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[Ford Motor Company - digital snippets » Cars - text] Finally”¦ A Car for the Environmentally Progressive - Ford Motor ...: We call it purity on wheels.” - Kevin Smith, Editorial Director of Edmunds.com and one of 19 national automotive editors and journalists who selected the winner of the EWP award “Ford has worked diligently to make the Fusion Hybrid America’s most fuel-efficient midsize sedan. It is very gratifying to see our hard work recognized by some of the most prominent automotive journalists in the country through the EWP award.” - Jonathan Richards, Fusion Marketing Manager

[AutoNewscast.com] 2010 FORD FUSION HYBRID WINS MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY PROGRESSIVE CAR ...: “Ford’s Fusion Hybrid sedan has the styling punch of a powerhouse with authority built into the design,” said Kevin Smith, editorial director of Edmunds.com and one of 19 national automotive editors and journalists who selected the winner of the EWP award. “With unsurpassed fuel economy, this car has real ecological know-how.

[automobiles.com] Ford Fusion Hybrid Wins Most Environmentally Progressive Car of ...: The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid was named Most Environmentally Progressive Car of the Year by Earth, Wind & Powerâ™ (EWP) at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

[CanadianDriver] CanadianDriver » Audi » 2010 Most Environmentally Progressive vehicles: Power (EWP) car and truck of the year were officially revealed today at the Los Angeles Marriott Downtown.  The awards are produced and hosted by Courtney Caldwell, publisher of Earth, Wind & Power Media, with co-hosts Kevin Smith, editorial director of Edmunds.com, and Howard Walker, auto editor for Palm Beach Illustrated.  The three announced the winners for the most environmentally progressive car and truck of the year.

[Company News: Pages] @Ford: “Ford’s Fusion Hybrid sedan has the styling punch of a powerhouse with authority built into the design,” said Kevin Smith, editorial director of Edmunds.com and one of 19 national automotive editors and journalists who selected the winner of the EWP award. “With unsurpassed fuel economy, this car has real ecological know-how.

[PDA National News] European Legislation Creates 62 MPG Gas Cars”¦ From Ford ...: As long ago as 2006, polls of Americans showed that we realize that we don’t get what the Europeans do, and wanted an average fuel economy of 40 MPG legislated. Yet we keep supporting those who encourage us to heap contempt on Europe for signing Kyoto and passing climate and energy legislation.

[CleanMPG.com - News Feed] 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid Wins Most Environmentally Progressive Car ...: "Ford’s Fusion Hybrid sedan has the styling punch of a powerhouse with authority built into the design," said Kevin Smith, editorial director of Edmunds.com and one of 19 national automotive editors and journalists who selected the winner of the EWP award.

[KickingTires] Audi and Ford Nab Eco-Friendly Awards - KickingTires: Wiesenfelder said, "but ultimately the jury found the 50-state-legal Audi diesel and the comfortable, refined Fusion Hybrid the most progressive entries this year."

[Auto Tech - Progressive Insurance Blogs] Auto-Tech - New York Auto Show: The Power of Green: Also looking to the future, the X PRIZE Foundation and Progressive jointly announced the $10 million dollar Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, which invites teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that get 100 mpg that people want to buy.

[Marc Gunther's latest column/blog post] The strange power of prizes | Marc Gunther: Prizes and rewards may be “fun” but they’re also the surest way to discourage the sustainable behavior change that is needed as individuals and within companies. I’d say the best way to isolate and handcuff sustainable innovation is to treat it as a contest or competition and to basically bribe people and companies to change.

[Auto Tech - Progressive Insurance Blogs] Auto-Tech - Hybrids: Need-to-Know Info to Make the Right Choice: Today's most popular hybrids use a combination of electric motor and internal combustion engine (ICE) technologies, the latter of which can run on gasoline, ethanol or diesel fuel. The result is an easy-to-maintain vehicle that maximizes fuel economy, reduces oil consumption and fuel expenditures, and helps lower environmentally harmful emissions.

[MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum] Obama and the Chinese Tires | Mother Jones: And just as with Bush's tariffs, my guess is that a white hot Chinese reaction will be quite enough to turn him around even if he did have plans for a more protectionist trade policy. (Note, for example, that this decision was announced late on Friday, the usual dumping ground for things that you'd just as soon not have to defend very vigorously.) 

[Buy-Expensive-Cars.com] Our Gas Will Soon Have More Ethanol | Buy-Expensive-Cars.com: Eager to help decrease our greenhouse gas emissions, spur job growth and foster the development of cellulosic ethanol, the ethanol industry wants the Environmental Protection Agency to increase the amount of ethanol blended with gasoline from 10 to 15 percent. The feds appear willing to play along, and the EPA says it expects to make a decision by the middle of next year.

[Economix] Workers of the World, Incorporate - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com: Henry Ford, not exactly a liberal progressive, understood that, he helped builld the modern auto industry when he paid his workers well enough to be able to afford a car, something the rest of the industry had eschewed in favor of building for the well off. Todays neo 19th century capitalism can only see cheap labor and its ‘cheapness’, they don’t seem to understand that cutting out the middle and working classes from decent wages is a way to lead to becoming a third world country, they cry about people using credit to buy things, but then don’t realize why that happens, or that the Chinese lend us mon ey to buy their goods because their own people cannot.

[Car Advice | News Blog] Ford opens $20m research facility : Car Advice | News Blog: The new $20 million Advanced Centre for Automotive Research and Testing (ACART) comprises a multi-fuel emissions cell, an environmental testing laboratory and an engine dynamometer facility. ACART provides Australian automotive companies and suppliers with access to .

[God's Politics Blog] What Happens When a Wheaton Grad Runs for Congress as a Democrat ...: I encourage Christians to run whenever possible, but mostly because of a self-interested trust in their judgment and composition (by self-interest I do not mean personal interest, but rather policies I care about). I regret to admit that I do take into account their denominational background when voting, but I do this because in an election I have the civic duty to judge character and pick the better leader.

[Debate on the Web] Chomsky: American Democracy Is Nothing But Media Performance Art ...: The same techniques, it was hoped, would ensure that the “intelligent minorities” would rule, undisturbed by “the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd,” the general public, “ignorant and meddlesome outsiders” whose “function” is to be “spectators,” not “participants.” This was a central theme of the highly regarded “progressive essays on democracy” by the leading public intellectual of the twentieth century (Lippmann), whose thinking captures well the perceptions of progressive intellectual opinion: President Wilson, for example, held that an elite of gentlemen with “elevated ideals” must be empowered to preserve “stability and righteousness,” essentially the Madisonian perspective. In more recent years, the gentlemen are transmuted into the “technocratic elite” and “action intellectuals” of Camelot, “Straussian” neocons, or other configurations.

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