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The Grand Tour's "Sand Job," Nothing to See Here, I'm Afraid

The Truth About Cars

The challenge is to create a rally raid car and then sorta-kinda follow the route of the old Paris-Dakar rally, the challenging race that you might think has run from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal since its inception in 1977. The border of Mauritania and Senegal is reached, but there’s no bridge anywhere! It doesn’t make sense.

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Green Car Congress

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week. The Politics of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies (Victor, 2009).

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