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Nissan Has a Turnaround Plan That Involves Cheaper EVs and Other Electrified Models

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Its former CEO had to flee Japan and is currently hiding in Lebanon, and several high-value employees left shortly after. Additionally, the company will refresh 60 percent of its gas vehicle catalog at the same time. The last decade hasn’t been the kindest to Nissan.

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The War in Ukraine Disrupts Trade in Both Food and Fuel

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Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa). share in 2020, by contrast, was about 9 percent.

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Syrian oil ministry announces oil shale tender

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A more vigorous investigation on oil shale began in 1980, but was stopped in 1985 due to the decrease in oil prices. Syria is the only significant crude oil producing country in the Eastern Mediterranean region (including Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza), according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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