Archive for June, 2011
Recommended Reading: This Week’s Politico
Politico this week boasts a special section entitled “What’s next for energy?”
The issue comes after the ethanol industry suffered serious setbacks at the hands of the Senate on Friday.
Check out the special section for the latest on ARPA-E, budget cuts, editorials from Members of Congress and a Q & A with the one and only T. Boone. He’s got some great lines, the kind that kinda roll of the Texan tongue. Referring to “somebody who keeps getting out in front,” he says, “the higher the monkey climbs a tree, the more people can see his ass.”
Asked if he was president long enough to make just one executive decision, his move would be: “No more OPEC oil — and mean it.”
I can see T. Boone’s presidential slogan now: “Don’t mess with the U.S.”
As if the Nissan Leaf wasn’t already hot enough…
The all-electric car has found a new spokesman for its product in uber-sexy environmentalist Ryan Reynolds.
Reynolds stars in the Green Lantern, which opens in theaters this Friday. In the film, he sports a seemingly superhuman six-pack and rippling muscles. So perhaps unsurprisingly, the actor has also joined Nissan’s Innovation for Endurance fitness campaign to encourage active living.
Motor City, Planet Earth. Or where do cars come from?
Globalization has forever changed manufacturing. And like so many of today’s industries, the car business has become increasingly segmented, with parts for a single OEM hailing from here, there and everywhere.
ABC News proved that out in a recent report on job creation in the auto industry.
Turns out 20 U.S. jobs are created for every 100 Toyota Camrys sold, while 13 U.S. jobs are created for every 100 Ford Escapes sold.
So before you drape that F-150 with an American flag, you might want to check your patriotism here. ABC has a calculator to show you precisely how much of your ride was “made in America.”
http://tinyurl.com/66xdgf6
First Woman to head the NYTimes
Decades after Katharine Graham led The Washington Post amid the old boy’s club of the newspaper world, Jill Abramson becomes the first woman to helm the Grey Lady in its 160-year history.
http://tinyurl.com/5vptg6u
Don’t want a gas tax? How ’bout taxing by the mile?
There’s talk about taxing drivers by the mile, according to AOL news.
Read on to learn about the debate and why it has EV proponents riled up.
http://tinyurl.com/3qltn62
