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[Fuel] Smoldering cigarette likely sparked fatal Roxborough blaze | Fuel: Authorities believe a fire that swept through a Roxborough home in August and killed three young people probably started with a smoldering cigarette left on a wooden deck, which spread to high-octane fuel stored in the garage, family and friends of the victims said Tuesday.

[Untitled] First Car By Carl Benz at Buying Your First Car: A budget in mind will enable you to buy a car economically, when you have fixed the limits of expenditure. This enables you to focus and overcome a hard bargain since you are aware that your budget on hand cannot accommodate this increased expenditure so you won’t succumb as easily to high pressure sales tactics.

[Untitled] Oil refiner CEO advocates for higher fuel taxes - AutoblogGreen: They have cars that get better gas mileage than the US, they have developed alternate transportation (rail and bus) and they have built alternate electric supplies (nuclear, tide and wind). In the US, cheap fuel has meant: few if any alternate transportation systems and the death of existing rail and bus, few alternative fuels, bad gas mileage, and a dearth of changes or new technologies.

[FOX16 Business News] Mercedes fined for violating fuel efficiency rules - FOX16.com: (Mark Renders, Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government says Mercedes-Benz paid a $28.9 million fine in December for violating federal fuel efficiency requirements.

[State News] Entrepreneurial Exchange Announces 2009 Event - NBC Action News ...: Goody's liquidates remaining U.S. stores · Judge to ponder whether Bernard Madoff dangerous · Apple updates Mac software in trade show finale · Mercedes fined for violating fuel efficiency rules · Judge tosses suit challenging .

[WTOL - Michigan Headlines] WTOL.com, Toledo's News Leader, News 11 | Mercedes fined for ...: WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government says Mercedes-Benz paid a $28.9 million fine in December for violating federal fuel efficiency requirements.

[Untitled] The strangest alternative fuel yet: This who legal argument is just more insanity from California lawmakers. If someone donates their body fat to become fuel, and someone else wants to use it, despite the fact that it is almost beyond disgusting to consider, it probably doesn’t affect me, unless the byproducts of burning human body fat are dangerous, in which case I’m sure someone can invent a “cataclysmic perverter”

[The Truth About Cars] Federal Court Upholds Use of Red Light Cameras for Profit | The ...: someone steals your car and commits a crime with it) States conducting automotive seizure rely on a doctrine found in a 1931 Supreme Court ruling stating “It is the property which is preceded against, and, by resort to a legal fiction, held guilty and condemned as though it were conscious instead of inanimate and insentient.” - thus, your car committed the offense, and is responsible for the ticket, even if you weren’t the driver…

[Untitled] Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews: Essay: In This Together ...: It should be no surprise to someone as worldly as Jack Lessenberry to know that our method of attempting fuel economy in the U.S. (with CAFE standards imposed on automakers) is a method that no other country in the world thinks is valid. In most other major industrialized countries where governments have sought to lower oil consumption, they have simply raised taxes on the commodity in question.

[Untitled] Hemmings Auto Blogs » Blog Archive » GM and Detroit: Bail or let fail?: The bitter irony is, if the big 3 had not spent so much time and money fighting updated CAFE standards, and had invested that money in improving fleet fuel economy, they’d be in a much better position right now. They might still be having credit trouble like everyone else, but they would more likely have been moving product during the gas price run-up, if it would have even happened with a more fuel efficient fleet on the road.

[Untitled] Ford claims to be back in black by 2011, release EV sedan same ...: * Next month at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Ford will discuss in detail the company's accelerated vehicle electrification plan, which includes bringing to market by 2012 a family of hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles. The work will include partnering with battery and powertrain systems suppliers to deliver a full battery electric vehicle (BEV) in a van-type vehicle for commercial fleet use in 2010 and a BEV sedan in 2011.

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