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...Reduces dependence on foreign oil. Natural gas is cleanest fossil fuel...
...NATURAL GAS The cleanest fossil fuel, natural gas, has risen in use dramatically in the past decade. If Bush reversed himself and imposed limits on CO2 emissions, gas would be even more attractive to utilities that will need to comply
...creeping fear of unaffordable power has President George W. Bush looking for a backup policy generator as he prepares to unveil an energy program this week that is very fossil-fuel friendly--and simpatico with his and Vice President Dick Cheney's long ties to Big Oil. Bush says his policy, which stresses greater production over conservation, is a long-term solution...
...Grosse Pointe, Mich., and the working-class Lebanese kid from Melbourne, Australia, have laid out an interesting blueprint for change and done some things that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. They have broken ranks with other U.S. automakers. Last summer, for instance, Nasser announced that fuel mileage for all Ford trucks would be increased 25%, or 5 m.p.g., by 2005 (it is now about 20.5), well ahead of the government mandate that the other big companies are following. And they have gone to great lengths to promote a corporate culture that, as Nasser says, "looks...
...company's latest report, released last week, confirmed that position. Last month the automaker announced it would join with environmental groups (and Toyota and Honda) in a call for consumer tax credits to help subsidize sales of high-mileage hybrid-fuel vehicles, which are still costly to produce. In any case, Ford will begin selling a hybrid-fuel version of its small SUV, the Escape, in 2003. Not to be outdone, General Motors says it will have its fleet of zero-emissions buses on the roads soon. "Two years ago, people couldn't wait to distance themselves from what...