“Green technology” on The Daily Caller

There are 10 months to go before election day, and the Obama re-election campaign has already begun running a self-congratulatory TV ad. (more)

High profile bankruptcies, plunging sales, and canceled acquisitions are raising questions of whether alternative energy can fulfill its promise as the next great growth industry for Massachusetts and the nation. (more)

For the last few years, electric motorcycles have been talked about everywhere but rarely seen. (more)

Two “clean energy companies” which Barack Obama and Harry Reid have touted as creators of “green energy jobs” have joined Solyndra on the growing list of federal loan recipients facing financial turmoil and default. And a new poll indicates that voters don’t support the idea of agenda-driven federal loans to chosen corporations. (more)

The White House’s green technology revolution is sitting in an auto lot in Butler, Pa., and nobody is buying. (more)

Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt, the highly touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.” (more)

(Wired) — Newspapers could be used to power cars, a team of molecular biologists from Tulane University in New Orleans claim. (more)

The District of Columbia is quickly realizing “going green” is easier said than done. (more)

In this year’s State of the Union address, the environmental community will be looking for the president to defend the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and promise progress on the renewable energy front, in the absence of congressional action. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wind, solar and other clean energy technologies produce jobs and are essential for the country’s environment and economy, President Barack Obama said in promoting his administration’s efforts. (more)

A little over a year ago, venture capitalist John Doerr — of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byer (KPCB) — and General Electric CEO Jeffery Immelt asked, in an op-ed for the Washington Post, how the U.S was going to catch up to China in the world of green innovation and renewable energy technology? (more)

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — He stands all day, bent over noisy machines, cutting giant sheets of steel and feeding them into monster-sized presses so powerful the concrete floor rumbles beneath his size-16 feet. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — Buyers were willing to overlook Toyota’s safety troubles the last few months thanks to zero-percent financing and other deals, but as the lure of incentives fades, Toyota has a tough job: Winning over consumers who no longer trust the brand. (more)

In his State of the Union speech President Obama claimed that, “Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010.” No surprise, since for months the Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown the unemployment rate to be hovering dangerously close to 10 percent. Revised BLS numbers to show additional jobs losses in December and January with 363 out of 372 metropolitan areas in the U.S. reporting that they lost jobs in January. (more)

Earth Day is a great day for politicians to push their clean energy agenda and President Obama made this clear when he reiterated in Earth Day video message that we need to transition to a clean energy economy. Politicians say that we should use the earth’s renewable resources, most notably the wind and the sun, to power our country. Some Members of Congress are even pushing for a federal mandate that requires a predetermined percentage of our nation’s electricity from certain energy sources. The champion of ideas, as always, is Al Gore, who believes we can supply all our energy with renewable energy. But the reality is if we pursued Al Gore’s renewable energy dream, it would be American electricity consumers’ worst nightmare. (more)

NEW YORK — Nissan Motor Co. says its Leaf electric car will cost $32,780 when it goes on sale in the U.S. at the end of the year, an amount that could drive down prices on similar cars made by competitors. (more)

With an ailing economy, nearly double-digit unemployment and a sense among Washington lawmakers that something, anything, must be done to “create” jobs, politicians of both political stripes have turned to “green” jobs as the panacea to cure all ills. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — More than any auto show in recent memory, the new cars rolled out this week out at the Detroit auto show will redefine what we drive in the future. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Fisker Automotive, a high-tech startup company, said Friday it has raised $115.3 million to develop high-end hybrid cars, bringing it closer to accessing a government loan it won last year. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — The Chinese automaker BYD Co. that plans to sell an all-electric crossover vehicle in North America by year’s end says it may expand its lineup in coming years. (more)