Are the days of the SUV and large gas-guzzlers over? The New York Times reports how “Soaring gas prices have turned the steady migration by Americans to smaller cars into a stampede.”
According to the Times: “In what industry analysts are calling a first, about one in five vehicles sold in the United States was a […]

No that is not some long-haired environmentalist speaking, but the ex-chairman of Shell, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart.
He is arguing that the EU should ban the sale of cars that do under 35 miles to the gallon (good thing his is not saying that in America - the roads would be empty!!)

The European car industry has pledged to fight the already watered-down plans to reduce CO2 from new cars. Leading the fight will be the Germans and their powerful car industry, which is dominated by gas-guzzling cars like BMW, Porsches and Mercedes-Benz.
Even the country’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has opposed the plans saying they were “not economically […]

It’s a political row that has been going on for months. Tomorrow the European Commission is due to publish its long-awaited plans to reduce carbon emissions from passenger cars to 120 grams per kilometre within five years.
But a bitter fallout between France and Germany has plunged the key negotiations into crisis. French manufacturers such as […]

Interesting story in today’s Independent about events in Brandywine Street, a suburb of Washington DC, which the paper argues is “now on the frontline of America’s fractious debate about climate change.”
It reports: “Early on Monday morning, two masked men arrived there wielding baseball bats and a machete. They then set about attacking […]