Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-02-25 Thread Zeke Yewdall
There's a few of those converted ford escapes running around Boulder. The company that converted them works mostly on the Prius, but since the Ford Escape uses a very similar drive system, they also tried it out on two of them, and reported very promising results -- somthing like 70mpg+ for the fir

Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-02-25 Thread Keith Addison
>http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/09/comed_joins_chi.html > > ComEd Joins Chicago Plug-in Hybrid Conversion Project Targeting 2x >Fuel Economy for Escape Hybrid 8 September 2006 ComEd, one of the >largest US electric utilities with approximately 5.2 million >customers and more than $15 b

[Biofuel] Bad News for Big Coal

2008-02-25 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.alternet.org/environment/77504/?page=entire Bad News for Big Coal The Progress Report. Posted February 22, 2008. Big Coal is against the ropes -- from Kansas to Wall Street. This story was written by by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Ali Frick, and Benjamin Ar

Re: [Biofuel] Bad News for Big Coal

2008-02-25 Thread Kirk McLoren
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[Biofuel] Bees buzz off

2008-02-25 Thread Bob Molloy
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Re: [Biofuel] doubling the fuel economy of the Ford Escape

2008-02-25 Thread Erik Lane
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are Hybrids Putting the Brakes on Greener Options? > Source: Wired, February 11, 2008 > French researchers are concerned that consumer demand for hybrid > cars, fueled by advert

[Biofuel] Consumers can and will pay more for food

2008-02-25 Thread Keith Addison
Brownfield: Ag News of America Consumers can and will pay more for food Monday, February 25, 2008, 3:12 PM by Peter Shinn For the past 11 years, the American Farm Bureau Federation has celebrated the fact that Americans generally pay around 10% of their total income for food, the lowest total

[Biofuel] Major Global Warming Report Puts Value on Human Life

2008-02-25 Thread Keith Addison
Stern Review Index page http://snipurl.com/130d4 Stern Review Report (pdfs) http://snipurl.com/11fp8 http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2007/webArticles/011907_stern.htm UN Chronicle | Act on Global Warming Now or Pay Later: The Stern Review http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0119-07.htm Publ

Re: [Biofuel] Major Global Warming Report Puts Value on Human Life

2008-02-25 Thread Dawie Coetzee
Could it be that the penny is dropping for Monbiot? If he has seen that human life is not a commodity, might he realise that human liberty is not a commodity either? As the most visible current proponent of the centralized, eco-authoritarian approach, George Monbiot has for some time been to me