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And GM follows suit; 10,000 cut

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GM cuts 10,000 salaried workers worldwide, including 3,400 of its 29,500 salaried jobs in the United States.

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What's Oil Got to Do With It?

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From Saturday's New York Times story " Cheney, on Carrier, Sends Warning to Iran " Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 150 miles off Iran’s coast as the backdrop yesterday to warn that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting oil routes.

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Upstream Costs of Gasoline

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The United States uses 360 million gallons of gasoline each day. One tanker-truck load, a mere 8600 gallons of gasoline, exploded on a San Francisco Bay Area Freeway early Sunday morning, and the consequences will be felt for months.

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Tortillas and Ethanol

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As reported in Forbes, "The government eliminated its decades-old subsidy for tortillas in 1999 just as cheap corn imports were rising from the United States under NAFTA." They have had a tough time dealing with the influx of cheap American corn since NAFTA. Then America found yet another use for corn, and the price has been bid up.

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Help Plug In America renew the EV infrastructure tax credit

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These EV tax credits of 50% up to $2,000 for individuals, and 50% up to $50,000 for businesses have led to the beginning of early deployment of EV charging infrastructure all across the United States. But the infrastructure tax credit is set to expire on 12/31/2010 unless we act now !

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Prius drops to 48mpg; How will 2008 Prius get 80mpg? Plug-in hybrid?

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Toyota's Prius, the best-known and best-selling gas-electric car in the United States, drops from a 60 mpg rating under the current system to 48 miles per gallon in the city under the 2008 testing procedure -- a 20 percent decline Its highway mileage rating falls about 12 percent, to 45 mpg.

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Obama on cars

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And I think that we can make those cars here in the United States. Now we're seeing a huge growth in fuel-efficient cars that is benefitting the Japanese automakers, and Detroit is getting pounded some more. By the way, that's going to be our expert market over the future. China already has higher fuel efficiency standards than we do.

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