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Electric Car Range Anxiety In Perspective, A Response To Tesla’s Musk vs. NYT’s Broder

February 14, 2013

A war has erupted between Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and New York Times columnist John Broder. Musk takes issue [...]

Remember When Republicans Said Rising Gas Prices Were Obama’s Fault?

May 25, 2012

Gas prices have fallen for seven straight weeks. Heading into Memorial Day weekend gas prices are lower than they were [...]

A Really Inconvenient Truth On The Limits Of Growth

April 5, 2012

Australian physicist Graham Turner says we could be heading for economic disaster and population decline by 2030. Turner revisited a [...]

Expiration Date: Recollection Of Gas Prices & Federal Deficit

February 25, 2012

Apparently our recollection has a built-in expiration date when it comes to things like the price of gasoline or the [...]

Obama Lampoons The Republican ‘Cheap Gas’ Mantra Of Drill, Baby, Drill

February 23, 2012

While speaking to University of Miami students, President Obama said “when gas prices go up, it hurts everybody” and made [...]

Can We Afford $5 Gas? What Happens When It’s $10? Or Worse?

February 14, 2012

In an article on The Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Brad Plumer asks, “Many analysts are predicting $4-per-gallon gas or higher by [...]