by Jane Richey | Jan 24, 2014 | Agenda 21
An Environmental Protection Agency’s website that offers car buying tips lists the best and worst vehicles based on fuel economy. Small electric vehicles top the most efficient list, while luxury vehicles are listed as the least efficient.Nine of the top 10 cars are...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2014 | Agenda 21, Free Markets
States are quickly learning that promoting electric cars is coming with a high price tag. Colorado has joined a growing number of states that are imposing fees on electric and alternative vehicles to recover “lost” gas tax revenues. As of this year, Coloradans driving...
by Jane Richey | Jan 9, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
The Department of Transportation is proposing new regulations that would require hybrid and electric cars to make more noise when their engines are running. The rules are designed to make it easier for pedestrians to hear the quiet automobiles when they are...
by Jane Richey | May 31, 2012 | Free Markets
From the Oil City Derrick: Ramping up to use natural gas as a motor fuel ANDREW MAYKUTH The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA (AP) – In the 1990s, natural gas was promoted as the motor fuel of the future. Utilities opened refueling stations and government...
by Jane Richey | Apr 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Two Republican senators are bashing the Energy Department for using taxpayer funds to support production of a luxury electric car that costs six figures. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Thune (R-S.D.) are the latest GOP lawmakers to raise questions about...
