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2017 Kia Niro preview

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The 2017 Kia Niro is the first dedicated hybrid model from the Korean carmaker. Unlike the Toyota Prius or the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq from its sister company, the Niro takes the form of a crossover utility vehicle, rather than a hatchback.

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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

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I think the economists have said it’s sort of a wash because it mainly just took future purchases and accelerated them. Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017. Overall, the average miles-per-gallon of the traded-in vehicles was 15.8, and of the new vehicles, 24.9.

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No Eclipse Plans? Try These Last-Minute Strategies.

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Otherwise, you may spend hours caught in traffic, as many discovered after the 2017 eclipse. Data from the 2017 total eclipse, which also took place on a Monday, showed about 41 percent less traffic leaving destinations on Tuesday, compared with Monday, Ms. Dreaming up a future getaway or just armchair traveling?

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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The 11 cities analyzed in the study are Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Seattle. Ultimately each metropolitan area, Hsu suggests, may have to find its own path toward a clean energy future. Changing circumstances could alter the model’s projections—e.g.,

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Study finds heavy-petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions; human emissions outpacing natural sources by factor of 1.7

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Increasing interest in petroleum derived from unconventional deposits is likely to lead to greater emissions of V to the atmosphere in the near future. For example, one of North America’s largest coke refineries is on the southeast side of Chicago. —William Schlesinger. Schlesinger, Emily M. 1715500114.

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The Fed Is Driving Down Oil Prices

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The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index jumped to 1,187 in early trading on Friday, the highest level since July 2017. dollar to go up, which is putting downward pressure on prices,” Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago, told Reuters. The greenback has strengthened about 6 percent in the past two months. “(ECB

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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who said to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: “I think you of all people can appreciate using a person’s past behavior in decisions about future behavior. To see how this works, let’s start with Filecoin , which raised $257 million in 2017 in its ICO. Lacking other options, they may pay exorbitant interest rates on payday loans.