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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

The Truth About Cars

You could buy versions of this car all the way through 2017 in Pakistan. Gas was cheap during the late 1980s and early 1990s, other than a spike after Iraq invaded Kuwait , but some car buyers still wanted good fuel economy. My guess is that the reels turned over once, for a total of 162,150.9 Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

Green Car Congress

The crude is so cheap it’s pretty much free for them, the margins are going to be massive. Along with acquiring a controlling stake in Korea’s S-Oil, the desert kingdom is commissioning a new refinery in Jizan which would have a capacity of around 400,000 barrels per day when it begins operations in 2017.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The largest increase in oil production comes from Iraq, followed by Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Canada. Without further action by 2017, the energy-related infrastructure then in place would generate all the CO 2 emissions allowed in the 450 Scenario up to 2035.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. Oil is the alternative.

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