efficiently than gasolinepowered vehicles and won't pollute. With prototypes already in the field, automakers are planning to market the cars for wider distribution in the next few years. Mass production of the vehicles is projected to begin by 2010 or so, at a scale which the companies say could result in prices comparable to today's gasoline-powered vehicles.
HR: I think that's a false perception of the possibilities. The oil that's harvested from the palm plantations in Indonesians used to make biodiesel. There's this tremendous clear-cutting and dispossession of indigenous communities. It's not like, if this doesn't work, then nothing will work, so it's better than doing nothing. There's a whole range of things we can be doing to cut our CO2 emissions, which is really what biodiesel is all about. So, any conservation we do, and shifting to mass transit," getting people out of their cars and onto electric trains and high-speed rail will put a huge dent in our CO2 emissions. There are many, many other options, but too often politicians and the media don't talk about them. HR: Sure, it is. But it's important for people to keep in mind that, w...
... vehicles, biofuels and organic food production. Her journey took her to such remote locales as th...
...The promise of millions of cars powered by electric batteries has drawn the attent... lithium reserves to meet the demand that the mass production of electric cars is expected to generat...
One of the things that makes America great is the Have Your Cake and Eat It Too Club, whose members include Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Edison's "cake" was reading, a passion which he had trouble enjoying at night by candle, so he invented the light bulb, which helped him enjoy a good read when the sun went down. Ford's "cake" was cars, which were too expensive to be made for profit until he developed mass production, which helped him have cars and eat big profits, too.
Entire industries grew up around gasoline-powered cars, ranging from the ubiquitous filling stations to fast-food restaurants along highway exits. Similarly, the rise of electric cars probably will transform more than just the automobile. The moment you put a plug on a car, you've got these two titan industries coming together and supporting a customer," said Ed Kjaer, the director of electric transportation for Southern California Edison, a giant utility.
... Once a critical mass is reached in production and sales of electric ca...
Instead of improving the environment and moderating oil prices, cornbased ethanol could result in mass deforestation, strained land and water resources, increased food prices, augmented poverty and swarms of farmers uprooted from their land. Feeding Cars and Starving the Poor On March 29, 2007, Cuban leader Fidel Castro berated Bush's economic initiatives for ethanol production in the Cuban Communist party! newspaper Granma, stating that using corn, or any food source, to produce ethanol could result in the "premature death" of upwards of three billion people.
...We want new production and new development in this facility.". Dwyer adde..."There's a big difference between the mass production of cars and the almost custom processes...
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