Archive for Energy

June 2008

6/26: Obama, Ethanol, and the "New Metropolitan Reality" 17

6/06: National Transit Union Proposes a Smart Fuel Subsidy 28

6/05: "My Next Vehicle Will Be a Bicycle" 16

6/05: Back in the Saddle? 8

May 2008

5/28: Joe Lieberman: Did Someone Say "High Gas Prices"? 23

5/27: National Poll: Americans Expect Gas Prices to Rise More 20

5/23: Alabama Students Walk to School to Protest Gas Prices 17

5/15: Q Poll Finds Americans Opposed to Gas Tax "Holiday" 2

5/14: Electeds Go to the Mat for Cheap Gas 7

5/08: Mixed Messages From Critic of NY Gas Tax Holiday 8

5/07: Delaware Senator Dares to Utter the Word "Transit" 18

5/07: Clinton Camp May Rethink Gas Tax Strategy 13

5/06: Cartoon Tuesday: "Holiday" 7

5/05: Sign a Petition to Clinton and McCain at GasTaxScam.com 2

5/02: How Much Would You Actually Save With a Gas Tax "Holiday"? 21

April 2008

4/23: "Crisis" Mode AAA Urges Panicked Drivers to Take Transit 36

February 2008

2/27: The Definition of Automobile Dependence 8

2/25: Is Big Environment Ready to Say America Is Hooked on Cars? 12

2/12: London Imposes $50 Guzzler Fee on SUVs and Lux Roadsters 12

January 2008

1/22: Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah? 54

November 2007

11/19: Wall Street Journal Declares Peak Oil No Longer a "Fringe" Idea 11

11/13: Green Subways: An Answer Blowing in the Wind? 7

October 2007

10/15: The MTA is Testing Battery-Powered Buses 6

10/08: The World's Greenest, Most Livable Cities 9

September 2007

9/19: The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid 9

9/15: Conference: Energy: The 1st Challenge of the 21st Century 0

9/13: World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week 2

August 2007

8/30: Brit's Liberal Dems Want to Ban Cars Fueled By Gasoline 2

8/29: Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade 7

8/23: Delivering the Goods to a Growing New York 7

8/15: Weiner on the Environment: Big Talk, Small Stick 52

8/13: More on Rep. Patrick McHenry 3

8/09: Congressman Ridicules Bikes as "19th Century Solution" 75

July 2007

7/27: Dying to Get to Work 11

7/25: Americans Vote for Fuel Efficiency. Why Do They Buy Guzzlers? 18

7/06: The Suburbanist Paradox 13

7/06: Times Says: We Must Pay More for Fossil Fuels 2

7/02: How US Energy Emissions Compare (It's Not Pretty) 2

June 2007

6/27: Addicted To Oil: Ranking States’ Vulnerability 3

6/25: Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet 8

6/21: Albany Fiddles Over Congestion Pricing... 3

6/18: An Old Car Interred 19

6/14: Quebec Approves Carbon Tax on Fuels to Cut Greenhouse Gases 5

6/12: Rising Gas Prices Hurt Truck Sales 0

6/07: Chicago Alley Initiative Shows How to Make Streets Greener 0

May 2007

5/22: Hail the Yassky Cab: All NYC Taxis to be Hybrid by 2012 20

5/16: The Clock is Ticking for PlaNYC 1

5/14: PlanNYC's Public Political Push Starts Today 1

5/10: There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To 4

April 2007

4/25: PlaNYC: Foster the Market For Renewable Energy 9

4/20: The Ultimate System: Free Mass Transit and Congestion Pricing 15

4/17: In the East River, Verdant Power Sleeps With the Fishes 14

4/13: Find Yourself a City to Live In 8

March 2007

3/23: NYC School Construction and Maintenance Going Green 5

3/22: Ethanol's Growing List of Enemies 3

3/14: Why Is Saudi Arabia's Oil Production Down? 11

3/08: "People Act as Though the Hybrid Could Solve All Our Problems" 4

3/07: Ethanol: Feed a Person for a Year or Fill Up an SUV? 7

3/07: The Greening of the Times 0

3/06: CO2 from Shipping Twice as Much as Airlines 13

February 2007

2/28: Schumer & Clinton Backing Upstate NIMBY's Against Wind Power 8

2/28: Green Collar Jobs for Urban America 0

2/23: New York Could be a Global Leader in Alternative Energy 6

2/23: Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities 0

2/20: PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable? 4

2/16: PBS to America: Fight Global Warming, Drive an SUV 11

December 2006

12/22: New German Community Models Car-Free Living 2

12/18: Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread 15

12/12: Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda 37

12/12: Parochial Thinking Amid Ominous Signs 1

12/12: Bloomberg: "New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge" 29

November 2006

11/29: Hydrogen: Not as Green as it Seems 5

11/20: Electrification of the Region's Rail 15

11/02: Eat More Carbohydrates, Burn More Hydrocarbons 1

October 2006

10/17: The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families 8

10/04: Can Sprawl Be Beneficial? 19

10/02: Pricing for Sustainability 6

September 2006

9/14: City Council Votes for Cheap Gas and More Parking 7

9/13: Bill Clinton's Reading List: Richard Heinberg 2

9/06: Richard Heinberg: Saudi Oil Supply May be Crashing 10

9/01: Cars, Ethanol and Patriotism 13

August 2006

8/30: How Do We 'Fuel' the Future? 0

8/23: The True Cost of Gasoline, and What to Do About Energy 10

8/07: Bloomberg on Oil Dependence: Punditry or Policy? 1

July 2006

7/24: Pseudo-Environmental Hummers 9

7/07: Sierra Club Energy Forum 0

June 2006

6/28: Charles Komanoff's "Fuel Tax Magic" 0