UPS trucks go hydraulic hybrid; 60-70% better fuel economy!
"Who killed the electric car?"
"Who killed the hydraulic truck?" (write Obama)
Since they are so much more efficient, smaller electric motors can be used with the batteries lasting longer. No gas/diesel engines needed!
* The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its industry partners unveiled an innovative new technology vehicle – the first-ever delivery van with a full series hydraulic hybrid drivetrain in a UPS vehicle.
* EPA is leading the development of hydraulic hybrid vehicles. This breakthrough technology can cost-effectively reduce emissions and drastically reduce fuel consumption while maintaining or improving performance.
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Clean-up Continues as BP Flow of Oil in Gulf Remains Halted
COLLEEN LONG, HARRY R. WEBER Associated Press Writers - 3:29 p.m. EDT, July 16, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP said its capped-off well appeared to be holding steady Friday as a white-knuckle waiting period ticked by with engineers watching pressure gauges for signs of a leak.
Results monitored from control rooms on ships at sea and hundreds of miles away at the company's U.S. headquarters in Houston showed the oil staying inside the cap, rather than escaping through any undiscovered breaches, BP PLC vice president Kent Wells said on a morning conference call.
Four underwater robots scoured the sea floor but had also found no signs of new leaks, he said.
BP and government scientists huddled Friday afternoon to discuss the first 24 hours of pressure readings as they sought to determine whether they can keep the gusher sealed off or have to release some of the flow and funnel it up to vessels on the surface.
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Japan Offering Prostitutes to Sway Whaling Votes
Japan Offered Prostitutes to International Whaling Commission members to Sway Whaling Votes
The Sunday Times, London. - June 13, 2010
June 14 2010 - AOL NEWS - Dana Kennedy
Japanese officials filmed bribing six small nations with offers of cash and call girls in return for their votes in favor of slaughtering whales, in a British newspaper investigation: The Times, London.
Japan denies the accusations, but The Sunday Times reported that two of its journalists filmed government officials from six countries admitting they were bribed by Japan to vote with the pro-whalers.
News of the sting comes as Japan seeks to overturn a 24-year moratorium on commercial whaling at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission next week in Agadir, Morocco.
"I don't think the international legal community has come up with a term yet to describe this blatant, purchasing of small country governments by Japan. I mean, that has to go down in legal history as being at the high end of public sector extortion."
-- Former Dominica Minister of Fisheries, Atherton Martin, reported on ABC TV, 18 July 2005
California PG&E spending over $46 million to stop competition
California PG&E trying to monopolize energy production and squeeze out competition across the entire state.
By Erin Milnes; June 5, 2010
If passed, Proposition 16 will amend the California constitution to require two-thirds voter approval before a local government can establish a community choice aggregator, or CCA, an energy-supply approach a bit like a buying co-op, in which municipalities group together to purchase electricity wholesale. The two-thirds "super majority" requirement would make it harder – some say nearly impossible – for communities to leave their incumbent private utility and compete in the electricity market.
Michael R. Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates the state's three large private utility companies, and himself a former president of Southern California Edison Co., has been quoted as saying Proposition 16 embodies a "blatant misuse" of the election process. He presented that view as his own and not the official position of the commission, which is not commenting on the measure. In an opinion article published in the San Jose Mercury News, Mr. Peevey said, "Pure and simple, Proposition 16 is a clever, brazen, buzzword-driven effort by one company to manipulate the California Constitution to protect its current monopoly."
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Deep Water Horizon Oil spill, no prevention, clean-up workers getting sick
BERNARD LAGAN, May 31, 2010
In the US, which assumes no engineering challenge is beyond conquer - nor does it lack the private capital to achieve it - the brackish rouge beneath the waves that is slowly strangling the Louisiana shore not only stains the sea and the sands, that creeping black is also gutting confidence, upturning myths and ruining reputations.
When Americans learned at the weekend that British Petroleum (BP) - which drilled the hole in the seabed nearly two kilometres under the sea - had attempted to seal it 16 times since Thursday by forcing shredded rope, plastics, old tyres and even golf balls into the failed, four-story high blow-out preventer, the crudity of the assault seemed strangely out of step with our times.
