First time a diesel has won the award!
LA 2008 Green Car of the Year
We’re waiting for the wagon version at our local dealership… it might be a while they tell us.
Where are all the hatchbacks and wagons?

There was a segment on 60 minutes tonight, exposing the illegal exporting of e-waste to china, where it is broken down in conditions that have contributed to health problems for citizens of the region.
Electronic Wasteland
Unfortunately, they didn’t really offer any solutions or suggestions on what we might do about it.
I think it is important to [...]

Thomas Friedman’s excellent new op-ed, Flush with Energy, contains this startling stat:
Denmark today gets nearly 20 percent of its electricity from wind. America? About 1 percent.
What are we doing here?
I don’t agree with everything position Obama takes, I think he could be even stronger in his plans to break our addiction to oil… but, it [...]

you have to click through to this article, just for the picture if nothing else: Gas-Tax Holiday = Cheap Votes
a gas-tax holiday is the worst idea i have ever heard. it will save you $30. it will create more profits for oil companies (as they raise prices to fill the gap), it will set back [...]

Smog over Downtown, originally uploaded by ajc3.

Just arrived at Matt’s safe and sound. He’s in the shower, and Madeline is sleeping so I thought I’d post a quick picture. This was taken out of the window of the plane as we were landing. Downtown LA is barely visible in the smog.

I filled up my vehicle with BioDiesel Fuel today. A blend probably, since it’s still liable to snow at any time around here.
I haven’t filled up since February 22. I drove 550, mostly city, miles. I pumped just under 14 gallons. (40 mpg) The cost per gallon was $3.94.
We need to raise the gas tax, [...]

This is an excellent article. A great summary of why corn and grass ethanol is a bad idea.
The Great Corn Con -The Senate’s preposterous new ethanol bill.
Key quotes:
So, even if Congress mandated that all of America’s corn be turned into ethanol, it would yield only about 28.3 billion gallons, far less than the mandated volume. [...]