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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. The missing piece we dream President Obama will follow up with is an emergency-response roadmap to a world where increasingly scarce and costly oil is used only when needed.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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The scheme, which would be enforced by setting a ceiling for the amount of CO2 a car emits, will become operational in 2011. Barack Obama releases Bush administration torture memos 5. What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon.

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US VP Biden outlines 3-part plan to have 1M advanced technology vehicles on US roads by 2015

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In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama highlighted his goal of making the United States the first country in the world to put one million advanced technology vehicles on the road by 2015. Following a tour of the Ener1, Inc.

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