By Letters To The Editor | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: August 12, 2018 at 1:21 pm | UPDATED: August 12, 2018 at 1:22 pm With new technologies, fuelstandards won’t matter Despite what Dianne Feinstein and Ken Kimmell stated in “Fuel standards will have dire consequences” (Opinion section, Aug. 9), this doesn’t have to be. The answers are electric cars and extended range hybrids. With either of these technologies, we won’t care about fuel standards. They already have widespread acceptance in California and the world. India has set a goal of 100 percent electric cars, as does Germany and Great Britain, among many other nations. What’s needed is political action by our elected officials to overcome any opposition to charging in the off-peak hours. For homeowners this is easy. Simply add the correct outlet in your garage or other dedicated night parking area. For renters this is different story. Those outlets need to be provided by the rental owner. … [Read more...] about Letter: Fuel standards won’t matter with new technologies
Standard
The Big Interview: Standard Life Aberdeen CEO Keith Skeoch
0 Have your say In the cutthroat world of high finance it’s hard to imagine a marriage made in heaven – or a shotgun consolidation in which nobody loses face. Hence the scepticism – after the £11 billion mega-merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management (AAM) – which greeted news that their respective bosses, Keith Skeoch and Martin Gilbert, would both have their hands on the tiller of the diplomatically titled Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA). But a year on, Skeoch is insistent that, far from having created a two-headed monster, the merger is going “brilliantly well”, not least because of the symbiotic relationship he has with his opposite number – who can share a joke.“We get on really well with each other. We respect each other,” he says, acknowledging that he and Gilbert are “two very, very different people” with contrasting strengths. “He covers a lot of stuff that I … [Read more...] about The Big Interview: Standard Life Aberdeen CEO Keith Skeoch
Facing a potential rollback of fuel standards, we look at fuel economy and emissions through the years
By Kurt Snibbe | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: August 11, 2018 at 11:00 am | UPDATED: August 11, 2018 at 11:00 am Fuel economy in the U.S. has improved since the gas crisis in the 1970s. Earlier this month the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation issued a proposed ruling to roll back some goals for greater fuel economy set in 2012. What would that mean for California and the nation? The proposal The proposal would: Freeze the fuel economy goals at the 2021 target of 37 mpg Halt requirements on the production of hybrid and electric cars Eliminate the legal waiver that allows states such as California to set higher standards National average car mileage The Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards are regulations enacted by Congress in 1975, after the 1973-74 Arab Oil Embargo, to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks made in the U.S. Cars that get 40-plus mpg The number of cars with gas mileage of 40 mpg or greater … [Read more...] about Facing a potential rollback of fuel standards, we look at fuel economy and emissions through the years
Rodriguez Elementary to close at end of year after failing to meet accountability standards
By Alia Malik Published 4:13 pm CDT, Friday, August 10, 2018 Photo: Google Maps Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Rodriguez Elementary Rodriguez Elementary Photo: Google Maps Rodriguez Elementary to close at end of year after failing to meet accountability standards 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Rodriguez Elementary School will close at the end of the coming school year after after failing to meet state accountability standards for the fifth year in a row, according to San Antonio ISD officials. According to a statement from the district, students' parents were informed last spring of possible consequences under House Bill 1842 if a school received four or more consecutive "improvement required" ratings. The decision to close the school came after consulting with the state and Texas Education Agency. … [Read more...] about Rodriguez Elementary to close at end of year after failing to meet accountability standards
Nolte: Weekly Standard Cheers Big Tech Blacklisting Infowars; Calls for More
The anti-Trump Weekly Standard (TWS) is calling for social media outlets like Facebook and YouTube to expand their blacklists of people and organizations like Alex Jones and Infowars. In his call for online purity, a purity that will be defined by bubbled billionaire Tech Czars, TWS’s Jonathan Last offers a false and intellectually lazy choice:Maybe you think that the public square the Internet has created over the last decade is healthy and optimal. If so, then banning Alex Jones is a bad idea. But if you look around online communities and think that they can, and should, be better—then the real problem is that tech companies haven’t gone far enough. As you can see, in its ongoing efforts to wrangle cable news invites, TWS is adopting the exact same Orwellian language we hear from the book burners in the establishment media and from Social Justice Warriors–buzzwords like “healthy” and “optimal” and “be better.” This is … [Read more...] about Nolte: Weekly Standard Cheers Big Tech Blacklisting Infowars; Calls for More