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Karl Rove ‘offended’ by Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.

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Ford may post best year since 1998

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Louisville Courier-Journal - By Bloomberg News - Jan. 26 (News Report) - Ford Motor Co., boosted by a one-time tax gain, may report its most profitable year since 1998, while weakness in Europe and Asia cut fourth-quarter earnings.

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Automakers in a race for buyers of mid-size family cars

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jerry Hirsch - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Ford, GM, Honda and Nissan are all rolling out revamped models this year, with added features and better gas mileage.

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U.S. Car Manufacturers Have Record December

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Susanna Kim - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Chrysler announced its best monthly retail sales in four year years, leading the pack of U.S. car makers who had capped a robust 2011 with strong December sales.

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Are America’s subways and roads overpriced?

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Brad Plumer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Why do transportation projects cost so much in the United States?

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Jesse James: Return of the outlaw biker

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Dec. 05 (Entertainment) - Jesse James had it all. The Hollywood A-list wife. A top-ranked cable-TV show. He'd built his Long Beach shop, West Coast Choppers, into an empire, wrenching custom $80,000-plus motorcycles for a celebrity clientele — an endeavor he spun off into a mass-market clothing line for Wal-Mart, a glossy gearhead magazine and an eco-friendly burger joint he hoped to franchise.

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Fact checking a claim on tax breaks

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Abby Phillip - Jul. 01 (Research) - President Obama used oil barons and corporate jet owners to anchor his opposition to Republicans' demands on taxes in his press conference on Wednesday. His indictment against corporate jet owners in particular was repeated so often, six times, that it certainly rankled Republicans who saw it as a clear case of class warfare.

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Streets With Bike Lanes are a Kind of Economic Stimulus

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Treehugger - By Michael Graham Richard - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - A new report by the University of Massachusetts' Political Economy Research Institute confirms that bike lanes are not just good for our health and for the environment, but they are also very good for the health of the economy. Some of the ways it brings benefits are: Tourism, more traffic to local businesses, increased property values, healthier citizens, etc.

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Obama administration taps Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Dan Berman - Jun. 23 (News Report) - The Obama administration will release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to offset oil supply disruptions in the Middle East, the Energy Department announced Thursday morning.

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Chevy Volt dealers inflate prices, take tax credits

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Tiffany Hsu - Jun. 03 (News Report) - Several dealerships, including at least one in California, have marked up new Volts more than $20,000. Others are selling the cars as used, claiming a $7,500 tax credit for themselves.Car sales may be in a slump, but the hybrid-electric Chevrolet Volts are hot, and that's leading to shortages — and in some cases extreme dealer markups.

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Iceland volcano pumps a different ash

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Jonathan Amos, Richard Black - May. 23 (News Report) - The eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland is huge, but it is not expected to cause the kind of disruption we saw last year when Eyjafjallajokull blew its top.

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Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By by Michael Grabell - May. 16 (News Report) - "There's no real data on these machines, and in fact, the best guess of the dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks," said John Sedat, a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the primary author of the letter.

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Driving Is Why You're Fat

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Ariel Schwartz - May. 15 (Comment) - Obesity is a complicated disease. It can be caused by your mom's pregnancy diet, genetics, your KFC Double Down habit, or some combination of all three. But why has the problem reached such epidemic proportions in the U.S.? Researchers at the University of Illinois think our car culture may be to blame. After analyzing national statistics from between 1985 and 2007, the researchers found that vehicle use (measured in annual vehicle miles traveled) correlated approximately 99% with annual obesity rates. The more we sit around doing nothing in our cars, the fatter we get. Of course, cars and roads aren't going anywhere, but we could stand to drive just a little bit less. If every licensed driver in the country cut down on travel by just one mile each day, in six years the obesity rate would drop 2.16%--cutting down on the number of obese adults by almost 5 million people, according to PhysOrg.

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Obama floats plan to tax cars by the mile

Thu, 05 May 2011 08:46:24 -0700

The Hill - By Pete Kasperowicz - May. 05 (News) - Right now about 50%, on average, of the price of a gallon of gas is taxes. I guess comrade Obama needs more taxes from those of us he promised NOT to raise taxes on. Just think of what would happen if he wanted to force us to fall into lock step with his environmental wacko agenda. Once again he wants to steal from his subjects so he can do what he wants to better HIS life.

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IMF warns of oil scarcity and a 60% oil price increase within a year

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Crude Oil Peak - Apr. 21 (News Analysis) - In a benchmark scenario of its latest World Economic Outlook (April 2011) the International Monetary Fund (IMF) analyses what it calls oil scarcity (after “energy security” another code word for peak oil?) and warns of a 60% increase in oil prices within a year and almost 90% within 5 years due to a reduced growth in global oil supplies (assumed to be + 0.8% pa, down from a long term 1.8%) and low oil price elasticities of oil demand between 0.02 (short-term) and 0.08 (long term). Even in the best case scenario in which oil price elasticities increase almost 5 fold (greater substitution away from oil), oil prices are simulated to go up by 60% in 5 years.

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Digital permits to replace hangtags

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Ryan Langrehr - Apr. 21 (News) - When students purchase parking permits for the fall semester, they won’t be getting them in the mail, or picking them up from the ticket office. Towson University is abandoning the traditional hangtag parking permits to implement an entirely digital system called the Virtual Permit system. Virtual Permits will work off of License Plate Recognition (LPR) [...]

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FAA ends single-controller overnight shifts after alleged sleeping incident at Nevada airport

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:41:16 -0700

Washington Post - By Ashley Halsey III - Apr. 13 (News) - A Nevada air traffic controller allegedly fell asleep early Wednesday as a medical flight carrying a sick patient tried to land, leading federal authorities to order an immediate end to the practice of leaving one controller on duty during overnight shifts.

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Obama's High-Speed Rail Project Gets $1.5 Billion Slashed In Budget Deal

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Apr. 12 (News Report) - As part of the final budget deal formally agreed to on Friday night, the Obama administration signed off on a big cut to a closely held transportation policy priority.

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Photos capture TSA repelling toddler terrorist threat with intrusive grope-downs of 6-year olds

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Doug Ross @ Journal - By Doug Ross - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - This administration -- and Janet Napolitano in particular -- is simply out of control, that's all there is to it.

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Southwest says small cracks found in 3 more planes

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Bob Christie - Apr. 04 (News) - Inspectors found small, subsurface cracks in three more Southwest Airlines planes that are similar to the cracks that caused a jetliner to lose pressure and make a harrowing emergency landing in Arizona, investigators said Sunday.

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Tesla Stock Soars After It's Called 'America's Fourth Automaker'

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Huffington Post Business - Apr. 01 (News Report) - A new report by Morgan Stanley suggests that electric car startup Tesla is in good position to break into the Big Three to become "America's fourth automaker." The brokerage believes that increasing gas prices and promises of governmental support for alternative fuel vehicles may help launch the manufacturer to global success.

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Obama Sets Goal of One-Third Cut in Oil Imports

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Mar. 30 (News) - With gasoline prices rising, oil supplies from the Middle East pinched by political upheaval and growing calls in Congress for expanded domestic oil and gas production, President Obama on Wednesday will set a goal of a one-third reduction in oil imports over the next decade, aides said Tuesday.

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EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Bruno Waterfield - Mar. 29 (News) - Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.

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National to add second controller overnight after tower goes silent

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ashley Halsey III - Mar. 24 (News) - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has ordered a second air traffic controller to be on duty overnight at Reagan National Airport, after the lone controller was unavailable early Wednesday as two passenger planes were trying to land.

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TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Mar. 16 (News) - The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results.

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