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2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Review – Cheap(ish) Speed

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The EcoBoost version of the Mustang has offered over 300 horsepower since 2015. Fuel economy for the EcoBoost is 22 mpg city/33 mpg highway/26 mpg combined, and 21/29/24 with the Performance Pack. It used to be about style for the base cars and cheap speed for the more-powerful ponies. It’s not perfect.

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Aluminum-Body 2015 Ford F-150 Gets 5-Star NHTSA Rating For Crash Safety

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Cutting weight can be one of the most effective tactics to increase fuel economy, but it doesn''t necessarily come cheap. The 2015 Ford F-150 pickup, with its aluminum body and bed mounted on a conventional steel frame, represents a huge gamble by Ford on its highest-volume vehicle line.

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Cheap Oil Will Last A Decade, Says Huge Oil Trader

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The low oil prices that boosted new-car sales and caused average fuel-economy gains to sputter last year may be here to stay, for a while at least. With fuel prices low throughout 2015, Americans bought more new cars, but many of them were less-efficient SUVs and crossovers.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10.

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Mitsubishi Mirage to Be Discontinued by 2025

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Despite fuel prices and an economy that seems poised to bolster the sale of value-focused cars, the United States is losing another one. It’s one of the brand’s biggest markets and it’s also a source of relatively cheap labor — ensuring the Mirage can be a competitively priced global product. The above hasn’t helped sales. Annual U.S.

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Baker Institute expert suggests assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed

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Finally, in many MENA countries, government policies that made available low-priced fuel and electricity contributed to an ‘entitlement mentality’ among citizens toward cheap energy. In turn, these attitudes have encouraged energy-intense habits, influencing the design of the built environment and guiding patterns of human settlement.

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Opinion: How Much Longer Can OPEC Hold Out?

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The EIA even predicts that OPEC’s net oil exports (excluding Iran) could fall to as low as $380 billion in 2015. Cheap oil has created a huge financial crisis for Venezuela as its economy is heavily dependent on oil exports and oil revenues constitute about 95% of its total foreign exchange earnings.