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Last Thursday, both the House and the Senate introduced bi-partisan legislation to advance the large-scale deployment of electric vehicles around the United States. The members of Congress agreed that electrification of light-duty...
Posted Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 9:53 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Security, Legislation, Transportation
After a period of bullish, ebullient reporting on China’s economic growth amid a world still mired in recession, China hasn’t had a great week in the press. The Shanghai stock market is at an 8-month low, the property market b...
Posted Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at 11:27 am | Filed in: Electrification, Oil Dependence, Transportation
While we may learn more later today, it seem that the prospects of Congress passing climate change legislation, probably a long shot to begin with, have become even dimmer. With what appears to be Senator’s Graham’s withdr...
Posted Monday, April 26th, 2010 at 8:45 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Security, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
This morning's ClimateWire (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2010/04/08/8/;subscription required) reports on a study released today by the Electrification Coalition (a partner organization of Securing America's Future Energy) co...
Posted Thursday, April 8th, 2010 at 6:26 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
In talking about the reasons to support electrification of the short-haul transportation system, we frequently hear advocates explain how it will reduce dependence on oil by diversifying our fuel supply, how it is cleaner than gas...
Posted Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at 11:45 am | Filed in: Electrification, Transportation
Every six years Congress must pass a reauthorization bill to set national transportation policy, identifying spending priorities for Department of Transportation programs like the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transi...
Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Legislation, Transportation
A high ranking official at the Department of Energy (DOE) recently commented that given the importance that tax policy plays in our energy policy, the staff at DOE was working to build a relationship between Secretary Chu and Secr...
Posted Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 10:17 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Legislation, Transportation
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,...
Posted Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 2:16 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Yesterday the Obama administration released its 2011 budget proposal, and as yesterday’s EPIC blog anticipated, much-needed support for new nuclear power plants is requested. There is a lot more on energy in the budget, however,...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 10:09 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Transportation
