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5 Jun 2008

Report: Driving Our Way to Energy Independence

by David Morris | Date: 5 Jun 2008 | posted in: Energy | 0

Updating our pathbreaking 2003 report, this June 2008 report by David Morris describes how commercially available technologies today could transform our petroleum powered transportation system into one powered by electricity and biofuels. Provisions in the recently passed Energy Act could accelerate that transformation. With the adoption of complementary policies, the revolution in our transportation sector can generate an equally profound revolution in our electricity sector. Hundreds of thousands of locally owned wind turbines and solar electric arrays supplying flexible fueled, plug-in hybrid vehicles can allow tens of millions of Americans to become energy producers not just energy consumers.

8 Jun 2006

Kicking Our Oil Addiction: Minnesota Becomes First State to Endorse an Electric-Alcohol Strategy

by David Morris | Date: 8 Jun 2006 | posted in: Energy, Press Release | 0

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 8, 2006 Contact: David Morris, 612-276-3456, dmorris@ilsr.org Kicking Our Oil Addiction: Minnesota Becomes First State to Endorse an Electric-Alcohol Strategy Minneapolis, MN – Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has signed into law H.F. 3718, the nation’s first law promoting plug-in hybrid, flexible-fueled vehicles. The legislation – inspired by the Institute for Local … Read More

5 Dec 2005

Business Forum: Ford can find its way by looking to future

by David Morris | Date: 5 Dec 2005 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0

Business Forum: Ford can find its way by looking to future by David Morris Originally published in Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 5, 2005 The imminent eclipse of General Motors by Toyota as the world’s largest car manufacturer was decades in the making. We will read many instructive tales about how General Motors, and U.S. car companies … Read More

18 Sep 2005

Hybrids and biofuels would be a good fit for Minnesota

by David Morris | Date: 18 Sep 2005 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0

Hybrids and biofuels would be a good fit for Minnesota by David Morris Originally published in Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 18, 2005 In the aftermath of Katrina’s fury, and the passage of a remarkably weak and largely irrelevant federal energy bill, Americans have learned two important lessons. We need desperately and rapidly to eliminate our dependence … Read More

1 Sep 2004

Here Come the Low-Mileage Hybrids

by David Morris | Date: 1 Sep 2004 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0

Here Come the Low-Mileage Hybrids by David Morris Originally published in Alternet, September 1, 2004 Equating a hybrid with a high-efficiency car was sufficient so long as a hybrid was a high-efficiency car. Enter the Ford Escape – it ain’t no Prius. The introduction by Ford this month of a hybrid SUV marks the end of … Read More