19 Jul '12, 4pm

George Shultz is an electric-car-driving, solar-panel-rockin' Reagan Republican

To think in binary terms of left and right is rediculous. Left and Right parties have changed over time. A Reagan republican might be voting for Ron Paul these days, and putting some solar panels on his house, not because he wants to reduce his carbon footprint, but because he is tired of paying the electric company. Neo-conservatives tend to have this dim view of the environment, but old school republicans did not. It was Nixon that instated the EPA, after all. Imagine a modern republican doing that! I think neocons try to appear to oppose environmentalism because it is one of the few ways they can differentiate themselves from the democrats. In reality, the difference between the two main parties has been shoring up for a while, even on environmental issues. Case in point, the Bush administration was responsible for handing out record amounts of DoE cash, and started the...

Full article: http://green.autoblog.com/2012/07/19/george-shultz-is-an-...

Tweets

Energy vampires: "sleeping" computers use 189 k...

greencarreports.com 19 Jul '12, 12pm

I have a Kill-a-Watt meter can be hooked up to any 120V device and records wattage being used instantaneously and also ove...

Researchers Improve Electric Car Range: With Better GPS System: Although electric cars are

Researchers Improve Electric Car Range: With Be...

greencarreports.com 20 Jul '12, 12pm

With a $95,000 one-year research grant from the California Energy Commission, a team at University of California Riverside...

Blog: PKR Cabar George Kent Nafi Terima Surat H...

anwaribrahimblog.com 19 Jul '12, 7am

PKR mencabar syarikat George Kent Bhd untuk mendedahkan sama ada syarikat itu telah diberikan surat hasrat untuk projek sa...

China dubs Volvo C30 Electric Green Car of the Year

China dubs Volvo C30 Electric Green Car of the ...

thegreencarwebsite.co.uk 20 Jul '12, 2pm

The electric version of Volvo’s C30 has been named China’s Green Car of the Year. Volvo C30 Electric picked up the title a...

George Michael 'woke from coma with different accent'

George Michael 'woke from coma with different a...

straitstimes.com 18 Jul '12, 1pm

British singer George Michael (above) has revealed that he woke from his three-week coma talking in the broad West Country...

George Michael wakes up from coma with a differ...

todayonline.com 19 Jul '12, 8am

LONDON - George Michael has revealed that he woke up from his three-week coma speaking in a West Country accent. The star,...