Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
While last summer's gas price spikes have finally faded in the rearview mirror, I was reminded this morning of how quickly things can change. At my local station, gas is creeping up to $2.62 per gallon. Nationally, in the last 20...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
"If you do what you've always done, you get what you've always gotten." -Tony Robbins When you think about transportation issues, what's the first thing that comes to mind? High gas prices and troubled bridges. There was the "bridge to...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
I'm sick of it.There's a new campaign with a bumper sticker slogan that's attracting a lot of attention because it offers easy solutions to our oil-addiction woes. You may have seen it: Drill here, drill now, pay less. Sheer deception....continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Hear that sound? It's the shattering of records. Oil prices rose to nearly $140 per barrel in the oil futures market, driving the national average gas price to $4 a gallon for the first time, hitting those with lower incomes...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
A New York City blog saw me quoted in the Wall Street Journal on February 5th talking about the need to face pollution caused by ever-increasing driving of our cars and trucks.As I told the reporter, there is growing interest...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Oil prices hit $100 a barrel again yesterday due to market jitters, a move that will translate into more pain for struggling consumers. This is in part due to unfortunate, hard-to-control factors, notably supply cutoff threats from Hugo Chavez and...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
"A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground." - Anonymous An old claim has been brought to my attention again. Hybrids pollute more than Hummers because of one component: The battery. Not believable, and definitely not true! The best...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Robert F. Kennedy once asked "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"Now Toyota has audaciously -- and expensively -- echoed him in a new ad campaign touting their...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
The boost of fuel economy standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020 got another endorsement today, this time from the popular mayor of New York City, Democrat-turned-Republican Michael Bloomberg. The New York Times reports on the speech he gave...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Think the world's largest automaker is feeling the heat yet?NRDC joined eight other groups in launching a big campaign to persuade Toyota to shift their position on policy by splitting from GM and others who oppose a reasonable Senate bill...continued→
