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Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965

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Gasoline consumption per capita was calculated using the population estimates in the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Consumption per capita. Consumption per capita dropped from 414 gallons in 2019 to 356 gallons in 2020, again a drop of 14%.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. The Vue's platform outlived Saturn and still lives today, though.

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EPA researchers suggest US electricity consumers should be willing to pay 2-4x for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to health impacts

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2006) and Pope et al. 2002), respectively. find that the economic value of improved human health associated with avoiding emissions from fossil fuel electricity in the United States ranges from a low of $0.005–$0.013/kWh in California to a high of $0.41–$1.01/kWh The high (?) values are given by Laden et al.

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Study Finds that US Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Are Almost 2.5x Those for Renewables

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US subsidies for fuels and renewable energy, 2002-2008. The study, “Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008”, found that fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-year period, while subsidies for renewable fuels totaled $29 billion. Nuclear was not included in the analysis.

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ABAT and Wuxi Angell Autocycle Introduce Three Hybrid Motorcycles

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Wuxi Angell, founded in 2002, develops and manufactures various types of electric vehicles, including electric bikes, agricultural transport vehicle and electric sports utility vehicles. With annual production of approximately 300,000 vehicles, Wuxi Angell’s products are exported to 47 countries in Europe, United States and Asia.

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Canada publishes proposed regulations for criteria pollutants from locomotives

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The emission standards set out in these proposed regulations will also align with those of the United States. In October 2006, the Government of Canada issued a Notice of intent to develop and implement regulations and other measures to reduce air emissions to regulate air emissions, including those from the rail sector.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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In 2006 he became a distinguished lecturer and spoke about his work in Asia, Europe, and the United States. After retiring from IBM in 2002, Williams volunteered at the Computer History Museum , in Mountain View, Calif. In 2006 he was promoted to head of the department.

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