Feds to expand review of emissions standards for cars
The EPA said it would consider whether to loosen the emissions standards for cars beginning in model year 2021 rather than model year 2022.
Archive for month: August, 2017
Workers: Building Teslas for Elon Musk is hell
Elon Musk and many of his employees at his Tesla factory agree on one point: Work is hell.
This $65 billion oil opportunity will never be tapped
Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer, Norway, is also one of the countries that is most self-congratulatory on its climate action, electric cars sales, and green policies.
EIA raises both 2017, 2018 U.S. crude production forecasts
U.S. producers are seen pumping away, even with the price of West Texas Intermediate crude lingering below $50 as barrel, according to the latest government estimates.
Santorum: A better fuel mix can be ‘Made in America’
American ethanol now replaces more than 500 million barrels of imported oil annually and shields drivers from price manipulation by hostile forces within the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Tesla developing self-driving tech for semi-truck, wants to test in Nevada
Tesla Inc is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in “platoons” that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype.
Electric vehicle hopeful has been reneging on factories it hasn’t yet built
In early 2016, electric vehicle company Faraday Future celebrated a deal with the state of Nevada—in exchange for building a $1 billion factory that would eventually employ up to 4,500 people, the company would get $335 million in tax cuts from the state.
Cooking gas shortages force Venezuelans to turn to firewood
Venezuelan homemaker Carmen Rondon lives in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, but has spent weeks cooking with firewood due to a chronic shortage of home cooking gas – leaving her hoarse from breathing smoke.
Vladimir’s Venezuela: Leveraging loans to Caracas, Moscow snaps up oil assets
Venezuela’s unraveling socialist government is increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to survive – and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.
Diesel has to die — there is no reverse gear on this
Evidence is piling up that this cheating was not the result of misunderstandings of regulatory requirements, or honest mistakes by some engineers, but well-thought-out corporate strategies.
