Monthly Archives: March 2015
GM really did trademark “range anxiety”, only later to abandon that mark
US Government releases new regulations on hydraulic fracturing, that some call “toothless”
Today, after a review and commenting process of over 200 days in which 1.5 million individuals and groups sent in comments, the US Department of Interior (Bureau of Land Management, a.k.a. BLM) released a Rulemaking covering hydraulic fracking operations on public lands in the USA. The promise being made is…
Tesla Motors magic pill to solve range anxiety doesn’t quite instill range confidence
Update on Galena IL oil train – 21 cars involved, which were the supposedly safer CP1232 design
Yesterday, a BNSF trail carrying 103 crude oil cars derailed on tracks bordering the Mississippi River in a remote part of Illinois near Galena. Today there’s some further information which clears up some unknowns about the incident. It’s now known the fire was more extensive than thought yesterday, involving more…