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June, 2011
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In a "first for the Senate, and a first for Facebook," Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Member on the Foreign Relations Committee, will announce introduction of his Practical Energy Plan exclusively on Facebook this morning at ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 6:19 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil, Oil Dependence
In Europe, private and non-profit organizations are taking opportunities to support electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure into their own hands. Large UK utility companies are developing competitive products for electric vehicle cha...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 at 11:50 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
It wasn’t only the fact that it was a sparkly new hybrid vehicle; it was the miles per gallon (mpg) gauge on the dashboard that got him hooked. When test driving the recently released hybrid electric Chevrolet Volt, Joe Nocera...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 at 1:24 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electricity, Transportation
President Obama’s decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has sparked controversy amongst participants in the energy debate. This will be combined with the IEA’s release of an a...
Posted Monday, June 27th, 2011 at 11:04 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil
The U.S. military is the single largest industrial consumer of oil in the world. On an annual basis, it consumes approximately 125 million barrels of oil. The vast majority of U.S. aircraft, tanks and vehicles run on petroleum...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 at 6:16 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Policy, Renewables
Facing power shortages, businesses in Shanghai will either be mandated or encouraged to cut energy use this summer. China has recently been faced with power shortages due to supply problems as well as a drought. Anticipating extre...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 at 6:48 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Energy Supply
The 73-27 vote on an amendment to end ethanol subsidies last Thursday in the Senate highlights a bipartisan statement on the urgency to reduce the national debt. This vote comes just two days after a failed vote to repeal subsid...
Posted Monday, June 20th, 2011 at 8:47 am | Filed in: Policy, Renewables, Transportation
As readers of EPIC know, the issue of energy security is not taken lightly. Short of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists, energy security is the top threat facing the nation. SAFE’s team of policy and legislativ...
Posted Friday, June 17th, 2011 at 10:24 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil Dependence
Companies such as GM and Honda, as well as prominent venture capitalists, are broadening their scopes, and looking to startups for innovative technologies in transportation. Plus, new considerations for fuel-economy standards ar...
Posted Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 at 10:49 am | Filed in: Automotive, Transportation
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