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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

The Truth About Cars

It was the Chevrolet Sprint ER , and I've found a nicely intact example in a car graveyard just east of Sacramento. Even though memories of the gas lines and fuel rationing of 1979 were still vivid by 1987, oil prices crashed hard during the middle 1980s, hitting bottom in 1986.

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Nissan’s Big Gamble

Revenge of the Electric Car

. “A lot of Americans really want to stop using imported oil,&# he says. “We’re excited about being able to market a car that will never use a drop of gasoline.&#. Pricing isn’t set. Oil vs. electrons. But Ghosn thinks rising oil prices will tilt the economics in favor of electrons.

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