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• Government-funded study says plug-in subsidies a bad deal

  
  Leftlane - news, reviews, and info for the auto-industry — Authority: 595
  Vice President Joe Biden has announced that the Obama administration plans to push more than triple the current $2.4 billion allotted in tax credits for manufacturers of advanced energy technologies – including the batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles. A recent study by the congressionally chartered body, the ...
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• How Fiskers Delaware plant helps the local UAW

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 660
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants , Fisker Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery When Fisker signed an agreement in late October to build the Nina project car plug-in hybrid sports car at a Wilmington, Delaware assembly plant that formerly belonged to GM, we mentioned ...
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• Fisker On a List It Doesn’t Want to Be On

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 560
  Scooby sez, “Ruh-roh.”Granted, it’s only one person’s opinion, and it’s at a website called Ask Men (Disclaimer: I am not a regular reader of this site, but its list is yet another Top 10 list. Besides, I usually ‘ask women’. The answer invariably is ‘no’).However, if you make cars, you don’t want ...
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• 12/19 Weekend rewind: Did you see these stories on Auto Motion?

  
  Auto Motion — Authority: 428
  It’s been another week with plenty of automotive headlines here at Auto Motion, and we’ve seen everything from Ford getting funky with its new Transit Connect to the unfortunate death of yet another GM brand, the latest being Saab. Here’s a recap of some blogs from the past day on Auto Motion. Click any to [...]
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• Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik gets a Fisker Karma for climate change conference

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 497
  In order to gain exposure for its new Karma hybrid, Fisker Automobiles decided to loan one to Prince Frederik, a member of Denmark’s royal family, to use as he attends the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen.Certainly, Prince Frederik attracted a lot of attention when he used the slinky ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Is Obama administration CleanTech loans and grants undermining fair competition?

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 441
  A recent article (Dec 15) article in the Wall Street Journal tells the story of the deal where Fisker Automotive took over a former GM plant in Delaware, that coincidentally is down the road from VP Bidens home. The WSJ article notes funding data from the Cleantech Group showing the that Dept of Energy loans and ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Obama announces $5.4B in tax credits to stimulate green job market

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  With climate policy grinding to a halt in Copenhagen, president Barack Obama turned his attention to the domestic growth of green today, announcing that $5.4 billion in tax credits will be granted to spur the creation of tens of thousands of new green collar jobs in the next three years, predominantly in the ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Stifling Innovation with Subsidies

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 751
  By Tad DeHaven A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a story in Wired regarding the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. The gist was that government subsidies to particular manufacturers are putting non-recipients at a competitive disadvantage in obtaining private ...
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• Daily Sprout

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 654
  Trade Tension at Copenhagen: “China is demanding that a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases prohibit nations from imposing trade sanctions, further pitting the world’s No. 1 emitter against U.S. lawmakers.” — Bloomberg How Fisker Ended Up in Delaware: Reporter Neil King Jr. details California ...
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• Daily Sprout

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  Trade Tension at Copenhagen: “China is demanding that a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases prohibit nations from imposing trade sanctions, further pitting the world’s No. 1 emitter against U.S. lawmakers.” — BloombergHow Fisker Ended Up in Delaware: Reporter Neil King Jr. details California startup ...
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• Hybrid car is fit for a prince

  
  Green OC — Authority: 426
  Register staff writer Matt Degen reports that Denmark’s crown prince will be the first person outside an Irvine-based company, Fisker Automotive, to drive their new plug-in hybrid car. Read Degen’s story in the Register’s Auto Motion blog . Latest posts: Post from: Green OC
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Danish prince will be first to roll in Fisker Karma

  
  Auto Motion — Authority: 428
  Irvine-based Fisker Automotive said that Denmark’s Crown Prince, HRH Frederik, will be the first individual outside the automaker’s development team to drive the coming Karma plug-in electric hybrid.The prince will drive the car today to and from the United Nations Climate Change conference, which is taking place ...
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• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• Alaskan Coastline Triple-Threatened, Eroding at Incredible 45 Feet Per Year (Video)

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 152
  Photo via University of Colorado at Boulder A study out of the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that a substantial piece of the northern Alaska coastline is eroding at an astonishing rate of 45 feet a year thanks to three major threats - less ice, more waves, and warmer water. In other words, climate change is ...
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