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Karl Rove ‘offended’ by Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.

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Automakers in a race for buyers of mid-size family cars

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jerry Hirsch - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Ford, GM, Honda and Nissan are all rolling out revamped models this year, with added features and better gas mileage.

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U.S. Car Manufacturers Have Record December

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Susanna Kim - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Chrysler announced its best monthly retail sales in four year years, leading the pack of U.S. car makers who had capped a robust 2011 with strong December sales.

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Are America’s subways and roads overpriced?

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Brad Plumer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Why do transportation projects cost so much in the United States?

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Chevy Volt dealers inflate prices, take tax credits

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Tiffany Hsu - Jun. 03 (News Report) - Several dealerships, including at least one in California, have marked up new Volts more than $20,000. Others are selling the cars as used, claiming a $7,500 tax credit for themselves.Car sales may be in a slump, but the hybrid-electric Chevrolet Volts are hot, and that's leading to shortages — and in some cases extreme dealer markups.

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Obama floats plan to tax cars by the mile

Thu, 05 May 2011 08:46:24 -0700

The Hill - By Pete Kasperowicz - May. 05 (News) - Right now about 50%, on average, of the price of a gallon of gas is taxes. I guess comrade Obama needs more taxes from those of us he promised NOT to raise taxes on. Just think of what would happen if he wanted to force us to fall into lock step with his environmental wacko agenda. Once again he wants to steal from his subjects so he can do what he wants to better HIS life.

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Obama Sets Goal of One-Third Cut in Oil Imports

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Mar. 30 (News) - With gasoline prices rising, oil supplies from the Middle East pinched by political upheaval and growing calls in Congress for expanded domestic oil and gas production, President Obama on Wednesday will set a goal of a one-third reduction in oil imports over the next decade, aides said Tuesday.

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EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Bruno Waterfield - Mar. 29 (News) - Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.

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G.M. Reports an Annual Profit, Its First Since 2004

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nick Bunkley - Feb. 24 (News) - General Motors, which nearly collapsed from the weight of its debts two years ago before reorganizing in a government-sponsored bankruptcy, said Thursday that it earned $4.7 billion in 2010, the most in more than a decade.

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GM, Chrysler Salaried Workers' Bonuses Said to Reach as Much as 50% of Pay

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Keith Naughton, David Welch, Tim Higgins - Feb. 11 (News Report) - General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC, which each received government-funded bailouts, may award some managers bonuses of as much as 50 percent of their salary, said four people familiar with the plans. GM plans to pay bonuses to most managers equal to 15 percent to 20 percent of their annual salary and as high as 50 percent to less than 1 percent of its 26,000 U.S. salaried employees.

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Baltimore ranks near top in congestion

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Michael Dresser - Jan. 20 (News) - The Baltimore metropolitan area — though only No. 17 in population — ranks fifth in the nation in the average number of hours automobile commuters are delayed during peak periods, according to a national traffic study to be released today.

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At auto show, Chrysler comes out crowing over rebound

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Whoriskey - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A new portfolio of Chrysler cars and trucks was rolled out here Monday with music by Eminem reverberating and images of ebullient executives broadcast onto mega-screens flanking the stage, a remarkable display for a company that just a year ago had been nearly left for dead.

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All-electric claims for Chevy Volt fire up GM's critics

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Michael Hiltzik - Oct. 28 (News Report) - To understand the furor that erupted recently when General Motors rolled out its new electric car, the Chevy Volt, for its public debut, it pays to keep the following fact in mind: For electric car enthusiasts, GM is a company with blood on its hands. The crime was the murder of the EV1, the pioneering all-electric car GM produced from 1996 to 1999 and supported indifferently until it shut down the program for good in 2005.

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Toyota recalling 1.53 million cars globally

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Malcolm Foster - Oct. 21 (News) - Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems, the latest in a string of quality problems for the world's No. 1 automaker.

