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The Next Oil Price Spike May Cripple The Industry

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In fact, at a little over $50 per barrel, oil is trading slightly higher than its historic, inflation adjusted average of $47 per barrel , which in and off itself calls into the question the “spike” view: If the period 2001 – 2014 was a clear historic abnormality, why should one expect the price to return those levels? 100 perhaps?),

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A mini industry spawns under the hood of a booming car market – ET Auto

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Back in 2001, Maruti Suzuki was one of the first players in this segment with its True Value channel, enabling trust and breaking stereotypes attached to the purchase of ‘second-hand’ vehicles. The growth was also fuelled by digitisation of used-car business which has made the process a lot easier, accessible and trustable.

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EIA Annual Energy Outlook explores implications of behavior and demographics on light-duty vehicle energy demand

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Included in AEO2014 is a set of eight “Issues in Focus” articles, exploring topics of special significance, including changes in assumptions and recent developments in technologies for energy production and consumption. The increasing fuel efficiency of LDVs can influence personal travel by lowering the marginal cost of driving per mile.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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On the other hand, depleting Saudi government reserves to finance the deficits will put the Saudi sovereign credit rating at risk, which would raise the cost of borrowing as well as pressure the Saudi currency (the consequences of which are discussed below). IMF WEO Data: Lagging Per Capita Income as far as the Eyes can See.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The Council of European Ministers adopted the limit as policy on behalf of the European Union in 1996, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) subsequently employed the limit as context in its Third Assessment Report (TAR), published in 2001. [ 1 ] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Third Assessment Report , 2001. [

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human hand—sometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing. As recounted in the 2001 essay collection.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp., It appeared in the February 1994 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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