AFVi News Archive - April 2008

04/30/08: Ethanol:  A Bad Rap?, CNBC

04/30/08: Switch to Natural Gas Pays Off for County Transit, Bob Norberg, The Press Democrat

04/30/08: Waste Management to Make Vehicle Fuel From Landfill Gas, Planet Ark

04/30/08: Wyoming’s Air is Getting a Little Thick, Dwayne Meadows, High Country News

04/29/08: Why Automakers Weren’t Screaming Over Café Rules, Sam Abuelsamid, AutoblogGreen

04/29/08: The Wrong Way to Save on Gas, Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle

04/29/08: Averting an Energy Crisis, Graham Allison and Robbie Diamond, Boston Globe

04/29/08: Clean Energy Brings Natural Gas to the Golden Gate, BusinessWire

04/29/08: Valley’s Discount Cab Goes Green, Ed Taylor, East Valley Tribune

04/29/08: Making Black Cars Green, Rich Kassel, Gotham Gazzette

04/28/08: Oil May Hit $200 Verleger Says, Robert Tuttle, Blomberg

04/28/08: Ethanol Reduces Food, Fuel Prices, Agweb.com

04/28/08: The U.S. and China are Over a Barrel, Michael Klare, Los Angeles Times

04/28/08: James Woolsey, Hybrid Hawk, Laura Rozen, Mother Jones

04/25/08: Natural Gas Vehicles Hot In Utah, Paul Foy, Associated Press

04/25/08: Consumers Cut Back on Everything but Driving, Aaron Barr, Marketing Daily

04/25/08: Governors Protest Against Federal Emissions Plan, Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times

04/25/08: The Peak Oil Crisis:  The Case for 2008, Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press

04/24/08: Scientists Report Political Interference, Christopher Lee, Washington Post

04/24/08: California’s Patience Running Empty Over Proposed U.S. Fuel Rules, Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee

04/24/08: With First Car, a New Life in China, Keith Bradshear, New York Times

04/24/08: Yale’s Gus Speth Calls for Shift From US Consumer Capitalism, Monica Trauzzi, E&E TV

04/23/08: New CAFÉ Rules Will Create Social Engineering, David Kiley, BusinessWeek

04/23/08: Bush Fuel Economy Rules Swipe at California, Zachary Coile, San Francisco Chronicle

04/23/08: Th!nk City Electric Car Bound for U.S. Market, Edmunds

04/23/08: Light Cars Not Necessarily Unsafe, TechnoRide

04/23/08: The Believer, Kevin Wilson, AutoWeek

04/22/08: Early Target for Fuel Economy Expected, Bill Vlasic, New York Times

04/22/08: Green Goal for City Fleet is Fizzling, Examiner.com

04/22/08: Changing The Current, Steve Mufson, Washington Post

04/21/08: US Hybrid Sales Up 38% in 2007, Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press

04/21/08: A Switch on the Tracks:  Railroads Roar Ahead, Frank Ahrens, Washington Post

04/21/08: UPS Avoids Left Turns to Save Fuel, UPS Press Release

04/21/08: Praj Makes Breakthrough in Ethanol Production, Business Standard

04/21/08: Flex Fuel 2009 Buick Lucerne, Tech News Daily

04/17/08: Natural Gas Holds Promise as Motor Fuel, Times Record News

04/17/08: Carbon Showdown, Wall Street Journal

04/17/08: Warmed Over, Washington Post

04/17/08: A Controversial Fighter in the Climate Change Debate, Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor

04/16/08: Florida is Goal of Energy Proposal, Monica Hatcher, Miami Herald

04/16/08: Bush to Endorse Intermediate Emissions Goal, Dan Eggen, Washington Post

04/16/08: EPA Official Says Bush Decision on Greenhouse Gases Unlikely, mlive.com

04/15/08: Conversation With Michael Klare, Kate Pinnick, Energy Bulletin

04/15/08: Fuel Choices, Food Crises, and Finger Pointing, Andrew Martin, New York Times

04/15/08: NGV America Urges Extension of Alternative Fuel Tax Credits, BusinessWire

