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While other automakers are closing plants in the U.S., Kia, which is controlled by South Korea's Hyundai Automotive Group, is preparing to open a brand-new assembly plant in West Point, Ga., southwest of Atlanta. The $1.2 billion, 2.2 million-sq.-ft. plant will begin producing Kia vehicles for the retail market next month. Up until now, Kia had imported 100% of its vehicles. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Georgia plant is also scheduled to get engines from a motor plant Hyundai opened last year near Montgomery, Ala. In fact, the West Point site was chosen by Kia in part because of its proximity to Hyundai's manufacturing facility, creating efficiencies for both companies as well as their suppliers, notes Kia spokesman Alex Fedorak. Suppliers are expected to create as many as 7,500 jobs in an area hard hit by the shutdown of local textile mills...
...point out that despite increasing awareness of our dependence on oil, energy still feels like a distant, impersonal issue to a lot of us. Why do you think that is? The media measures America's energy crisis in terms of megawatts and barrels of oil and pounds of carbon dioxide. This cold, abstract, technical problem is so emotionally immediate in our lives, and we don't tend to recognize that - it's almost too obvious. I spent 10 years or so reporting on energy and the environment: criticizing, analyzing, examining our failure to act on a federal level. And then...
...find that they are the source of so many of our freedoms, so much of our power. And many of those industries are now becoming the source of a lot of the alternatives that will replace them. This shrill, preachy, bad-guy, good-guy stuff really misses the point. Energy made us great long before it made us vulnerable. Clearly there have been severe unintended consequences. We have an obligation to hold ourselves accountable, and there is a certain humility that comes with that. (See pictures of new ways to save energy...
...effect, if it exists, is so tiny that it's not worth pursuing in a significant way. They also question whether such a large trial can be considered as a proof of concept. "Doing a 16,000-person trial, it can't be a proof of concept at that point," says Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. "Would I invest in it? The answer is no. There are other things that are more likely to work, that are better, easier and more straightforward than this vaccine...