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Today marks the end of a month Airbus and Boeing would like to forget. Both companies endured in-flight emergencies with their latest airliners that required grounding the aircraft.
The trouble started for Airbus on Nov. 4 when an A380 experienced an uncontained engine failure shortly after takeoff in Singapore. The plan had to return to the [...]

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Al Gore admits supporting corn ethanol subsidies was a mistake

Filed under: Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA

Former Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore has changed his stance concerning ethanol. As vice president, Gore created subsidies for corn-based ethanol. The move, it turns out, was aimed more towards garnering votes for his upcoming presidential run than doing what's best for the environment. At a recent green energy conference in Athens, Greece, Gore said:

It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol. One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president.

The process to turn corn to ethanol - i.e., first-generation ethanol - is pretty inefficient, using tons of water with only modest energy returns. In 2008, the bio-fuel industry got flak for larger and larger quantities of the corn crops being used to create ethanol resulting in a rise in food prices. Even with his admission that he was more about the votes than the science in the ethanol debate, he has not completely abandoned the biofuel. He now favors what is called second-generation ethanol, which uses farm waste and switchgrass instead of corn to produce the fuel.

Responding to Gore's change of heart, Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis repeated an invitation for Gore to visit a modern ethanol plant:

Mr. Vice President, what you may not realize is that ethanol is the commercially viable alternative to oil that we have today. Every day, America's ethanol producers are developing technological improvements to increase efficiency, reduce water use, and boost the amount of energy derived from grain and from cellulosic biomass. Ethanol is more energy efficient to produce than conventional gasoline; for every one Btu put into creating ethanol, there is a 2.3 Btu return. Mr. Vice President, my original offer still stands. I invite you to visit any one of the 67 ethanol plants across the country that are members of Growth Energy, to see for yourself what grain ethanol has done - and what it has the potential to do - for our country.

For exactly the same reasons Gore supported ethanol while in office, federal ethanol subsidies are probably not disappearing anytime soon. The $7.7 billion in subsidies last year are a small price to pay to keep the farmers' and bio-fuel industry's votes.

[Source: Politics Daily, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal | Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images]

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Anderson Germany White Racing Edition Lamborghini Gallardo Released

While Lamborghini is busy releasing one special edition Gallardo after another, the tuning companies are also working hard to develop new aftermarket packages for the supercar. We have to mention that the Gallardo isn't just the most successful model in Lamborghini's history, but also a big star on the tuning scene.

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The vehicle is part of the Verband Deutscher Automobil Tuner's. (VDAT) TUNE IT SAFE! project, being the sixth release of the campaign, which aims to combine high tuning standards with a maximum safety level.

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Yogomo Makes EV Knockoff Citroen C1

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One such car is made by Yogomo, a small Chinese company that focuses on small vehicles. The four-door model they created seems to copy elements from the Citroen C1, Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo. First, there is the front fascia that l...

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2011 Volvo S60, S80, XC60 And XC70 Models Recalled Because Of Stalling Engines

Volvo is blaming a software glitch for its latest recall of all 2011 model year S60 and S80 sedans and XC60 and XC70 crossovers. A total of 6,046 vehicles are involved in the latest recall, which is scheduled to take effect on December 10, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). "The software calibration for the...

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