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Advertisements [ ? ] Our Captains of Industry. "Get the govt off our backs! Unless they're climbing up on our backs to fix us up with a bailout." The Big 3 Detroit-based automakers are seeking about $25 billion in federal loans as they struggle to ride out a steep downturn in U.S. auto sales, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Lobbyists for the ...

Advertisements [ ? ] "The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hybrids or flex fuels. No half measures. The internal combustion engine had to be retired. The future was in electric cars." <> "Agassi dealt with the battery issue by simply swatting it away. ...

Advertisements [ ? ] NYMEX Oil Complex Soars as Supply Rhetoric Forces Shorts from Market August 21, 2008 11:36:AM ET By John Troland, Tom Waterman Houston, TX August 21, 2008 11:36 AM ET The October NYMEX crude and September gasoline and heating oil contracts have continued their overnight climb on renewed rhetoric that supplies are again in danger...

Advertisements [ ? ] http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story ?id=5... by Dr. Paula Doe, Contributing Editor, Solid-State Technology While startups attract the clean tech venture capital millions in the U.S. for new kinds of thin-film solar technologies, some big established players in Japan are also putting significant money into major new ...

Advertisements [ ? ] Polar bear sightings stir climate debate Wild polar bear Subhankar Banerjee / Associated Press In a 2003 photo, a polar bear roams its territory in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The polar bear has been listed as a threatened species, largely because global warming is causing its habitat to deteriorate. Environmentalists say ...

Advertisements [ ? ] KANSAS CITY, Mo. - After missing out on summer vacations because of high fuel prices and a weakening economy, many Americans won't be going anywhere over the Labor Day weekend either. The number of people traveling 50 miles or more will drop by 0.9 percent this Labor Day weekend compared with last year, the biggest drop in at least eight ...

Advertisements [ ? ] Eco-homes: Less than zero Once the existing house has been made as green as possible, what is an eco-family to do? For the Laidlays there was only one answer: build a zero carbon house from scratch.Sharada and Cleland Laidlay, and their children Roshan, 16, and Kiran, 14, have drawn up a scheme with their architect LCE for a zero ...

Advertisements [ ? ] Why T. Boone Pickens' 'Clean Energy' Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme By Scott Thill, AlterNet. Posted August 21, 2008. The controversial oil magnate has made headlines for a supposed conversion to cleaner energy, but there's ample reason to be suspicious. "If you are going out of business, you don't go down with the ship, you get another ...

Advertisements [ ? ] EDIT At 8 p.m. Thursday, Fay's top sustained winds were still estimated at 60 mph, and bands of heavy rain extended up the coast into Georgia. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center warned of possible tornadoes and up to 10 inches of rainfall. The storm reportedly claimed the lives of two swimmers Thursday afternoon. A 21-year-old ...

Advertisements [ ? ] If I were an ungenerous man, I might lambaste the wind industry for their inexcusable cost overruns and backpedaling on energy production. But I strive to be generous. Instead I will point out that this is probably a combination of receding horizons, and the inevitable difficulties that come with actually producing energy in large ...