I am working on two essays, but it is going to be a couple more days before I have either one of them finished. One is about the recent USDA report on the energy return of corn ethanol. This essay will include a look back at how the USDA's methodology ...

I am back home in Hawaii, and over the next few days hope my schedule settles down to normal. I am aware of some lingering technical issues that need to be resolved on the blog (e.g., some of the comments have not been successfully imported from the old blog - ...

The plant will be the first electric motor manufacturing facility in the U.S. operated by a major automaker.

The company plans to mass-produce the EV's by 2012, but will begin the intial phase with the production of 50,000 vehicles next year.

With more than 200,000 vehicles, the USPS can make a significant impact if they were to revamp their fleet.