Now its getting silly. The American motor industry’s rush to greenwash its products has now even affected the Hummer, with GM announcing yesterday an ethanol-powered version of the military-style vehicle.
General Motors kicked off the Detroit motor show by revealing biofuel-propelled prototypes of a Hummer, even though the car does just 16 litres per 100km (15 […]

Auto makers finally face higher fuel efficiency standards in the US.
Sort of.
After years of holding out against anything to do with climate change, President George Bush finally signed into law an energy bill establishing higher fuel-economy standards for new cars and other conservation measures. And then 8 hours later he completely sabotaged states like […]

In the third of three major policy addresses, Republican presidential candidate, John McCain has talked about the “great and urgent challenge - breaking our nation’s critical dependence on foreign sources of oil”.
In a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) McCain warned that America’s “dependency on foreign oil and the way we […]

Bush’s plans to tackle climate change and reduce foreign oil dependence have been widely condemned by environmental groups.
Jan Kowalzig of Friends of the Earth Europe said that whilst ethanol from corn is “carbon neutral”, production of ethanol requires fossil fuels.
“Transportation of the fuels, processing of the fuels - all that requires energy which is currently […]

A new study has found that ethanol plants could use as much as half of America’s corn crop next year, renewing concerns about whether there will be enough corn to support the demand for both fuel and food.