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Cyclists Aren't 'Special,' and They Shouldn't Play by Their Own Rules - Sarah Goodyear - The Atlantic Cities

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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Cheap Bus Fare Lures Riders Despite Company's Troubles

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Marc Santora - Feb. 27 (News Report) - Safety issues have long been raised about the companies based in Chinatown that offer inexpensive bus travel in the Northeast.

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SpaceX: Space Station crew likes what it sees in new transport vehicle

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Pete Spotts - May. 27 (News Report) - The crew of the International Space Station got its first look at the inside of its newest visitor – SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship – Saturday morning. For the next several years it'll be carrying cargo and astronauts to the space station.

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America's Best Bike City: Portland, OR

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Bicycling - By Bill Donahue - May. 26 (Opinion) - Sit down, please, and take a deep belly breath now, for the truth is harsh: When a bicyclist pedals down toward the Willamette River, which divides Portland, Oregon, the waters do not part. The automobile traffic does not cease. Cars honk, and in a city obsessed with green transit, there are train rails—a gleaming cyclist’s nightmare—crisscrossing everywhere. And it rains. The sky is a brooding gray between October and May, and in winter the rain, falling as a fine, gentle mist, can be so cold that your gloves almost freeze on your handlebar. And as you near the river, you may find one of Portland’s five drawbridges raised high so a giant steel China-bound cargo ship can come churning through.

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Around the World on Solar Power

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By BETTINA WASSENER - May. 03 (News Report) - Turanor PlanetSolar is expected to dock on Friday in Monaco, ending its 19-month journey.

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Who to blame for the price at the pump? Tough to say

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Molly Moorhead - Apr. 29 (Fact Check) - The price of gas is determined by a litany of complex and shifting factors (Brent derivatives, anyone?), few of which you’ll hear mentioned in :30-second political ads. But politicians are interested less in cause, more in effect. The effect in this case: your anger.

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Obama urges Congress to create transportation jobs

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Richard Wolf - Mar. 24 (News Report) - President Obama used his weekly radio address Saturday to take on a familiar foe -- House Republicans -- over a familiar topic, creating jobs and rebuilding America's transportation system. The president lauded the Democratic-controlled Senate for passin

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Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Ted Turner - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - The purpose of Keystone XL is to bring tar sands crude oil through the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good reason. The existing and potential environmental impacts along the 2,000-mile pipeline route are profound.

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LZ: Michigan to Romney: Go away

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By LZ Garnderson - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - That's why the characterization of Rick Santorum polling well in Romney's backyard is a bit misguided. The truth is, many of us disowned that two-faced liar years ago. We remember how, back in 2008, Romney came home promising to do all he could to save the auto industry. And we believed him and voted for him and he won the primary here. Then, after he dropped out of the race, he wrote a New York Times op-ed that carried the headline "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." The opening sentence: "If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."

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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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Ford may post best year since 1998

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Louisville Courier-Journal - By Bloomberg News - Jan. 26 (News Report) - Ford Motor Co., boosted by a one-time tax gain, may report its most profitable year since 1998, while weakness in Europe and Asia cut fourth-quarter earnings.

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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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Jesse James: Return of the outlaw biker

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Susan Carpenter - Dec. 05 (Entertainment) - Jesse James had it all. The Hollywood A-list wife. A top-ranked cable-TV show. He'd built his Long Beach shop, West Coast Choppers, into an empire, wrenching custom $80,000-plus motorcycles for a celebrity clientele — an endeavor he spun off into a mass-market clothing line for Wal-Mart, a glossy gearhead magazine and an eco-friendly burger joint he hoped to franchise.

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Fact checking a claim on tax breaks

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Abby Phillip - Jul. 01 (Research) - President Obama used oil barons and corporate jet owners to anchor his opposition to Republicans' demands on taxes in his press conference on Wednesday. His indictment against corporate jet owners in particular was repeated so often, six times, that it certainly rankled Republicans who saw it as a clear case of class warfare.

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Streets With Bike Lanes are a Kind of Economic Stimulus

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Treehugger - By Michael Graham Richard - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - A new report by the University of Massachusetts' Political Economy Research Institute confirms that bike lanes are not just good for our health and for the environment, but they are also very good for the health of the economy. Some of the ways it brings benefits are: Tourism, more traffic to local businesses, increased property values, healthier citizens, etc.

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Obama administration taps Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Dan Berman - Jun. 23 (News Report) - The Obama administration will release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to offset oil supply disruptions in the Middle East, the Energy Department announced Thursday morning.

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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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Iceland volcano pumps a different ash

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Jonathan Amos, Richard Black - May. 23 (News Report) - The eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland is huge, but it is not expected to cause the kind of disruption we saw last year when Eyjafjallajokull blew its top.

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Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By by Michael Grabell - May. 16 (News Report) - "There's no real data on these machines, and in fact, the best guess of the dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks," said John Sedat, a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the primary author of the letter.

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Driving Is Why You're Fat

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Ariel Schwartz - May. 15 (Comment) - Obesity is a complicated disease. It can be caused by your mom's pregnancy diet, genetics, your KFC Double Down habit, or some combination of all three. But why has the problem reached such epidemic proportions in the U.S.? Researchers at the University of Illinois think our car culture may be to blame. After analyzing national statistics from between 1985 and 2007, the researchers found that vehicle use (measured in annual vehicle miles traveled) correlated approximately 99% with annual obesity rates. The more we sit around doing nothing in our cars, the fatter we get. Of course, cars and roads aren't going anywhere, but we could stand to drive just a little bit less. If every licensed driver in the country cut down on travel by just one mile each day, in six years the obesity rate would drop 2.16%--cutting down on the number of obese adults by almost 5 million people, according to PhysOrg.

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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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IMF warns of oil scarcity and a 60% oil price increase within a year

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Crude Oil Peak - Apr. 21 (News Analysis) - In a benchmark scenario of its latest World Economic Outlook (April 2011) the International Monetary Fund (IMF) analyses what it calls oil scarcity (after “energy security” another code word for peak oil?) and warns of a 60% increase in oil prices within a year and almost 90% within 5 years due to a reduced growth in global oil supplies (assumed to be + 0.8% pa, down from a long term 1.8%) and low oil price elasticities of oil demand between 0.02 (short-term) and 0.08 (long term). Even in the best case scenario in which oil price elasticities increase almost 5 fold (greater substitution away from oil), oil prices are simulated to go up by 60% in 5 years.

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Digital permits to replace hangtags

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Ryan Langrehr - Apr. 21 (News) - When students purchase parking permits for the fall semester, they won’t be getting them in the mail, or picking them up from the ticket office. Towson University is abandoning the traditional hangtag parking permits to implement an entirely digital system called the Virtual Permit system. Virtual Permits will work off of License Plate Recognition (LPR) [...]

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