Links tagged “green jobs”
- Analysis finds electric cars depreciate much faster than conventional cars
Plug-ins are worth less compared to their original value over five years than conventionals - Pure electric cars take a bigger hit than plug-in hybrids - Many electric cars qualify for a federal tax credit of up to $7,500, plus state or local incentives. Big discounts on new cars hurt residual values.
- Cheers! Europe Rolls Back Green Energy Policies
- Gore-backed (and US govt-backed) Fisker Automotive delivers $100,000 plug-in hybrid lemon to Consumer Reports; inexplicably broke down after 180 miles of testing
'One of Fisker primary financial backers is venture captital firm, Kleiner Perkins, of which Gore is a partner. Fisker received a $528.7 million conditional loan from Dept. of Energy's...That's a LOT of money to produce only 200-300 thus far, some of which seem to be lemons. This is same company that caught flak because after it secured US govt financing, started assembling their cars in – Finland. Fisker seems headed for same fate as Solyndra'
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Justice Kagan channels scary climate model predictions & warns parts of East Coast could be ‘swallowed by the ocean’ in dissent in EPA case
“If the current rate of emissions continues, children born this year could live to see parts of the Eastern seaboard swallowed by the ocean,” Kagan wrote in her dissent. ...
Kagan said the dangers of rising temperatures and, as a result, devastating environmental effects, including, "Rising waters, scorching heat, and other severe weather conditions [that] could force ‘mass migration events[,] political crises, civil unrest,’ and even state failure.'"
- The New Pause Lengthens to 7 Years 10 Months – No global warming since 2014
- Satellite temperature: Global temps cool in June
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Climate Activist Prof. Dessler seeks to eliminate record-breaking 1930s EPA heatwave chart
