Car reviewers rave about GM’s PHEV while Rush fumes.

Rush Limbaugh is so dedicated to destroying Obama at any cost that he is doing everything he can to undermine the prospects for GM’s revival (see Granholm: Limbaugh’s attacks on American-made electric vehicles are ‘un-American’).  While General Motors is gaining business and sharply reducing the government ownership share, the Politico reported Limbaugh has been on the warpath against “Obama motors“:

Limbaugh told listeners that his radio program last year canceled an advertising campaign with General Motors because he “knew this was coming.”

Good for you, Rush.  Hey, why not just discourage companies from hiring people, since that would only help Obama in the end.

Now GM’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) the Chevy Volt has opened to rave reviews by car magazines (see below), and was named 2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year, which raved:

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World Bank Giving More to Clean Energy, but Also to Fossil Fuels

The World Bank has been talking more and more about focusing its support on clean energy projects, and apparently it has been putting much more into clean energy lately. “The World Bank’s lending for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects increased by 300 percent between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2010, to a record $3.4 billion,” Timothy Hurst of ecopolitology reports.

However, while that alone might look really good, it’s also important to note that lending for fossil fuels increased 430 percent in the same time period. Lending for coal plants reached a record $4.4 billion and lending for fossil-fuel projects, in total, reached a record $6.3 billion.

This is despite the World Bank admitting a couple years ago that climate change is one of the biggest threats to the development of poor countries.

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Cool video of what 3500°C does:
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Click here to help the young Climate Hawks at Campus Progress.

Guest blogger David Halperin, the Director of Campus Progress, has the story:

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