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GM Flag Waving: Read the Fine Print First

July 31, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
autoindustry, detroit, economy, fueleconomy, globalwarming pollution, GM, jobs

General Motors posted new earnings numbers this morning to mostly rosy headlines. Drudge Report is running the story under the banner "USA! USA! GM posts $891-million profit…" But all is not well for the big automaker, which lost its status...continued

High Above it All

June 20, 2007

Posted by Jon Coifman in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
fueleconomy, SUVs

To move a piece of furniture last night, I borrowed a posh SUV of a fashionable Swedish make popular with the graduate degree crowd here in Washington. I have grown to loathe Ikea, but that's a story for another time....continued