Category Archives: energy

Motown’s greatest hits

08-11-07 – 10:02:am

GM CEO Rick Wagoner “referring to GM, Ford Motor and Chrysler,” in the FT (Simon+Guerrera, “GM Chief Defends Reliance on SUVs,” 6 June ’08; liberated version here).
Is it the US manufacturers who are stupid? I don’t think so. You have to recognise that the consumer makes the call here … and we are reacting.
So how [...]

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Feb ‘74

08-09-11 – 02:14:am

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National energy stragety

08-07-30 – 02:12:pm

Wald, “Drop in Miles Driven Is Depleting Highway Fund,” NYT (29 July ’08):
Gasoline tax revenue is falling so fast that the federal government may not be able to meet its commitments to states for road projects already under way, the secretary of transportation said Monday. The secretary, Mary E. Peters, said the short-term solution would [...]

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A day late and a dollar short

08-06-03 – 11:51:pm

The NYT:

To put this in perspective, the difference between a [Ford] Focus and an F-250 over five years is $60,000. The annual pretax income of a typical family in this country is also about $60,000. So choosing a F-250 over a Focus is like volunteering for a 20 percent pay cut.

Of course, the same math [...]

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Refractory turn on red: RTOR, CAFE, SUVs, UPS

08-05-28 – 10:59:am

Right-turn-on-red (“RTOR,” in some circles) was introduced nationwide in the mid-1970s as part of a broad, national fuel-saving strategy in response to the “Arab fuel embargo” of 1973–74 (context here). The goal was to save gas by minimizing idling.
In a tribute to former Senator Dale Bumpers, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia said:

The above discourse [...]

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