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Used Car of the Day: 1989 Chevrolet Blazer

The Truth About Cars

The grille and front lights are from a 2006 Silverado. It's for sale in California for $9,800 and has a tick over 95K miles on the odometer. There's a skid plate, fog lights, and a custom spare-tire mount. There's power steering, windows, and door locks.

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California Legislature Considering Bill Requiring Smog Testing for Motorcycles

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A bill under consideration in the California state legislature would require California’s Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) to include Class III (280 cc or greater) model-year 2000 and newer motorcycles in the state’s smog check program beginning 1 January 2012. Background. g/km HC+NO x. g/km HC+NO x —i.e.,

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Aemetis wins $6M biodiesel supply contract with India Government oil companies

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In 2016, the India government approved the use of up to 100% biodiesel to blend or replace diesel fuel, but biodiesel producers are currently limited to sales directly to bulk customers including trucking and bus companies and to Oil Marketing Companies.

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California Air Resources Board posts notice for California’s first cap-and-trade auction

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The California Air Resources Board on Friday issued the 60-day public notice for California’s first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas allowance auction on 14 November 2012. The allowances sold at the auction are for compliance with the state’s greenhouse gas reduction effort under the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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Last week, Volkswagen provided a close-up look at one of the projects in which it is investing: the Garcia River Conservation-Based Forest Management Project, located in Mendocino County, California. TCF acquired the 23,780-acre tract in 2004 for $18 million ($10 million California Coastal Conservancy, $3.5 hack and squirt).

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. 2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. In California, Governor Schwarzenegger seems dead-set on developing the hydrogen highway. Q: What about hydrogen?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program.

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