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WTO and the auto industry bailout

…the next year, either by speeding up the use of funds already approved to develop more fuel-saving technologies and models or by providing a new source of funds. President-elect Barack…

Maybe Not This Time…

…the $25 billion loan program for fuel-efficient vehicles approved by Congress in September and administered by the Energy Department. I guess that’s why Ford plans to build more trucks. But…

Customer preference is not transparency?

…to every purchase.” “I am making the increase completely transparent to the customer,” Mr. Zabar told CBS, “to call the public’s attention to how much fuel is being used in…

Saying It All

…“it also might have forced some deep introspection at Ford and G.M. and might have changed their attitude toward fuel efficiency and manufacturing quality.” Some of the bailout’s opponents —…

The US economy is in a funk

…the initial investment in fueling stations and quickly achieving a critical mass of vehicles on the road to sustain them. Japan, Korea, India and China have promoted their domestic vehicle…

Prognostications January to August

…The report may intensify the debate between those Fed policy makers that forecast inflation will slow and those concerned that price pressures will accelerate. Increases beyond food and fuel, including…

Evening News Report: Angry Bears Testify on Capitol Hill

…areas in the US, not even considering worldwide potential. There are PLENTY of hydrocarbons available to fuel civilization, almost to the point that investment or technological breakthroughs would release a…

What’s dumb about a windfall profits tax?

…oppose a carbon tax so fiercely. Also actual investment in alternative fuels now has the cost that production of alternative fuels causes the price of oil to decline. The threat…

Behavior reveals…oil company priorities

…state. It backed out of a deal with Qatar last year to turn natural gas into diesel fuel. It spends nothing on production or development of renewable energy. … Unlike…