Tag: JAMES WOOLSEY

Electric cars charging at a charging station. 3d rendering

^{Bruce Agnew
September 10, 2008
PHEVs}

Cascadia Center’s “Beyond Oil” Conference: A Wrap-Up

_{Bruce Agnew
September 10, 2008
PHEVs}

A crowd of 500 key influencers from the private sector, government, academia and the media filled Microsoft’s large meeting facility in Redmond for the Sept. 4-5 conference organized by Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center, “Beyond Oil: Transforming Transportation.” Gripping presentations by former CIA Director James Woolsey, electric car systems entrepreneur Shai Agassi of Better Place, and Microsoft’s sustainability guru Rob Bernard — plus groundbreaking vehicles on display, dozens of other great speakers and several high-level technical workshops – built a heady buzz and energized networking. Among the take-aways U.S. national security is badly compromised by our dependence on foreign oil — we need to develop an even greater sense of urgency around breaking the habit. Electricity and the second-generation bio-fuels now Read More ›

^{Matt Rosenberg
August 18, 2008
Alternative Fuels}

Seattle Region In Violation Of Clean Air Act

_{Matt Rosenberg
August 18, 2008
Alternative Fuels}

This just in, from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Seattle is in violation of the Clean Air Act for the first time since the 1990s. Going over the legal limit for smog over the weekend means officials here will have to start hammering out a plan to improve air quality. That could feature a number of measures to put the brakes on pollution, including requiring reformulated, more expensive gasoline for the region. The final violation of the smog standard needed to push the Emerald City and the Puget Sound region into official violation of the act occurred Saturday afternoon, when a monitor at Enumclaw in south King County went over the official limit. It’s thanks to ozone emissions, which at ground level Read More ›

^{Matt Rosenberg
May 28, 2008
PHEVs}

What’s The Goal, Green Vehicles Or Gas Guzzler Subsidies?

_{Matt Rosenberg
May 28, 2008
PHEVs}

Similar to some other automakers, the vehicles currently on offer from Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep include quite a few, such as SUVs, minivans and pickup trucks, that aren’t really tooled for the motoring future that’s already unfolding. That’s a future with high gas prices that will be staying high, sharply slowing sales of gas-guzzling pick-ups and SUVs, and consumers ready to buy plug-in hybrid electric vehicles by the boatloads if automakers can deliver them with reliable lithium ion batteries and at prices of, say, $30,000 or less. That price point is apparently the aim for GM’s Chevy Volt, a PHEV to watch. So with gas now pushing past $4 a gallon, what does Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep do? Accent their plans for future-facing vehicles? No. They Read More ›

^{Mike Wussow
December 10, 2007
Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuels, Business & Economy, Global Trade, PHEVs}

Domestic Demand Strains Global Oil Market

_{Mike Wussow
December 10, 2007
Alternative Energy, Alternative Fuels, Business & Economy, Global Trade, PHEVs}

It seems the global oil market isn’t immune to at least one law of nature: The apex predator has the most voracious appetite.The New York Times reports that the very oil-exporting countries that are experiencing remarkable domestic economic growth because of the global demand for oil may soon become victims of their own success. Experts say … several of the world’s most important suppliers may need to start importing oil within a decade to power all the new cars, houses and businesses they are buying and creating with their oil wealth. … The report [by Canada-based CIBC World Markets] said “soaring internal rates of oil consumption” in Russia, in Mexico and in member states of the Organization of the Petroleum Read More ›