I have to say that I’m befuddled by all the electric vehicle bashing. Here’s an article from the Washington Post that really lays it on with a trowel. While author Charles Lane admits “the administration’s objectives – reducing carbon emissions …
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'Tis the Season … for Bashing Electric Vehicles
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Oil Companies and Renewable Energy
When my father left this Earth a couple of months ago, he left me some stock in ExxonMobil. I posted my musings on the subject here, on my blog at Renewable Energy World.
Oil Companies’ Participation in Clean Energy
In the Renewable Energy Finance Forum session in which presenters from Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan, offered their observations on the industry, several pointed to the strategies that multinational oil companies (BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc.) have vis-à-vis …
The Precautionary Principle and the Gulf Oil Spill
Many of the great consultants in green business practices have developed ways of introducing their clients to topics like LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design – the internationally recognized green building certification system) and biomimicry (taking lessons from the …
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Paul Scott Speaks on the Big Oil Companies
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIup3ZoX_rA&w=445&h=364] Here’s another in a series of interview snipets that I conducted with Paul Scott, vice president and co-founder of Plug-In America. Here, we discuss the concept that the big oil companies will fight electric transportation to the death. Full …
Global Warming "Debate"
I thought I’d write a quick post on the “debate” over global warming. Perhaps the first thing to note here is that there really are very few informed people actually debating. Of scientists covering the issue who publish peer-reviewed papers, …
Hot Discussion at 2GreenEnergy.com
I’d like to call readers’ attention to a really important discussion occuring in the comments under the post re: the Business of Plugging. I encourage even more opinions on the subject here; please feel free to join in.
The Politics of Renewables
In this post (the blog’s 100th, btw) I offer a video that I put together on the politics of renewables. I hope you enjoy it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V9vAu4oqI0&w=425&h=344]
General Electric Invests in Renewable Energy
The 2GreenEnergy mantra “It’s business” is played out in this interview with General Electric’s Energy Infrastructure CEO John Krenicki on the company’s investment in renewables. As with most such interviews, the content here is extremely broad, general, and at times …
Global Warming
David Goldstein comments: Sadly, recent surveys have shown that many auto consumers place Global Warming near the bottom of their concerns. Yes, this appears to be true. I have to guess that this is caused by a combination of three …
