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Nuclear Waste, Yucca Mountain, and Fukushima: “This is not a place of honor”

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The Electric Vehicle Acceptance Tipping Point: $5-A-Gallon Gas

It would be a disaster economically, upsetting family budgets and making the transporting of goods potentially next to impossible. But according to a new survey by Deloitte, it could take something as extreme as $5-per-gallon of gas to persuade most U.S. citizens to abandon gas stations and SUVs and buy electric vehicles. Do we have to destroy this village in order to save it?

For most of the last month, the national average gas price in the U.S. has nudged upwards every single day--it's now at around $3.83 per gallon. In six states, including New York, the average price is above $4, with Hawaii topping the list at $4.48 per gallon. And there are reports that a few stations have already hit the $5 mark. It's all thanks to a gradual but continuous rise in the price of oil on global markets--up 48% since last Labor Day. This upward creep is driven by many things, including market fluctuations, decisions about production made by OPEC, and the rise of civil unrest in the Middle East (especially in Libya, which has ceased its oil exports during the civil war). And yet, despite these growing costs, and the fact we know for sure that every mile we drive in a car that eats gas or diesel, we're actively contributing to global warming, many of us continue to drive cars.

What will it take to change the situation, pushing most Americans to ditch their SUV and buy an eco-friendly electric car? An arbitrary price limit, that's what--the point at which gas hits $5 per gallon.

That's what Deloitte found after interviewing 12,000 people worldwide, with more than 1,000 respondents in the U.S. The main conclusion of the survey is that the higher gas prices go, the more consumers favor the notion of electric vehicles. That seems like a no-brainer (even someone poor at math can imagine the increased cost of running a car as gas prices rise), but it's still an important conclusion given that gas prices are definitely increasing and unlikely to drop any time soon.

When gas hits $5 per gallon, 78% of Americans surveyed said they'd consider purchasing an electric vehicle. But U.S. consumers actually expect to have their cake and eat it: Over 50% aren't willing to pay any premium at all for an electric vehicle over a gas-powered one, and over 77% expect to pay less than $30,000. The average consumer also expects EVs to be able to cover 200-300 miles on a single charge, versus the current truth of around 100 miles. And 60% of Americans said two hours or less was the maximum they'd be prepared to wait for a full battery charge, (only 23% of responders said the typical overnight charge of 8 hours was acceptable.)

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Keiser Report: Eco-Eco Disasters

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about eco-eco disasters, JP... more

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The Green Rant: Show us what you've got

It started innocently enough. I finished off my almond milk, opened up the cabinet... more

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The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth

"The photographers were charged with three broad goals: 'to photograph... more

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Coca-Cola Bottling Company reinforces commitment to environment with expansion of hybrid-electric fl

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CSR Minute: Timberland's Haiti Help Campaigns; American Cancer Society's Award

Corporate Social Responsibility News: Timberland's Climate and Haiti Help... more

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Microorganism keeps fruits fresher for longer

Millions of fruits seem to go to waste every year, say the US Department of... more

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Kite energy works best with higher altitudes

Italian wind energy company KiteGen Research has created a new method for gaining... more

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Dubai: blending solar power and vertical architecture

Dubai has been the innovator of some amazing architecture over the recent years, and... more

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The secrets of Biodynamics

Read this, it is brilliant. "Biodynamics has been considered by some as the... more

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Architectural design shows a world where water is precious

Imagine what the world would look like if water became extremely scarce...I'm... more

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Shanxi polluted with disabities both humane and environmental .

The rate of birth defects in this region is six times higher than the national... more

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23 most heart touching WWF advertisments

Some of these make me wanna cry! I guess they're pretty effective.

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Enormous environmental catastrophe in Tennessee

Here we have one of the biggest environmental disasters in our nations history and the... more

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Will Green Progress Be Stalled by the Bad Economy?

Environmentalists can't decide whether to celebrate the recession or dread it.... more

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10 audacious ideas to save the planet

To rescue the Earth, we need bold engineering ideas that go beyond simple recycling.... more

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Hawaii man invents solar cooker

A Hawaii inventor has developed something he believes could change the world.... more

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Will polar bears finally get on the endangered species list?

A federal judge ruled April 28 that the U.S. Department of the Interior must stop... more

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US Post Office says NO to reusing boxes

A Castle Rock man has been warned that reusing a United States Postal Service... more

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