Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
A big-tent coalition of groups running the gamut from the National Association of Realtors to the American Public Health Association to NRDC unveiled a new platform for federal transportation policy today as part of the Transportation for America Campaign. Check out...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
Gas taxes, federal and state, are key revenue sources for public investments in transportation infrastructure and operations. At the federal level, the gas tax has been around since 1932, although it wasn't actually made exclusively available for transportation purposes until...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
As I’ve written about before, confronting the scale of our oil addiction – 21 million barrels consumed daily, and increasing – requires many steps. Congress and the President signed an energy bill that makes a dent via boosts in...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Lord Richard Branson just made a exciting announcement: Virgin Atlantic plans to test a jet plane running on biofuels early next year. Frankly, this matters more than developments that we've seen in the vehicles market, where companies like GM are...continued→
Posted by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil
As the media picks up on the remarkable events in the Senate earlier tonight, it's worth putting this vote in context. The fuel economy program was put in place in 1975, in reaction to the oil embargoes that many still...continued→