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Energy saving work being sabotaged!
IMPORTANT UPDATE 
THE ORION PROJECT
May 13, 2010
For the past two years, The Orion Project has worked to raise funds to build a facility where we can bring scientists and inventors together in a peaceful type of Manhattan Project for energy - to develop new sources of energy that will get us off the fossil fuel economy. We have also worked to identify scientists and inventors capable of this work. For the past hundred years, scientists such as Nicola Tesla have worked on such devices. The fact that many have tried, and we are still using predominantly fossil fuels - the same fuels used in the 1800s - can be illustrated by our recent experience.
We reported last December that we had under contract a very talented scientist who wanted to work with us. Because he still is doing work for a private company that is linked to the Intelligence Community, he preferred working with his identity concealed. A side note is that he had agreed to work with us in the fall of 2008. At that time, he met with the Board of Directors and took a contract home to read and sign, but called us within three days saying that he was being deployed abroad for fifteen months. We heard nothing else from him until a year later - precisely after Dr. Greer publicly disclosed the energy briefing he had put together for President Obama.
He resurfaced and said that he wanted to work with us to develop new energy technologies. He met with the Board of Directors again. He assured us that he was cleared by his "shepherds" in the Intelligence Community to work with us to build advanced energy systems, but he was not allowed to work on advanced propulsion systems - that is, he could build systems to power our houses and businesses, but he would not be allowed to reproduce the advanced propulsion systems he has developed in the past.
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BP’s Slick Greenwashing
The petroleum giant tried to sell itself as a green industry leader. That was just an oily tactic.
By James Ridgeway | Tue May. 4, 2010 5:30 AM PDT 
For the last decade, BP has been busily engaged in a multi-million-dollar greenwashing campaign. Changing its name from British Petroleum to BP, the company adopted a new slogan, "Beyond Petroleum," and began a "rebranding" effort to depict itself as a public-spirited, environmentally sensitive, green energy enterprise, the very model of 21st century corporate responsibility.
It’s going to take more than a name change and a clever ad campaign to erase the image of oil spreading across the Gulf Coast [1] from BP’s offshore rig, and dead wildlife washing up onto beaches. Even as the company magnanimously agreed to cover the costs of cleaning up the mammoth spill, BP on Monday was still insisting that it wasn’t at fault [2]for the accident that caused it—instead blaming the offshore drilling contractor that operated the rig. So much for corporate accountability.
No Mine Safety; M.S.H.A. “riddled with loopholes”; 28 Dead.
April 15, 2010
Congrats to all the corporate thugs putting profits ahead of human safety,
President Obama on Thursday ordered a fresh round of coal mine inspections and a far-reaching review of mine safety, and said the federal government was partly to blame for the explosion that claimed 29 lives at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia this month.
"There’s still a lot that we don’t know," Mr. Obama said, during a brief appearance in the Rose Garden. "But we do know that this tragedy was triggered by a failure at the Upper Big Branch mine - a failure first and foremost of management, but also a failure of oversight and a failure of laws so riddled with loopholes that they allow unsafe conditions to continue."
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Big Energy Firms Blocking Solar Power in Georgia and Washington
ATLANTA, Georgia, Mar 31, 2010 (IPS) The Atlanta Progressive News, updated, Friday, April 9, 2010
As citizens, businesses and non-profit organizations seek to transition to cleaner power sources like solar and wind, some big energy firms whose business models rely on polluting sources are standing in the way.
In Georgia, the energy company Georgia Power has lobbied for, and gotten, public policies at the Public Service Commission (PSC) and State legislature that are making it difficult for the state's residents to transition to solar power. The Dekalb County school system wanted to put solar panels on their schools, but could not do it because of state policies like the Territorial Electric Service Act of 1973 which gives Georgia Power a monopoly over the purchase of energy.
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We need electric, fuel efficient vehicles
Enough is enough! ALL NEW vehicles and all new ships and boats should be plug-in electric or 100% electric by Obama's 2015 deadline [or get 100 mpg!].
