"Ben, you know better than that, the only companies with better average fleet fuel economies than chevy are MINI and Honda. Every car company makes big giant SUVs now..every car company except MINI and Honda anyway." - Hank Green
"Yeah because Toyota doesn't have any gas guzzlers in it's fleet. Chevy's overall fleet efficiency is higher than Toyota. Toyota was actually in tenth place for this year's fleet efficiency. Chevy was in third after MINI and Honda." - Hank Green
"Almost all of the major technological innovations of the last 50 years were incubated by the U.S. government. Nuclear power, cell phones, and the internet all started out as government projects. And even when the innovation came out of some other place, government regulations promoted innovation. Imagine if Bell Labs had been allowed to keep its monopoly AND its patent on the transistor. What if everyone who used a transistor had to pay royalties to ATT? I don't think that would be good for innovation. The real problem here is that there are no reasons for energy companies to innovate. As mentioned in the article, the energy industry spends 10x less on their R than the average industry. It's complete stagnation, and a stagnation that's been going on for 50 years. The right answers aren't succeeding because the external costs of pollution aren't being included, and the energy companies all have semi-monopolies. There's no reason for them to come up with a solution because they don't..." - Hank Green
From the page: "Grist recently tried to pull back the curtain on Palin's environmental record. Here's a couple of our favorites from her resume in Grist's piece (in addition for her overwhelming support of opening ANWR to drilling):" - Hank Green
From the page: "Hong Kong is considering a ban on fishing trawlers in its local waters. Why? Because fish harvests are currently 30% above sustainable levels. " - Hank Green
From the page: "Destruction of the planet is reducing the outbreak of the plague, in the western U.S. at least. Yes, that plague, as in the Black Death, the one that killed about 50 million people back in the 1500s." - Hank Green
From the page: "The Iqua Vizor SUN is a kit that clips to your sun visor and at full charge can provide 20 hours of talk time, with 500 hours of standby." - Hank Green
From the page: "I love the angle that Panamas Operation Light Bulb takes. Rather than add more power to the grid (which would take the form of yet another power plant), Panama is spending $13 million to buy and distribute CFLs to its citizens to ease the strain on the grid.
The move would provide an average of two CFLs per citizen, push back the need to add 60 MW of power, and costs about one tenth of setting up another power plant." - Hank Green
From the page: "The Aqua Loop water-saving technology uses 96% less water than an equivalent Sanyo washer from just a decade ago, while still working like a washing machine." - Hank Green
