This nice infographic from the NYT shows gas prices around the nation and where they're taking the biggest toll. It looks like people in...
Gas stations-little areas off the highway that put dwindling supplies of polluting fossil fuels in our inneficient internal-combustion-engine...
We're happy to share the submissions to our Gas Stations of the Future project. They range from the technical to the satirical. Check them out...
On the heels of my post about gas prices and rural America, here's a map showing how much people would be spending on gas if prices spiked to 2008...
Leading the Charge
A fleet of electric vehicles may seem like a remote reality right now, but if the corporate world is betting right, it is...
The supercheap Tata Nano car, which we've written about quite a bit in this blog, has a problem: spontaneous combustion.
Over the last year, a...
Not only does gas cost $500 a gallon (this is an exaggeration, nowhere in America has gas even reached the $100 a gallon mark), but according...
Back in 2007, everyone was talking about the "pain at the pump." But did that change what people drive? This infographic by Chris Svetlik looks at...
Next Generation Healthcare has an interesting graphic showing how many deaths there are from road traffic accidents in different parts of the...
As if motorcycles weren't impressive enough already, now they're starting to shed the terribly un-hip (by modern standards) internal combustion...
Here's a nice bit of news for those who care about reducing fossil fuel consumption: Californians are buying less gas. The news is especially...
Where does your money go when you pay for a gallon of gas? How much money are oil companies making? What affects the price of gas in the United...
In Oregon, declining gas tax revenues are prompting the state to look into some wacky new ways of getting money from drivers. The LA Times...
Obama and his rail-boosting vice president made a big PR push for high-speed rail this morning. There aren't any real surprises in the routes they...
Over at The New York Times' Economix blog, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser is trying to model the costs and benefits of building a...
The Harvard economist Edward Glaeser (pictured) wrote a four-post series in The New York Times recently arguing that high-speed rail won't work...
When we talk about what makes a community bike-friendly, the discussion often focuses on the physical infrastructure: bike lanes and bike racks...
Just so you know: That historic decline in miles driven in the United States may be over. From USA Today:
Using 12-month averages, the study...
What was once a promising electric vehicle venture might be losing some steam, according to a recent article on Treehugger, which measures the...
Electric bikes have really taken off in China. Between 1998 and 2009, China went from around 56,000 electric bikes to 120 million. Sales are...
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