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filed under Energy | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jun 5, 2008

Driving Our Way to Energy Independence

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/driving-our-way-energy-independence-2/

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.

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ILSR Press Room filed under Energy | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Jun 8, 2006

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

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/for-immediate-release-june-8-2006/

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… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Dec 5, 2005

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

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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… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Sep 18, 2005

Hybrids and biofuels would be a good fit for Minnesota

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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… Continue reading

Article filed under The Public Good | Written by David Morris | No Comments | Updated on Sep 1, 2004

Here Come the Low-Mileage Hybrids

The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/here-come-the-low-mileage-hybrids/

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… Continue reading