“Drill-baby-drill” has been mantra for the fossil fuel interests ever since Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin introduced that chant to the political mainstream in 2008. Trump has taken up the cause with zeal, promising that if the US just produced enough oil for its own needs, we would be free …
At a recent county commissioners’ meeting in Montezuma County, Colorado (Cortez), the issuance of a permit for a solar farm was considered. Ordinarily, the heavily agricultural county would be strongly receptive to allowing a farmer to do whatever they chose with their land. However in this case, agricultural interests were …
This essay is about the political football that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have become. This is NOT a criticism of that class of vehicles; PHEVs have an important role to play. There is a best-car choice for every owner, and in my case it has often included a plug-in; …
by Gordon Rodda and Deborah Lycan HEV, PHEV, BEV, they are all EVs, right? Wrong. The names are confusing, and it can be argued that they are meant to be; there is money to be made in keeping you confused about them. In the last couple of years, the industry …
The House-passed budget bill makes a number of substantive EV policy changes, which will set back the adoption of EVs. This has been expected and will understandably have negative effects on climate change, accelerating the frequency and severity of natural disasters, air pollution, health, home insurance costs, endangerment of species, …
