Displaying the highway death toll on message boards is a common awareness campaign, but new research from the University of Toronto and University of Minnesota … Highway death toll messages cause more crashesRead more
Automobile
Posted inAutomobiles / Fossil fuel / Pollution / ToMl
Soot particles from GDI engines
Worldwide, three new cars roll off the line every second – that’s 73 cars and 18 million utility vehicles per year. Most run on gasoline. … Soot particles from GDI enginesRead more
Posted inAutomobiles / Economics / Financial crisis / USA Empire
Nationalizing Auto giant
Auto giant General Motors filed for Chapter 11 yesterday in one of the largest bankruptcy cases in US history. Shortly after the filing, GM said … Nationalizing Auto giantRead more
Posted inAutomobiles / Climate Disaster / Economics / Global Warming / Oil
Hidden truth
For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public … Hidden truthRead more
Posted inAutomobiles / Transportation
Fuel efficiency standards
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on the role of automobile fuel economy as gas prices continue to increase. … Fuel efficiency standardsRead more
Posted inAutomobiles / CO2
Good news: Americans driving less
The FHWA’s “Traffic Volume Trends” report, produced monthly since 1942, shows that estimated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on all U.S. public roads for March 2008 … Good news: Americans driving lessRead more