The administration unveiled its ‘sweeping’ changes to fuel efficiency standards: The Bush administration’s long-awaited plan to overhaul fuel economy regulations was released yesterday, promising to save gasoline by requiring modest improvements in the performance of sport utility vehicles and other trucks. But the proposal was swiftly condemned by environmental groups and other critics, who said …
Earth Hour or Whatever It Was
It goes without saying that I think the Red State response to Earth Hour was ridiculous, and I have spent the last few days having my email bombarded by A.C. Kleinheider about whether or not Al Gore left his lights on or not, but what I really don’t understand is why they think this is …
Why?
I think I disagree with Obama on this one: The struggling auto industry was thrust into the middle of a political standoff between the White House and Democrats on Monday as President-elect Barack Obama urged President Bush in a meeting at the White House to support immediate emergency aid. Mr. Bush indicated at the meeting …
Long Overdue
This is a good change: The Ford Motor Company, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, is about to drastically alter its focus to building more small cars. The struggling automaker, reacting to what it sees as a rapid and permanent shift in …
Drilling for Stupidity and Hitting a Gusher: The Painful Inanity of Chris Matthews
Yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: With gas moving up towards five bucks a gallon, Chrystia, do you think that the voters of the United States, if they had a plebiscite and everybody got to vote, wouldn‘t vote right now to open up the Arctic wilderness, wouldn‘t vote right now for off-shore if it …
Time To Commission Another Study
Via Carpetbagger, we now know the conclusions of a study commissioned by the administration to resolve lingering discrepancies between upper-atmosphere and lower-atmosphere temperature trends. This development should prove particularly important because longstanding disagreement betweent the two datasets has given climate skeptics a relatively rational basis for dismissing the question of change altogether. The data no …
Detroit’s Downturn
Look for some fuel efficient vehicles coming out of Detroit in the next couple of years: October, which is the start of the new model year, used to be a month for the auto industry to celebrate. This year, it was a month for Detroit to forget. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler held their lowest …