skip to main content

Natural Resources Defense Council

Switchboard

Luke Tonachel's Blog

Tags: energyefficiency

Obama Administration Should Strengthen Fuel Economy Standards

January 7, 2009

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
energyefficiency, fueleconomy, fueleconomystandards, gasprices, globalwarming, NHTSA, obama, oil, oildependence, oilsavings, policy, security, vehicles

Today, the Bush Administration announced that it will not issue final fuel economy standards for automobiles, leaving approval to President-elect Obama's administration. This gives the Obama administration an opportunity to move quickly under the nation's clean air and energy laws...continued

Driving Quietly: Testing the Cars of the Future

October 1, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
backtothefuture, CAFE, delorean, electricdrive, electricvehicles, energyefficiency, fuelcell, fueleconomy, fueleconomystandards, futurecars, hydrogen, pluginhybrids, vehicles

Last Friday, I was invited to the Consumer Reports test track to drive some of the cars of the future. It wasn't a typical test scene - no revving engines or the odor of petroleum. With the exception of the...continued

Clean Energy Saves Americans Money

September 17, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
AIG, CAFE, cleanenergy, drilling, energyefficiency, fueleconomy, fueleconomystandards, gasprices, OCS, oil, oildependence, oildrilling, oilsavings, outercontinentalshelf, policy, security, vehicles

Efficiency and other clean energy measures are sound investments for the near and long-term. I realize right now that it's hard to believe that sound investments exist. The financial center at Wall Street seems to be crumbling with the news that...continued

Clean Energy: 9 Million More Barrels Each Day than Drilling

September 8, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
arcticnationalwildliferefuge, CAFE, cleanenergy, drilling, energyefficiency, fueleconomy, fueleconomystandards, gasprices, OCS, oil, oildependence, oildrilling, oilsavings, outercontinentalshelf, policy, security, vehicles

The more I look, the more oil savings I find. My latest investigation continues to cast serious doubt on the advice of drilling advocates by turning up 11 times more oil in 2030 than we could extract from the Arctic...continued