The Daily Sprout

Thomas Friedman’s Metaphor for the American Addiction to Oil: “When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body. The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate the addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction.” – NYTimes.

Coulomb Debuts New Smart Charging Infrastructure: Coulomb Technologies has announced a new public smart charging system that allows customers to sign up with a subscription and helps utilities better management grid demand – Press Release.

Congress Considering Legislation to Boost Natural Gas Cars: Following the announcement of the Pickens Plan, two new initiatives have been proposed in Congress to boost natural gas use in transportation. One proposal mandates 10 percent of new cars run on natural gas and the other proposes to include natural gas in the renewable fuels standard – Green Car Congress.

EV-1 Owners Manual On Sale on eBay: Originally offered at a million bucks, the manual for GM’s ill-fated all electric EV-1 is now up for $100,000. The price is likely to keep dropping, but the auction is set to end on Wednesday – Huffington Post.

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