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US Shale Is Immune To An Oil Price Crash In 2017

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The growth from the average level in the fourth quarter of 2016 to May 2017 is around 340,000 bpd, Rystad said. At WTI price of US$50 per barrel, Lower 48 output is seen to be growing by an additional 390,000 bpd between May 2017 and December 2017, the consultancy noted. Link to original article.

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Choosing not to drive: A transient or a permanent phenomenon?

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In a 2011 article , Brandon Schoettle and I showed that the proportion of young Americans aged 16 to 39 years with a driver’s license decreased substantially from 1983 to 2008. (In This article reports on two follow-up analyses. The first analysis is an update of the licensing trends through 2017. by Michael Sivak. minus 81.7

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Distance driven in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2004?

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This article is the latest publication in a series examining recent changes in various aspects of motorization in the United States. The period covered is 1984 through 2017. The period covered is 1984 through 2017. by 2017 (to 8,834 miles). by 2017 (to 22,796 miles). by Michael Sivak. population).

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Number of vehicles in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2006?

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In a recent article , I examined changes in distance driven in the United States during the period from 1984 through 2017. While this rate has been on a rebound since 2013, the 2017 rate is still down from 2004 by 5.2%. by 2017 (to 0.769 vehicles). by Michael Sivak. Distance driven per person reached a maximum in 2004.

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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. The author of 52 articles with an h-index of 25, and four books/book chapters, Dr. Bai has seven patents pending and one granted patent. He is the author of 56 articles with an h-index of 42 and holds three patents. Dr. Li became a member of ECS in January 2022.

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2017 VW e-Golf first drive, Model S swap, Karma on TV, rolling coal banned: Today's Car News

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Today, one Tesla will be replaced with another, we've driven the longer-range 2017 Volkswagen e-Golf, the Karma Revero is on TV, and we bust another alt-fuel myth. Our writer David Noland has covered his ownership of a Tesla Model S (and many other topics too) in great detail, and his articles are among our.

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How Toyota sneakily spreads anti-EV propaganda in Japan

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(The following article was sent to us by a concerned Japanese resident who wishes to remain anonymous.). Back in 2010, Toyota and Tesla jointly worked on a second RAV4 EV project and Toyota had invested $50 million in Tesla, which it sold in 2017 (and which would now be worth $20 billion had they not sold it). Probably not.

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