Was GM/UAW Behind Toyota Bashing?
One year after federal prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Toyota's unintended acceleration safety issues, a ten month investigation came to the conclusion that there were no electronic...
View ArticleInvestors Flock to ‘Clean’ Tech, So Why the Subsidies?
According to a report in USA Today, venture capitalists are throwing tons of money into clean and “Green” technology companies. In fact, investor Alan Salzman of VantagePoint Capital Partners says,...
View ArticleGreen Pressure Groups Try to Split National Association of Manufacturers
National business associations have been targets of intimidation tactics by environmentalist groups for some time now. For example, Greenpeace trespassed on the grounds of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,...
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DOE Bet on EV Charging Technology Puts Taxpayers in Reverse
On Friday NLPC reported that the Department of Energy may have made a bad bet on Ecotality, the car-charging company that is heavily dependent on $115 million in government grants to deploy stations...
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Dismal Outlook for EVs on Both Sides of the Atlantic
For electric vehicle enthusiasts with the “if you build it, they will come” mentality, who endorse endless taxpayer subsidies for plug-in automobiles and infrastructure to charge them, there’s bad news...
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Tesla Soaks Nevada for $1.3B in Corporate Welfare; Just the Beginning
There was little doubt that once CEO Elon Musk and Tesla announced they would locate their electric vehicle battery “Gigafactory” in Nevada, that Silver State lawmakers would vote in a special...
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