There have been many, potentially, very valuable inventions that have been killed by the long arms of the oil companies if the invention threatened their profits. Others, correctly wary of their inventions being stolen, took them to their graves, rather than give them to the world for free (and in a few cases, "the threatened rich" made sure it happened before they changed their minds). This web site is here to expose the hidden past and broadcast what is happening now.
past and present:
Pogue super carburetor 1936 US patent |
A Few Magnet Motors 1905 . . . |
MYT Engine NASA 1st prize, 2006 |
| Dennis Klein’s Hydrogen Generator  2007 |
The Revetec X4v2 2006 |
Tesla's Radient (Dark) Energy Generators 1901 |
employment in the U.S. has been steadily improving since Obama took office
April 2nd 2010
Earlier today, the Labor Department released its employment report for March 2010, which found that "employment in the U.S. increased in March by the most in three years" signaling that the "economic recovery will be sustained."
people hired - people laid off = Jobs Lost. Finally, more hired than laid off!
Some Republicans have falsely claimed that the numbers are "mostly" due to hiring Census workers, others lied that this is only one month, not a trend, but of the 162,000 jobs added to the economy last month, 123,000 were in the private sector, and the graph (above) shows clearly the disaster Bush and the Republicans in congress were dragging us down toward, and the decided reversal instantly after Obama took office. This is not just a one month "tic" or "blip".
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U.S. Stuck In Reverse on fuel economy
Only two 40+ mpg cars available, down from five, study shows
By Roland JonesAssociate editor MSNBC, ET Feb 28, 2007
While Congress and the Bush administration debate how to improve fuel economy in automobiles, a new study says the United States is "stuck in reverse" when it comes to offering consumers a wide selection of fuel-efficient vehicles.
In his State of the Union address this month, Bush asked for authority to reform the fuel economy program as part of a broader plan to curb gasoline consumption by 20 ("adjusted" = only 8%) percent over the next decade. [but, even that is a lie. He intends to create "a sliding mileage scale" to wreck even that:]
The Bush administration recently revamped [relaxed] the rules for light trucks, creating a sliding mileage scale that is based on a vehicle's size. Now Bush wants to assign a similar measure to passenger cars. (making the rules more relaxed not more demanding. So - no incentive to improve)
The American people are not the problem, it is the "partners" of big oil in Washington.
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American oil money is now pumping Global Warming denials world-wide
Climate Change Deniers Without Borders
American oil money is pumping up climate change skeptics abroad. Could they kneecap a post-Copenhagen accord?
By Josh Harkinson, Tue Dec. 22, 2009 3:59 AM PST
Writing two weeks ago in Poland's most popular tabloid, the Super Express, an economic analyst named Tomasz Teluk [funded by ExxonMobil] claimed that a potential climate agreement in Copenhagen might double Poles' electricity bills, hobble his coal-dependent country, and even lead to one-world government. "Fortunately," he wrote, the "global warming scare" has been hugely overblown: "As each of us learned in elementary school, carbon dioxide is a gas essential to the development of life, not a poison, so you do not have to eliminate it at any price."
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Copenhagen; Carbon trading crime is at 90%
charging VAT that is never paid
Carbon trading fraudsters may have accounted for up to 90% of all market activity in some European countries, with criminals pocketing billions, mainly in Britain, France, Spain, Denmark and Holland, according to Europol, the European law enforcement agency.
By Rowena Mason; 10:27AM GMT 10 Dec 2009; updated Dec. 21st 2009
The revelation caused embarrassment for European Union negotiators at the Copenhagen climate change summit yesterday, where they have been pushing for an expansion of their system across the globe to penalise heavy emitters of carbon dioxide. Rob Wainwright, the director of serious crime squad, said large-scale organised criminal activity had "endangered the credibility" of the current carbon trading system.
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Bluefin tuna will be ‘wiped out in three years’
From correspondents in Madrid, Spain; April 14, 2009 10:35am
OVERFISHING will wipe out the breeding population of Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the ocean's largest and fastest predators, in three years unless catches are dramatically reduced, conservation group WWF said. As European fishing fleets prepare for the two-month Mediterranean fishing season which opens tomorrow, WWF said its analysis showed the bluefin tuna that spawn - those aged four years and older - will have disappeared by 2012 at current rates.
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contact Obama! 