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Junkyard Find: 2006 Mazda Mazdaspeed6

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Here's one of the handful that made it out of dealerships, found in a self-service boneyard in Tulsa, Oklahoma a few months back. This is the second Mazdaspeed6 I've found in a car graveyard, after a 2007 in a facility near Denver, Colorado.

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Study finds 2008 recession contributed to increase in age of US LDV fleet, slowing of emission reductions

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The 2008 recession exacerbated this trend; nationwide light-duty vehicles sales for 2009 models were 21% less than in 2008 and 35% less than 2007 pre-recession levels—the fewest new vehicles sold in the United States since the early 1980s. —Bishop and Stedman (2014). 29% higher for carbon monoxide; 9?

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DOE awards more than $145M for advanced solar technologies under SunShot Initiative

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The SunShot Incubator Program is an expansion of DOE's successful PV Technology Incubator Program, launched in 2007, which to date has funded $60 million in projects that have been leveraged into $1.3 Solyndra was backed in part by capital from funds associated with George Kaiser, a Tulsa billionaire and Democratic fundraiser.

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