Forget the Marine Corps, it's Climate Corps to the rescue

With the world in crisis, forget the Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Americore or Job Corps. The Oregon legislature is about to pass a bill creating CLIMATE CORPS. Even though the Oregon general fund is $2 billion short, they are requiring the University of Oregon to create Climate Corps.

This bill has passed the Senate and it moving through the House. Here's the text:

GM pins hopes for recharge on Volt - Politico.com Print View

According to the hype, the Chevrolet Volt, GM’s first mass-market electric car, is going to save General Motors, cash-strapped consumers and the environment.
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But before the Volt can take off, it must get over a big bump in the road: profitability. The high cost of the new technology means that the car will most likely lose money for at least the first several years of production. And as GM sheds workers, factories and dealerships, the bankruptcy court could question the wisdom of manufacturing the expensive new vehicle, Berman said.

“If they say, ‘Green light’ on the Volt, then they’re basically saying, ‘Damn the economics, there’s too many bigger policy issues to be solved and this is too symbolically important to pull the plug on,’” he said.

Nov '08: Chevy Volt fail? | AzSustainability.com

A recent episode of Frontline covering the topic of global climate change had a segment with the Chevy Volt. While Chevy tried to show off the Volt driving up a not so steep looking hill it turned out the car couldn’t make it and stalled out. Hopefully this was just a fluke and not a sign that things aren’t going well with this promising new technology. Check out the video below and see the Volt doing a whole lot of fail.