JACK GILLUM and SETH BORENSTEIN checked the facts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show.
A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic [...]
Transit Oriented Development Land Development Regulations Workshop
Please join us for a workshop to discuss the land development regulations being created to implement traditional neighborhood and transit-oriented developments as provided for in CPA-01-09, the soon to be adopted Alachua County Comprehensive Plan amendment that addresses long-term concurrency management solutions.
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009
Place: 111 SW 1st [...]
From Jim Motavalli, former editor of E/The Environmental Magazine:
The Cash for Clunkers program, formally the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), goes into effect today, and if you have an old, gas-guzzling bomb taking up space in the garage you should seriously think of trading it in. What’s in it for you? How about $4,500 that [...]
China is positioning itself to lead the Electric Car revolution, according to this article by Jim Motavalli:
A report by Pike Resarch, “Electric Vehicles on the Grid,” says that by 2015 the global EV charging network market will be at $1.9 billion annually, and China will account for almost half (47.8 percent) of total sales.
via BNET [...]
With the American auto industry in bankruptcy and all those orphaned S.U.V.’s now wards of the state, I felt a need to hit the road – to scoot down the West Coast, away from the broken past.
Car loaded with Springsteen and Sinatra, I took to Interstate 5, the 1,382-mile ribbon of asphalt designated two years [...]
Take that, Florida legislature (which failed to pass improved auto emission standards for our state just weeks ago)!
President Obama will announce as early as Tuesday that he will combine California’s tough new auto-emissions rules with the existing corporate average fuel economy standard to create a single new national standard, the officials said. As a result, [...]
From the RentaBikeNow folks (who, alas, don’t provide service in Gainesville, but remember them when you’re traveling!):
Bike-to-Work is Easier/Cheaper at 200 Bike Shops Nationwide
CHICAGO, IL – April 30, 2009 – Bike-to-Work Week kicks off May 11th and encourages all Americans to-you guessed it- bike to work. This celebration encourages people to try bike commuting; increases [...]
Do you think bikes should share the roadway and rules with cars, trucks and buses? Or would it be nice if our town had pathways for bikes, pedestrians and scooters that kept them out of harm’s way of cars? There were 119 bike fatalities in Florida in 2007 – most in the nation as it [...]
Project P.U.M.A.
Segway unveils the Project P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility & Accessibility) prototype. According to the company, “it’s a working concept of what’s possible when you put together smart minds with the goal of setting a new vision for the future of urban transportation. Were making this announcement today in collaboration with General Motors Corp. in [...]
Dig what’s happening with electric cars – we could do this in Gainesville!
Better Place || Press Room || Videos Detail || Cbs Sunday News Video Making The World A Better Place.
Thanks for this link to Harry Kegelman, impetus for the Solar FIT program in Gainesville!
Automakers worldwide are responding to our energy and environmental crises with lower emission vehicles – Thank you!
Will drivers go for electric cars?
DEARBORN, Mich. Inside the Ford Motor Co., it was called Project M to build a prototype of a totally electric, battery-powered car in just six months. When it was started last summer, the effort [...]
Here’s a cool little item that testifies to the ability of ingenuity – something we’re hoping to see a lot more of in the near future – and the viability of a solar-powered car that covered 32,000 miles around the globe without any petrofuels or toxic emissions. I want one!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_poland_solar_car
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has proposed tightening state auto emissions to help reduce our greenhouse gas contribution that’s causing global warming. “State environmental regulators say that tailpipe pollution accounts for 40 percent of CO2 emissions in Florida.” Do we all recall that the moment he took office, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush canceled the exisiting [...]
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