Politics
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Less than two weeks after a bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate to provide tax credits for buyers of natural-gas vehicles, or NGVs, the House has passed an entirely different bill that funds research and development of NGVs. Unlike the tax credits in Senate bill S.1408, which would encourage purchase of vehicles that run on natural gas, the House bill dedicates $150 million to the Department of Energy to investigate, develop, and demonstrate natural-gas vehicles over five years. Given the political momentum behind alternative fuels in general, and lately natural gas in particular, ...
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Surprise: Heavier, More Powerful Cars Get Worse Gas MileageHere at GreenCarReports.com, we read a lot. And increasingly, our friends send us stuff they think we'd be interested in. Which is how we came across an abstract of a study done by one Christopher R. Knittel at the University of California-Davis. Knittel looked at the factors affecting carmakers'...
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Should Higher Gas Mileage Come With Higher Gas Taxes Too?
We do a mix of articles here at GreenCarReports, writing both about cars--green, and occasionally not so green--and some of the broader automotive issues that affect our environment. We were struck by an article last week from The Hill, which covers DC politics as obsessively as we cover...
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