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(CNN) Does the country need a big gas tax? |
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CNN |
| Even though energy prices are cheap, many say a straight-up tax on oil and coal is the best way to stop global warming and move the country to cleaner fuels. |
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(NYT) As Ethanol Options Grow, So Does Debate Over Them |
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New York Times |
| Even as ethanol businesses make tentative inroads into the region, there are doubts about the industry’s future. Many producers and policymakers say that the way ethanol is made today is unsustainable because corn is so energy intensive to produce. The use of corn-based fuel has sparked a debate over whether crops that could feed people should be used to fuel machines. In response, many scientists and companies — with strong encouragement from the federal government — are searching for other, nonedible sources of ethanol, also known as cellulosic ethanol. |
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(NYT) Economy Shifts, and the Ethanol Industry Reels |
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New York Times |
| As producers of ethanol navigate a triple whammy of falling prices for their product, credit woes and volatile costs for the corn from which ethanol is made, an economic version of “Survivor” is playing out in the industry. |
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(NYT) Honesty About Ethanol |
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New York Times |
| One of the 2007 energy bill’s most ambitious provisions — the ethanol mandate — has turned out to be its most troublesome. The provision would boost ethanol production from 7-plus billion gallons today to 36 billion gallons by 2022. In practical terms, this means doubling the production of corn ethanol until advanced forms of ethanol and other biofuels kick in. |
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(NYT) The Gas Tax |
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New York Times |
| Americans did not buy enormous gas guzzlers just because Detroit marketed them relentlessly. They bought them because they wanted big cars — and because gas was cheap. If gas stays cheap, Americans would be less inclined to squeeze their families into a lithe fuel-efficient alternative. |
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(Time) Study: Cleaner Air Adds 5 Months to US Life Span |
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Time Magazine |
| Cleaner air over the past two decades has added nearly five months to average life expectancy in the United States, according to a federally funded study. Researchers said it is the first study to show that reducing air pollution translates into longer lives. Between 1978 and 2001, Americans' average life span increased almost three years to 77, and as much as 4.8 months of that can be attributed to cleaner air, researchers from Brigham Young University and Harvard School of Public Health reported. |
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(WP) Faster Climate Change Feared |
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Washington Post |
| The United States faces the possibility of much more rapid climate change by the end of the century than previous studies have suggested, according to a new report led by the U.S. Geological Survey. |
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(WP) Gore Urges Cap on Carbon Emissions, Global Climate Pact |
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Washington Post |
| Former vice president Al Gore urged lawmakers yesterday to adopt a binding carbon cap and push for a new international climate pact by the end of this year in order to avert catastrophic global warming. Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gore delivered a short slide show that amounted to an update of his Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," lecturing some of his former colleagues that even if the world halted greenhouse gas emissions now, the world could experience a temperature rise of 2.5 to 7.5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. |
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(WP) Obama Announces New Energy, Environmental Policies |
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Washington Post |
| President Obama today promised new U.S. leadership in the fight against global warming as he announced a series of steps aimed at making American cars more fuel efficient and reducing greenhouse gases, including a directive to the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider granting California and other states waivers to set their own strict regulations on auto emissions. |
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Ethanol leads to recall of some Lexus models |
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AutoBlogGreen |
| Ethanol fuel with low moisture content has the potential to corrode the inside of the fuel delivery pipes in some Lexus vehicles, including GS300/350, IS250/350, and LS460/460L models from 2006, 2007 and 2008 model years. The problem, which can create a pinhole leak in the pipes, has caused Lexus to announce a safety recall of about 214,500 vehicles. |
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GM HCCI Engine Can Operate at Idle |
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AutoblogGreen / General Motors |
| General Motors demonstrated its progress on developing a future advanced engine technology for consumers that squeezes more miles per gallon of gas and reduces emissions. GM engineers have brought the advanced combustion technology from the laboratory to the test track and, now, to the highway in a driveable concept vehicle – a Saturn Aura sedan equipped with homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI). |
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