EcoDriving can extract the highest mileage out of every single vehicle, regardless of size or age, so it gives us the opportunity to have an impact on our nation's entire fleet of 240 million automobiles.
TreeHugger.com | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green
5 Fuel-Saving Technologies In the long run, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is on the way out and electric motors are on the way in, but ICEs hav...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
I can't believe John McCain's entire energy policy is improved light bulbs! This is so unbecoming of a presidential candidate -- he needs to have big and bold ideas, like more drilling.
Jon Soltz | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Maybe John McCain wants to mock the idea of simple ways we can use less oil and protect America and our troops, while blocking efforts to get off Middle East oil, but we take it dead seriously.
Graham Hill | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green
Do you find yourself using a big car or truck when something smaller would do the job? Would you book an electric bike or golf cart or folding bike to cut your carbon footprint?
Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green
If we're truly interested in creating a sustainable transportation network, then we need to envision a future where our limited supply of biofuels is used for much more efficient modes of transportation.
Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
Our favorite graph, which demonstrates that almost all of our petroleum is used for transportation. Benjamin J. Turon writes an op-ed in the Schene...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green
Home foreclosures could affect voting rolls, Judge blocks coal plant due to global warming, Japan automakers control 34.7 percent of U.S. market, and U.S. exports to Iran grew tenfold under Bush.
David Hall | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
Years ago, in a time of plentiful cheap food, energy and fuel, a green lifestyle was seen as a superfluous luxury. That was then, this is now.
Collin Dunn | Posted 07.03.2008 | Green
The Wal-Mart/Sam's Club new square milk jug is designed to improve space efficiency, reduce waste, and cut costs -- but are proving tricky for some customers, who are having trouble pouring the milk without spilling some of it.
Jay Walljasper | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
Under the weight of gasoline prices, along with increased costs for heating and cooling suburban homes, today's affluent subdivisions might become tomorrow's slums.
AP | MIN LEE | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
HONG KONG — Actor Jackie Chan says his Segway dealership here is doing well, though costs are high because the manufacturer won't let him assemb...
Lloyd Garver | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
New "green" bio-diesel fuel might cause more problems for the environment than bad old gasoline. It's all getting very confusing.
Bloomberg Via NYT | Posted 01.03.2008 | Business
DaimlerChrysler paid a $30 million fine in 2007, the most ever by an automaker, for failing to meet federal fuel-efficiency standards, according to th...
Judy Dugan | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
Oil companies don't have to pay a penny or change any of their ways, but at least we consumers will do our part, being required to switch to low-energy lightbulbs by 2012.
Wall Street Journal | MIKE SPECTOR and CHRISTOPHER CONKEY | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business
The Bush administration blocked California's plan to put tighter limits on automobile tailpipe emissions, handing a victory to the auto industry on th...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill t...
Washington Post | Steven Mufson and Jonathan Weisman | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes this morning to close debate on the energy bill passed by the House yesterday, setting the scene for a ...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
The House approved the first increase in federal automobile fuel efficiency requirements in three decades Thursday as part of an energy bill that also...
Carl Pope | Posted 12.03.2007 | Home
For the first time in more than 30 years, both houses of Congress are poised to pass legislation that would increase fuel efficiency from cars, trucks...
New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER and MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 12.01.2007 | Business
Congressional negotiators reached a deal late Friday on energy legislation that would force American automakers to improve the fuel efficiency of thei...
Ben Jervey | Posted 11.24.2007 | Business
Toyota's been rather embroiled of late in a bit of controversy over their stance on federal fuel economy standards.
Wall Street Journal | Mike Spector | Posted 11.14.2007 | Business
Touting a hydrogen-powered Chevrolet, a Lincoln with a super-efficient gasoline engine and a hybrid Dodge, car makers plan to use the Los Angeles auto...
Laurie David | Posted 10.09.2007 | Business
Toyota is careening toward becoming the most hypocritical car company on the planet by aggressively opposing desperately needed higher U.S. fuel economy standards.
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
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As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Charley Territo | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green