04/15/08: San Diego Metro Orders 250 Cummins Engines, Marketwire

04/15/08: Odyne Corporation Awarded NYSERDA Funds, GovCon

04/15/08: $143, 000 Grant to Give School Buses Green Overhaul, Nicolas Zimmerani, Daily Press

04/15/08: Global Warming  Think Tank Created, Post Bulletin

04/14/08: Engineers Focus on Greener Auto Tech, David Shepardson, Detroit News

04/14/08: Revved Up Emissions Rules Hit Resistance, Tom Meersman, Minneapolis Star Tribune

04/14/08: Is Earth Day the New Christmas?, Natalie Zmuda, Advertising Age

04/11/08: Billions of Barrels of Oil May Lie Under Northern Plains, Catrin Einhorn, New York Times

04/11/08: Rising Gas Prices Push Small Businesses to the Brink, Kate O’Sullivan, CFO.com

04/11/08: Key Air Board Member Linked To Car, Oil Firms, Ken Basinger, Los Angeles Times

04/11/08: Yankee Ticket Prices and Fossil Fuels, James Hansen

04/10/08: The First Shortages, Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press

04/10/08: Sucking It Up, Vincent Ryan, CFO Magazine

04/10/08: Going Green, Sean Kilcarr, Fleet Owner

04/10/08: GOP Seeking Single Voice on Climate Issue, Manu Raju, The Hill

04/09/08: Truck Makers Embrace Hybrid Revolution, von Bernard Simon,  Financial Times

04/09/08: Enterprise Rent-a-Car Atlanta Green Expansion, BusinessWire

04/09/08: Pick on the Big Guys, Owen Gutfreund, New York Times

04/09/08: $16 Billion Environmental Lawsuit Tests Chevron, Kelly Hearn, Christian Science Monitor

04/08/08: Long Green, Michelle Hopkins, Vancouver Lifestyles Magazine

04/08/08: Sales of Ethanol Burning Cars Up 10%, Consumer Affairs

04/08/08: U.S. Carmakers Try To Repeat Green Halo of Prius, Karen Wutkowski, Reuters

04/08/08: Climate Change Opportunity, Fred Krupp, Wall Street Journal

04/07/08: Climate Change Debate:  Push Emissions Goals or Technology?, Peter Spotts, Christian Science Monitor

04/07/08: Climate Target is Not Radical Enough, Ed Pilkington, The Guardian

04/07/08: A Foolish Overreaction to Climate Change, Nigel Lawson, Financial Times

04/07/08: Getting All The Carbon Out of Cars, Joseph White, Wall Street Journal

04/04/08: The Greenest Automakers, Brian Wingfield, Forbes

04/04/08: Exporting California’s Rule Would Wreck Vehicles, William Noack, Detroit News

04/04/08: Minnesotans Can Have Trucks and Clean Air, Too, Editorial, Post Bulletin

04/04/08: First Things First, Dave Cohen, ASPO USA

04/03/08: Carmakers Fight Fuel Rules State by State, David Shepardson, Detroit News

04/03/08: California, 17 Other States Sue EPA Over Greenhouse Gases, Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee

04/03/08: GM Plans 1000 Fuel Cell Cars in California, Reuters

04/03/08: Converging Environmental Crises, Ohio State University

04/02/08: Ignoring the Supreme Court, Editorial, Washington Post

04/02/08: Smaller US Corn Crop Renews Food/Fuel Debate, Planet Ark

04/02/08: Pumping Up Hydrogen Cars, Katie Mercks, Detroit Free Press

04/02/08: New Details About Honda’s Next Hybrid, TechnoRide

04/02/08: Pump Pain, Editorial, The Patriot-News

04/01/08: The Clean Energy Scam, Michael Grunwald, Time

04/01/08: EPIC Responds to Time Article, Western Farmer Stockman

04/01/08: 7 Energy Efficiency Myths Debunked, Robert Bryce, Popular Mechanics

04/01/08: Oil Execs To Take Heat From US Lawmakers Tuesday, Reuters