Second blizzard howls through Okla., Ark.
Icy blasts tugged temperatures to well below zero in chunks of the South early Thursday, leaving ranchers and farmers fretting about their animals after a winter storm dropped 2 feet of snow on parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma and left at least three peo…
Countdown to Valentine’s Day!
Come on people! Only FOUR days left to do the right thing on Valentine’s Day! What? She insists she’s not interested in a commercialized version of love? And you believe her? Clearly, you don’t read this column on a regular basis. She may tell you that flowers, candy, cards and sweet nothings don’t mean anything […]
Initial Jobless Claims Fall for Week
Initial jobless claims dropped by 36,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Pike Research projects California, New York and Florida to lead US in PEV sales
Pike projections of cumulative light duty plug-in electric vehicle sales, 10 largest MSAs by population, 2011-2017. Click to enlarge.
Pike Research has earlier forecasted the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market at the national level in the US, g…
Should plug-ins drive US energy policy?
The BMW Megacity plug-in vehicle
Are there any foreign oil independence silver bullets?
I used to believe the best hybrid car was a plug-in hybrid. Today, I’m pretty sure the best hybrid doesn’t include a plug, at least for now.
While in theory plug-in…
Pacer Reports 4Q Loss, Full-Year Profit; Sees Intermodal Growth in 2011
Pacer International reported a fourth-quarter loss but said it turned a profit for the full year.
Petition to Bring Ford’s Global Diesel Ranger to America
The fuel efficiency of trucks big and small hasn’t budged in 20 years. Ford is building a fuel-efficient diesel Ranger that can tow a train for the rest of the world, and we must convince them to bring it to America.
The Ford Ranger was first conceiv…
Solazyme and Qantas launch collaboration working toward commercial production of Solajet
Solazyme, Inc., a renewable oils and bioproducts company, has begun a collaboration with Qantas to pursue the potential for commercial production of Solazyme’s microbial-derived aviation fuel, Solajet, in Australia. This represents the first collabor…
Fuel cell company Bing Energy sets up HQ in Florida; partnership with FSU
Bing Energy Inc. (BEI) of Chino, California, a manufacturer of advanced components for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, is moving its headquarters to Tallahassee, Florida. BEI, in collaboration with Florida State University’s (FSU) Dr. Jim P….
GM is Getting Serious About CNG Fleet Vehicles
What you see here is Chevy’s newly-available, 4-tank CNG commercial van. This was news last year, but despite that, this is the first one we’d seen “in the flesh”. So, when one of GM’s marketing reps realized we were ignoring the ZL1 Camaro la…