In a stunning blow to the environment, President Bush announced today that he is relaxing environmental standards on gasoline in order to curb fuel prices for the summer. The EPA's hard-fought battle to promote reformulated gasoline is taking the hardest hit from President Bush's latest mandate: the February victory requiring refineries to add ethanol to gasoline so that it'll burn cleaner is apparently being lifted.

Want to join a luxury auto club? According to sib site Luxist, for those near Evansville, Indiana, you now have an option. Located at the Buxston Motorsports plaza, members of the LuxShare Auto Club shell out $7,250 to $9,000 per year in order to gain access to high-end vehicles from manufacturers like Porsche and Rolls-Royce. 

Before moving off Volkswagen of America's Auburn Hills campus entirely, Audi will first take a smaller step. Without doing something as drastic as moving to the East Coast, Audi will physically create its own environment by moving about 200 employees into two buildings of their own on VW's campus. Audi bosses say that they're still working on figuring out where to transplant to -- many cities out east are good candidates for Audi, making an East

The Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler announced today it will increase the number of models offered that can burn ethanol fuels. The Chrysler group plans to make one-fourth of all vehicles ethanol-friendly by 2008, and Tom LaSorda will announce flex-fuel engines for the Jeep Commander and Grand Cherokee by 2007. The move follows letters sent by two U.S. senators to the six largest automakers, encouraging them to build more flex-fuel vehicles. A senate bill is being proposed that would actually m

According to the Washington Post, debt collectors are lobbying the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to again use automated dialers to contact mobile phones of debtors. Previously, collectors could use such technology but were banned back in 2003 as part of the FCC’s crackdown on telemarketers. Debt collectors argue they should not be under the same

As Bill Ford continues to promote innovation as the key to recovery for "America's car company," here's an interesting look at another automaker automaker touting its leading edge engineering.

With consumer concern about high gas prices rising, and the President's approval rating still falling, the AP reported today that George Bush is launching a probe into gas gouging and a four-part plan to curb short- and long-term gas prices. Is Bush's plan anything new? Not exactly. Most of the steps he's taking now are the same ones he's been taking since Hurricane Katrina, which is the last time gas prices rose over $3.00 per gallon. But this time he says he's having the US attorney general se

Product placement is a time-honored trend. We're quite sure that Ford is pining for a Bullitt remake, for example, but the war seems to be heating up.

The automobiles that politicians in the United Kingdom are driving (or not driving, in the case of the fellow who is going to some campaign stops on the Underground) are making headlines as election season heats up and opponents try to out-green the way they get around.