Finally someone has stated the blindingly obvious…
For years the car industry has argued that electric vehicles are the answer to climate change. They have even had the audacity to call them “zero emission vehicles”.
At the moment, electric vehicles are all the rage. At this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show visitors would have been left with only [...]

For a long time now people have argued that if you internalised the external costs of our fossil fuel addiction, we would soon realise that our habit was too expensive and we would be left with no alternative but to kick our dirty ways.
So a new report from the US National Research Council has tried [...]

For a while now there has been a growing consensus that, whilst many people worry about peak supply of oil, peak demand is also an issue, especially in developed countries.
I blogged on this back in August, after an analysis by Oil Change, Greenpeace and Platform, argued we could be seeing a demand peak.
Well now the [...]

California has long liked to set the trend that others follow: whether it be movies, fashion, celebrities or even clean air. And yesterday was another first. It adopted the world’s first regulation to limit greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels.
The State’s Air Resources Board adopted a regulation expected to slash gasoline consumption by 25% and [...]

As the auto industry crisis continues in Washington after the impasse in Congress late last week, you could argue that the American car industry is paying a heavy price for ignoring the warning signs of a coming economic crunch and growing ecological consciousness.
Contrast the image of the ailing big three American car companies begging for [...]