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The Washington Post opinion page editor, Fred Hiatt, has made strong statements about the strength and quality of fact-checking for the columnists within his pages.
told by editorial page editor Fred Hiatt — that multiple editors had checked Will’s sources,
we don’t have lax standards for accuracy … in general, we do careful fact checking.

Despite these [...]

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Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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A brief discussion about the economic imperatives for greening the nation’s taxi fleets. But, first, acronym definition:

CtB: Cost to Buy: acquisition price, how much to purchase something
CtO: Cost to Own: total ownership costs, from purchase through operating to disposal

Quite simply, moving our collective mindset from CtB to CtO is a societal imperative.
But, to question [...]

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Newsweek magazine has published a hagiography of GM Vice Chair Bob Lutz.  This one-pager, Bob Lutz: The Man Who Revived the Electric Car, focusing on his role in resuscitating the electric car after GM’s efforts to kill the electric car.  The 75-year Lutz is given the last word as to his vision.
Detroit’s horsepower jockey insists [...]

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AFS Trinity, a leading company in flywheel and other power storage systems, has just announced a 150 mile per gallon plug-in-hybrid variant of a Saturn VUE.  
“Extreme Hybrids™ don’t need high priced technology and don’t require new or expensive fuels, such as hydrogen, which, according to Argonne National Labs, will cost twice as much as gasoline [...]

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Just a few days ago, the first domestically developed and produced Chinese hybrid vehicle rolled off the assembly line. 
 ”It took us 6 years to develop this hybrid and it marks the beginning of mass production of hybrid vehicles at our company today,” said Xu Liuping, the president of Changan Automobile at a celebration ceremony.
The Jiexun is [...]

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Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]

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The multi-million dollar hydrogen concept cars getting, well, a little boring to me. Wonderful EcoGeek material but, well, not something I expect to be a common part of the driving scene within my lifetime (and I don’t plan on dying tomorrow).
The Ford Airstream, however, goes beyond hydrogen to some interesting features:
Hat to DSnodgrass at Celsias [...]

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Perhaps we need to rub our eyes, but it looks like there are outbreaks of bipartisan sanity emerging on energy issues.  A just introduced bill to promote plug-in hybrids is a poster child of sane policy concepts.
From co-sponsor Orrin Hatch (R-Utah):
“With the rapid industrialization of countries like India and China, the demand for gasoline is [...]

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