Detroit — Amid all the press pom-poms, there is an occasional glimpse into why the “electric vehicles of the future” may meet the same fate as the battery-powered vehicles of the past. Consider New York Times reporter Lindsay Brook’s account of her ...
Public policy is about choosing priorities in the face of limited resources. That is the lesson Bjørn Lomborg and his Copenhagen Consensus try to make plain — a lesson rejected by the American Left, which likes to contend that focusing on one priority ...
The Left likes having Big Industry straw men to bash whenever their socialist plans run aground, but the fact is, Big Industry is embracing the U.S.’s leftward lurch. Better to secure your place at the Rentseekers Roundtable, to lock out new ...
Teaching 16-year-olds the basics of driving is a tall order. But now politicians want to indoctrinate student drivers with a green catechism, too. My Detroit News colleague Manny Lopez reports that Michigan’s legislature is considering a bill that ...
Clunkers greens foreign competitors’ bottom line (HP) Congress continues to pat itself on the back for its clunkers “stimulus,” hoping that no one notices the details. The latest embarrassment: Having spent $80 billion in taxpayer money to bail out ...
Detroit — In rolling out its plan for the future of Chrysler on Wednesday, Fiat executives dutifully stressed that the “New Chrysler” would be more fuel efficient — hailing the tiny, 40 mpg, Euro-transplant Fiat 500 as a marquee car. After all, a ...
CBS news anchor Katie Couric interviewed Al Gore on her web program, “@katiecouric,” this week as the Goracle makes the media rounds flogging his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. Would she go after his blatant conflict of ...
Detroit — When Washington bailed out General Motors and Chrysler, the Obama administration promised that government’s role would be to make loans to ensure that the companies became viable, profitable entities again. That promise was as believable as ...
Detroit — Fisker Automotive? Call it Obama Automotive. As part of Washington’s effort to remake the U.S. auto industry to fit President Obama’s green vision of 1 million electric cars sold by 2015, Vice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that ...
My travels took me to Washington University in St. Louis last weekend where students were coincidentally prepping for a local rally supporting the International Day of Climate Action (billed by 350.org as the “most widespread day of environmental ...
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