Technology Won't Cure U.S. Oil Addiction

President Bush said that new technology will cure the nation's oil addiction. Technology is already here; the will to use it is missing.

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February 3, 2006, 2:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Engineers have produced a basket of new technologies for making cars burn less gasoline, yet fuel standards for passenger cars in this country haven't changed in more than two decades, and fuel economy has barely budged...Technologies that could make the U.S. more energy independent sit on the shelf while the automotive industry dithers about raising the price of a car by a couple of thousand dollars..."

FULL STORY: Many ways, no will

Thursday, February 2, 2006 in The Los Angeles Times

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