Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?
Yes, American gasoline prices have risen more than 30% in a year. Yes, consumption is now down in the U.
Yes, American gasoline prices have risen more than 30% in a year. Yes, consumption is now down in the U.
In today's radio address, the President-elect specifically said he intends to add jobs in the greentech sector. Here's the specific passage: "We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.
As always, money will dominate American poilitics next year. But it appears science may play a larger role that it has in recent years.
Two more leaked cabinet choices from the incoming Obama Administration. Both will have influence on energy, land use and green tech subsidies.
Today the California Air Resources Board approved state standards that will push utilities there to use less fossil fuel for generating electricity. The express reason for the new, tougher anti-emissions regs: combat global warming.
Europol has finally figured out something I wrote about four years ago, the FBI seems to be taking the NSA's place in the "keep quiet and shut up" department, and no one is listening to the White House about data center energy efficiency (or much of anything else, it seems). It's another week in that slapstick world we call government.
Is much expected from the G8 summit in Japan? Not according to the Aussies.
Canada is the first to offer a ransom. The government there will give GM money if GM will keep Canadians employed.
How much green for greentech in the "stimulus" bill that looks to be headed to law? I have not read the whole 1400 pages and I will not use the energy it would take to do so.
Howard Schmidt, the man in charge of modernizing and guarding the nation's cyberspace, talks shop at Bloomberg's 2012 Cybersecurity Conference.