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Last night at 3 a.m. the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a five-year, $260 billion reauthorization bill. The bill passed 29-24 in a committee of 31 Republicans and 22 Democrats. The bill would fund trans...
Posted Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 2:28 pm | Filed in: Legislation, Transportation
Tuesday night in President Obama’s third State of the Union Address, energy once again took a front seat. The speech included provisions to please both sides of the aisle: continuing to increase offshore drilling, expanded clean...
Posted Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 3:43 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
Today, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) released a new report, Congestion in America: A Growing Challenge to U.S. Energy Security. The report emphasizes the crucial interaction between transportation policy and the challe...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 12:09 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Gas Prices, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
This week, the White House formally announced its tighter fuel-economy standards for cars and light duty trucks. The new standards, a combined 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, will apply to model year 2017 to 2025 vehicles.
The...
Posted Friday, November 18th, 2011 at 12:38 pm | Filed in: Energy Efficiency, Legislation, Transportation
This week, ten New England and Mid-Atlantic States announced the formation of a regional network to promote electric vehicles (EVs). The Northeast Electric Vehicle Network aims to enhance plug-in infrastructure in order to exped...
Posted Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
The costs and benefits of car ownership are difficult to weigh for many urban dwellers. Insurance, maintenance, increasingly high fuel prices, and the price of the vehicle itself are sometimes prohibitively expensive for the inf...
Posted Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 at 12:53 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
Strategies for reducing oil dependence range dramatically in ambition, scope, and effectiveness. When considering the most urgent among them, parking policy reform does not usually spring immediately to mind, but this does not m...
Posted Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 at 9:43 am | Filed in: Automotive, Policy, Transportation
On Tuesday, the Texas Transportation Institute released their latest data set on traffic congestion (the 2011 Urban Mobility Report). In 2010, drivers in U.S. urban areas are estimated to have wasted 1.9 billion gallons of fuel...
Posted Friday, September 30th, 2011 at 9:16 am | Filed in: Automotive, Oil, Transportation
With the Presidential election season kicking off after Labor Day, Congress back in session, the Supercommittee hard at work, the Solyndra debacle in full swing, and temperatures beginning to drop, summer has clearly come to an en...
Posted Friday, September 16th, 2011 at 1:55 pm | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Efficiency, Transportation
Yesterday, the Financial Times released one of its Special Reports entitled The Future of the Car. The lead article, “Visions of mobility in the megacity” shows clearly how the vision for automobiles today and into the futur...
Posted Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 at 1:56 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Automotive, Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
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