Category: ‘ Transportation ’

 

Making Drivers Happy

A recent Newsweek article about Toyota’s recalls discussed Toyota’s history in the United States.  In describing the history of its sales growth in the 1980s, the article noted that Toyota's campaign of campy advertisements,...

Boosting biofuels; bothering enviros

Steven Mufson has a good piece in today's WaPo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303804.html?sub=AR) that nicely summarizes the policy debate on mandates for increased biofuels use in the tr...

Looking beyond emissions

Yesterday, an E&E article (subscription required) made reference to a study on greenhouse gas emissions from aviation and marine transportation by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (full report available here).  Several...

Does the Natural Gas Bubble Need to be Popped?

Natural gas is being touted by some at Copenhagen as a relatively low-carbon “bridge” fuel, a life-line to take us through the next few decades until we can depend entirely on renewable and nuclear energy. Proponents, which in...

Brief High Gas Prices Yield No Fuel Economy Gains

Between January 2007 and August 2008 gasoline prices rose more than $2 per gallon. Much discussion was had over the woes of $4 gas. Yet according to a report released this month by the Environmental Protection Agency, real world a...

Still in search of a free lunch

This morning's Environment & Energy Daily has a nice piece on the current gridlock over transportation reauthorization (http://eenews.net/EEDaily/2009/11/19/1/).  Despite a major bridge collapse in Minnesota more than two ye...

Electrification Coalition Launches Roadmap

Yesterday, more than a dozen business leaders representing companies throughout the electric vehicle value chain came together for the launch of the Electrification Roadmap, a sweeping report detailing the dangers of oil dependenc...

Warren Buffett Invests in U.S. Railroads

Investor Warren Buffett yesterday invested $26.6 billion in Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the second-largest U.S. railroad.  He particularly cited that fact that since deregulation, railroads have become a “decent business—an...

The Changing American Motorist

Are American motorists ready for something new? Some signs suggest yes. American drivers used to be loyal to a brand – in 1986, nearly 80% of new car owners bought the brand their household previously owned. Families would re...

How many miles per gallon do we really get?

According to the EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2009, new gasoline-powered cars get approximately 30 miles per gallon in fuel efficiency (Table 59).  Depending on the size of the vehicle (compact, mid-size etc.) the capacity of th...