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Those SUVs are no joke. In the U.S., where 70% of oil is used for transportation, any energy policy is necessarily also an automobile policy. The single key insight of Lovins' report is to focus on the need to reduce the weight of cars (without sacrificing safety) by using advanced...
The great American pacifier is our love of stuff and our ability to fashion our own insular worlds through our staggering selection of things to buy (even if we can't actually afford an SUV). But consumer America is different from political America. In consumer America, diversity of preference is...
such as registration fees and technical tests, but for the moment, it's open road for used cars. - Reported by Tadeusz L. Kucharski Oil Crisis? What Oil Crisis? Rising oil prices? No problem - they won't stifle the current recovery in Europe, the U.S. or Japan. At least that was...
The great American pacifier is our love of stuff and our ability to fashion our own insular worlds through our staggering selection of things to buy (even if we can't actually afford an SUV). But consumer America is different from political America. In consumer America, diversity of preference is...
As part of the campaign to tap into the $9 billion specialty-coffee market, the federation is opening a chain of posh Juan Valdez cafes, complete with porcelain cups, comfy chairs and knock-off Frappuccinos. Two weeks after the Washington cafe opens, the President of Colombia will preside over a...