New York Times - All railroads will be electrified, and long distance car travel will be done by piggybacking electric cars on the RR. Airplanes are ideally suited to using liquid H2, and cars are not. As the Chinese curse says, May your children live in

Austin’s ‘Shock Value’ Unveils New ZAP Electric Car
Market Wire - Studies show that electric cars are less expensive to fuel, costing 2 to 3 cents per mile versus 10 cents and more for gas. They also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 90 percent over internal combustion, including power plant emissions.

Using speed to sell alternative powertrains
Santa Fe New Mexican - Looks what’s going fast and making news: diesel engines and electric cars no less. An Audi R10 race car had just won again, this time at the new Miller Motorsport complex near Salt Lake City. The victory came within a month of its unprecedented June

Automotive Museums Out Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
New York Times - Macky s collection of restored antique automobiles, including steam and electric cars as well as vehicles built with some of the first internal combustion engines. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, June 2 to Sept. 3. Admission fee. 8306

Operating in the green
Pizza Marketplace - Hot Lips, which owns its fleet of eight delivery vehicles, advertises use of its electric cars as friendly to the environment. Two of the eight vehicles are electric-powered, and others include gas-sipping Toyota Echos.

Words to fear
Space Review - There were also some electric cars and, rarest of all, a few gasoline autos. Yet, ten years later the gas-powered car had completely dominated the market. The new space industry also has a number of competing technologies and no one, not even a

Cleveland Plain Dealer - just have another six or 12 or 18. He just can’t believe we’re going to take his blanket,” Brown said. At a later stop at the University of Heidelberg in Tiffin, Brown talked about making Ohio a leader in the use of ethanol and other alternative fuels

Prop. 87 shines light on state’s oil history
San Francisco Gate - Proposition 87 on the November ballot would place a new tax of up to 6 percent on crude pumped within the state, raising $4 billion to fund research into alternative fuels. Oil companies, led by San Ramon’s Chevron Corp., are pushing hard to

Pellet maker to locate in Athens
Bangor Daily News - ATHENS - Capitalizing on the popularity of alternative fuels because of rising oil prices and Maine s desire to establish a home-grown, sustainable form of energy, a new company announced Friday that it will locate a wood pellet manufacturing

As campaign winds down, Corker pays a visit
Columbia Daily Herald - Prior to answering questions from the audience, Corker laid out his views on issues such as alternative fuels, illegal immigration and international exports. We need to make sure this is where innovation takes place, Corker said. We

The UK is looking at a personal carbon trading scheme that will give everyone a free equal allowance of carbon units, which can be exchanged for carbon use, say for petrol or electricity, or traded in a market that aims to drive carbon use down. With carbon trading by governments and corporations proving successful, there could one day be schemes for individuals too. The idea is that citizens Rest of story…

Saturn’s Green Line is one of the most practical of this new type of SUV. Rest of story…

TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp.s global production rose 3.8 percent in September, putting the company on track to overtake General Motors as the worlds largest automaker. It was the companys 23rd consecutive monthly advance. Rest of story…

Richard Chema is a political novice, and hopes that’s to his advantage: The former federal prosecutor has been campaigning with the hopes that an anti-incumbent sentiment and distaste with Republican policies will help him unseat two-term U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, in November. Rest of story…

PEWAUKEE, Wis. - The average speed Justin Fons drove in a marathon last month in Oklahoma wouldn’t surpass any land speed record, at least not one set since the Paleolithic Era. Rest of story…

Lately, China\’s economy has been hungry for nickel and zinc, metals used in steel-making. The country is now the world\’s largest steel producer and exporter. Rest of story…

Transport News Network, UK - Oct 26, 2006… an urgent need to address the impact of rising fuel prices on business performance, the study reveals only 7% currently using alternative fuels, with the US …

Mayes for another two years as
The Bay City Times, MI - Oct 26, 2006… of the minority party on the House Energy and Technology Committee, the freshman Mayes nevertheless took a leading role promoting alternative fuels such as …

Satire reigns supreme in Man of the Year
The Rice Thresher, TX - 23 hours ago… In him they see the hope for an alternative government that believes in the benefits of alternative fuels and maybe even honesty. …

Rogers reflects values of our community
Livingston Daily, MI - 18 hours ago… Promoting alternative fuels, such as ethanol, as a way to stimulate Michigan's economy and to reduce dependence on oil from unfriendly foreign nations. …

American envoy plants green shoots
The Local, Sweden - Oct 26, 2006… try and accomplish something. . That something, he has decided, will be finding a breakthrough in alternative fuels. Wood says he …