The beautiful electric/gasoline plug-in hybrid sports car, the Fisker Karma from Fisker Automotive, is finally rolling off assembly lines and being test driven. The video below is from the Fisker dealer in Santa Monica, CA, which recently held an exclusive test drive event for deposit holders of the new plug-in: The Fisker Karma has two [...]
From 2008 – 2010 “ExxonMobil reported $9,910 million in pretax U.S. profits. But it enjoyed so many tax subsidies that its federal income tax bill was only $39 million, a tax rate of only 0.4 percent.” Yes, you read that right — a tax rate of only 0.4%, says Citizens for Tax Justice (PDF). I [...]
If I told you that our government mandated fuel efficiency standards hadn’t changed in 25 years, would you believe me? I don’t think I would have believed myself, to be honest. But if I had gone looking for the facts to back up that claim, I would have found it to be true; Corporate Average [...]
Why? Because buying a hybrid is not all about saving money. It seems that every day I read somewhere or see on television the complaint of “Well, I won’t buy a hybrid because it would take me years and years to make back the extra expense over a regular gas engine“. Though saving money on [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Are the United States’ vast oil shale resources a potential source of energy? Oil shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that contains significant amounts of kerogen, a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds that can be converted into synthetic liquid fuel similar to oil, or into shale gas similar to petroleum-derived natural gas. [...]
Dear EarthTalk: If you have an electric or plug-in hybrid car, you’re paying for electricity rather than gasoline all or most of the time. How does that cost compare to a gas-powered car’s cost-per-mile? And since the electricity may be generated from some other polluting source, does it really work out to be better for [...]
In the last 4 days, I have seen our local gas prices go up by $.10…and I could not be happier about it. Call me crazy, but I think gas should be more expensive, not less expensive. In Europe, gas costs somewhere around 4 times what we pay for it here! I know in this [...]
