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Did The U.S. Spend Two Decades & Trillions Of Dollars In Afghanistan & Iraq Because Of Oil Addiction?

CleanTechnica EVs

I recall 9/11 vividly, as many Americans do. I was going into a morning sociology class in college. Everyone was glued to the TV — New York City’s Twin Towers had been destroyed from terrorists flying planes into them, another was soon flown into the Pentagon. As I’ve learned since then, almost everyone was shocked […].

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Afghanistan to power electric cars?

Green Cars News

Afghanistan could become the ‘Saudi Arabia of lithium’ an internal memo from the US Pentagon hints after new research revealed that the country has vast reserves of the valuable mineral. Tags: Electric cars Afghanistan lithium U.S

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Even the Taliban is in the Supercar Business These Days

The Truth About Cars

Thirty engineers at the Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute in Kabul have come up with the Mada 9. There's a political aspect behind this car -- apparently, Taliban Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani said the car is a way of proving that the Taliban can provide both religion and modern science to the country's people.

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Why Buy Electric Cars? Iraq Vet Says: For National Security

Green Car Reports

Most Nissan Leaf owners are passionate about their electric cars, especially the earliest ones who've already taken delivery. But not all of them have served three tours of military duty, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Transmission Losses: More Oil Supply Trucks Bombed in Pakistan

Plugs and Cars

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Dozens of tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for NATO troops were torched near Quetta in western Pakistan on Wednesday, the third major attack on supplies since Pakistan closed one border crossing to Afghanistan a week ago and the first at the only checkpoint that remained open. Source: NY Times

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"Transmission" Losses: Billion Dollar Fuel Theft

Plugs and Cars

military still hasn't found a way to staunch the flow of what is likely hundreds of millions -- if not billions -- of dollars in lost fuel in Afghanistan, some of which is sold on the black market and winds up in Taliban hands, a TPM investigation has found. After nearly a decade of mismanagement, theft and fraud, the U.S.

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

That same year we started deploying the first of thousands of robots in Afghanistan and then Iraq to be used to help troops disable improvised explosive devices. AI systems power the speech and language understanding of our smart speakers and the entertainment and navigation systems in our cars.