Hundres of thousands of Americans, concerned about climate change and increasingly shocked at how much they are paying at the pump for their gas, are voting with their feet and ditching their gas-guzzling vehicles and going electric.
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Last Chance Alliance: California Governor Newsom’s Executive Order on Climate Is Missing Action on Oil
The Last Chance Alliance coalition pointed out that while Newsom’s announcement was commendable on some accounts, its failure to commit to a phase-out of oil production and a clear just transition policy to support workers and communities makes the order falls short.
Paris Proposes Ban on All Internal Combustion Cars by 2030
Officials in Paris have announced they plan to banish all gasoline and diesel cars by 2030
“The internal combustion engine will be long decimated by 2040”
Despite all the predictions about the coming renewable and electic vehicle (EV) revolution, Big Oil is still betting on being able to make oil drilling more efficient to compete with renewables, rather than switching to producing clean energy instead.
Mass adoption of electric vehicles is “much sooner than most people realize”
The electric vehicle revolution is happening – and may account for 25 per cent of the global vehicle fleet by 2040.
“Adios Gas-Powered Cars”
“The typical American male devotes more than 1,000 hours a year to his car”, so wrote the Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich way back in 1974.
BP Out of Touch on Climate and Clean Energy Technology
How BP’s Outlook for Energy looks to the past not the future
Falling Gas Prices: Buy an EV Not SUV
It is pretty hard nowadays to pass a gas station and not notice the plummeting price. Fuel prices have been falling so persistently that it appears that Americans have rediscovered their taste for gas guzzlers.
Electric Vehicles May Increase CO2
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 … Read More
Protestors and Advisors Tell UK Gov to Act on Climate
Headline on the BBC’s flagship radio show, the Today programme at 8.00 AM this morning: 20-odd Greenpeace protestors have spent the night on the House of Commons to highlight the government’s lack of action on climate change. Next headline: a report by the Government’s own advisors on climate change says the government must do more … Read More
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