China Post, Taiwan - Oct 6, 2006By John O Dell Los Angeles Times. Sticker shock — compounded by what might be called odometer shock — has turned off many would …

Get eco-friendly
Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ - Oct 5, 2006… Think of toothpaste or deodorant, or even condoms. You could say the same for hybrid cars. They're not all that much to look at. …

Gentlemen, Start Your Hydrogen Rotary, Turbo Parallel Hybrids
Investor’s Business Daily (subscription) - Oct 6, 2006BY KEN SPENCER BROWN. Not too long ago most automakers dismissed gas-sipping hybrid cars as a niche product with limited mass-market appeal. …

CLASSIC MORFORD / LATE NIGHT COMMUNING WITH BUSH
OpEdNews, PA - 7 hours ago… Gosh they know everything! 'Cept they don't know this: I like U Libruls. U stir me up gud with your crazee music and your tofu and hybrid cars and sex. …

Car Companies In The Fast Lane To Save On Gas
Investor’s Business Daily (subscription) - Oct 6, 2006… The roots of hybrid cars date to 1898 when Ferdinand Porsche built an auto that had a combustion engine and four electric motors. …

Drexel University to Open High-Tech Nanotechnology Research Center
Nanotechwire.com, PA - 1 hour ago… the Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Dr. Yury Gogotsi, and a research team were able to develop new materials for supercapacitors in hybrid cars, laptops and …

Duncan Banner, OK - 14 hours ago… An additional piece of the energy puzzle must be alternative fuels, with research and development funding for wind, solar and nuclear energy, among others …

DoD Wary Of Becoming Sole Synthetic-Fuel Customer In US
Easy Bourse (Communiqu s de presse), France - 19 hours ago… reporters. "We cannot drive a marketplace.". The Air Force has the Defense Department's best-known alternative-fuels experiment. The …

San Francisco Chronicle: "Gov.'s late vetoes"
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 16 hours ago… was of AB1012, by Assemblyman Joe Nation, D-San Rafael, which would have required half of all cars sold in 2020 to be powered by alternative fuels - a perfect …

ALP plan for green car lanes
The Australian, Australia - 22 hours ago… Speaking at an alternative fuels summit in Sydney yesterday, Mr Beazley said he would cut tariffs for green cars and work with the states to enforce government …

S usan E. Dudley , President Bush ’s nominee to become his new regulatory review chief, has written extensively about federal rulemaking for years, a miles-long paper trail that is providing ammunition for her opponents.

Versa doesn’t downsize ambitions 
The new-for-2007 Nissan Versa is a perfect example of why consumers don’t have to appreciably downsize their lives to buy a downsized car.

Branson to lobby Canberra on climate 
BRITISH tycoon Sir Richard Branson has said he will pressure the Australian Ggovernment to sign the Kyoto agreement. Sir Richard’s Virgin Group today made a 10-year, $3.9 billion commitment to renewable energy initiatives.

Hard choices for governor: 2 new bills on warming 
After cutting a deal with Democrats on historic legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faces decisions this month on two other bills that could dramatically reduce pollution from the auto and energy industries –…

Highlights from the SEW Blog: Sept. 18, 2006 
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.

8 hybrid cars delivered to Des Moines PD 
DES MOINES, Iowa Des Moines police are hitting the streets in some new hybrid cars.

All American Patriots - Web site, www.gettingaroundillinois.com , the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is now displaying all E-85 and biodiesel locations around the state to help inform drivers where they can fill up with the clean burning, alternative fuels, one

Man turns to vegetable oil as alternative to diesel fuel
Naples Daily News - Lee County Commissioner Ray Judah has been calling for alternative fuels to be used in the government’s operations. He has talked about using biofuel a mixture of diesel and natural products in the LeeTran buses. No national policy or

Energy independence: The time is now
Arizona Daily Wildcat - While alternative fuels may someday be of help in reducing our energy dependence, most are unfortunately years away from any kind of feasibility in mass markets. E85 Ethanol is the most appealing biofuel today, yet it hasn’t reached widespread use

Iowa company turns to ammonia for fuel
Silicon Valley - With federal and state air quality regulations making it increasingly more expensive to reduce the engine emissions, alternative fuels such as ammonia are becoming more cost effective. “The agriculture industry out here needs to do something to comply

Prop. 87: Oil tax: No
Orange County Register - Prop. 87 would impose a new tax on California oil production of $200 million to $380 million a year the exact amount isn’t clear until a total of $4 billion is reached to fund research into alternative fuels. Prop. 87’s Web site claims it

House Democratic leaders vow to block adjournment
Raw Story - We can begin by rolling back tax breaks for Big Oil and investing the savings in alternative fuels to achieve energy independence. Congress has less than a week to act on these critical issues before you intend to recess. Democrats stand ready to