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A Bit More Ethanol in the Gas Tank

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Oct. 14 (News) - The ruling, which was requested by ethanol producers, was widely expected but is the subject of heated debate over whether E15 is safe for cars and other gasoline-powered devices. Fuel sold today typically contains as much as 10 percent ethanol, but automakers and other critics say that a higher blend of ethanol could corrode engines.

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China Traffic Jam Could Last Into September

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Shai Oster - Aug. 24 (News Report) - A 62-mile traffic jam near the Chinese capital that officials say could last until mid-September has become a symbol of the dark side of China's love affair with the automobile. Officials say traffic has been snarled along the outskirts of Beijing and is stretching toward the border of Inner Mongolia ever since roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway started Aug. 13. The following week, parts of a major road circling Beijing were closed, further tightening overburdened roadways. As the jam on the highway, also known as National Highway 110, passed the 10-day mark Tuesday, local authorities dispatched hundreds of police to keep order and to reroute cars and trucks carrying essential supplies, such as food or flammables, around the main bottleneck. There, vehicles were inching along little more than a third of a mile a day. Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office, said in a telephone interview he didn't expect the situation to return to normal until around Sept. 17 when road construction is scheduled to be finished and traffic lanes will open up.

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Detroit Goes From Gloom to Economic Bright Spot

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bill Vlasic - Aug. 14 (Special Report) - After a dismal period of huge losses and deep cuts that culminated in the Obama administration’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, the gloom over the American auto industry is starting to lift.

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Would a Push to Curb Carbon Really Reduce U.S. Dependence on Oil?

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Anne C. Mulkern - Jun. 22 (News Analysis) - Legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions largely targets electric utilities. Although it would affect oil refiners, economists said, proposed policies would trigger only minor fuel price increases, too small to alter how much people drive, whether they buy airline tickets or what kind of vehicles they purchase.

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Punishing BP Is Harder Than Boycotting Stations

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ron Lieber - Jun. 11 (News Report) - BP owns only a handful of the 11,000 stations that bear its brand and is trying to sell the few still on its books. So those who wish to inflict the maximum amount of pain on the company are instead putting much of the hurt on the family businesses that actually own the stations.

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Toyota to invest $50M in Tesla electric car plant

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Daisy Nguyen - May. 21 (News Report) - The heads of Tesla Motors Inc. and Toyota Motors Corp. surprised the auto world Thursday by announcing a partnership to develop and build electric cars at a recently shuttered auto plant in the San Francisco Bay area.

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A Fuel-Saving Car Engine in the Blink of an IRIS

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

National Geographic - By Henry J. Reske - May. 12 (News Report) - Amid an auto industry upheaval, two Colorado brothers promote a radical new design to replace the notoriously inefficient internal combustion engine.

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AP-GfK Poll: Americans say US cars top Asian autos- Yahoo! Autos Article Page

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Hydrogen Still In The Eco-Car Race

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 18 (News Report) - Hydrogen, one of Earth's most abundant elements, once was seen as green energy's answer to the petroleum-driven car: easy to produce, available everywhere and nonpolluting when burned.

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What's really behind the Toyota debacle

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Alex Taylor III - Apr. 14 (News Report) - At 77, Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of Toyota, is still causing trouble for the automaker. He is being painted, most recently in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, as both the architect of a global expansion that proved ruinous and an enemy of the Toyoda family. Toyota is basically organized the same way it was half-a-century ago when it first began selling cars in the U.S. None of its operations are functionally integrated -- and all report back to Japan. It is a caricature of a chimneyed company with vertical structures and no coordination

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Unbearable lightness?

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Apr. 10 (News) - It therefore comes as no surprise that last week’s pronouncement by the White House—that cars and trucks sold in America from the 2016 model year onwards will have to achieve a fleet-wide average of 35.5mpg (6.6 litres/100km)—should have awoken fears about vehicles becoming smaller and less safe in order to meet the latest fuel-sipping standards.

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