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IHS Automotive forecasts 88.6M unit global light vehicle market in 2015; 2.4% growth

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The campaign is expected to have a long-lasting effect on premium parts/vehicle prices in China. Coupled with this, the momentum could lead to downward adjustment in premium pricing, which helps provide solid foundation for premium vehicle penetration to further increase in China in the next decade. North America.

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The Next Big Offshore Boom Is About To Happen in Brazil

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No wonder, then, that as many as 30 companies took part in the bidding round—the first of a total nine rounds, to take place between now and 2019. After the oil price collapse and a huge corruption scandal, Petrobras has struggled to stay afloat, let alone find the billions of investments needed to develop new deposits.

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

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High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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Electric motorcycles are gaining momentum

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Actor Ewan McGregor and his friend, Charley Boorman, premiered “ Long Way Up ,” which follows them riding from Argentina to Los Angeles on electric Harley-Davidson LiveWire motorcycles. With fewer moving parts, electric motorcycles also have very low fuel and maintenance costs. Why should I consider an electric motorcycle?

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European Biodiesel Production Up 16.6% in 2009

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practices on the worldwide biodiesel market—specifically, on the part of US biodiesel producers. The product was offered at a lower price. Biodiesel exports from Argentina are also becoming problematic for the EU producers, EBB said. emerging part of an iceberg of around 4 million tons of. and countervailing duties.

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USDA Long-Term Projections See Ongoing But Slower Growth in Corn Use for Ethanol

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The new projections cover agricultural crop and livestock commodities, agricultural trade and aggregate indicators such as farm income and food prices through 2018. USDA’s projections assume the ethanol tax credit (reduced to $0.45/gallon Normal weather also is assumed throughout the projection period.

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

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And damned if California isn’t going to score like a horny Republican Governor on Viagra in Argentina. I give you a menu with pricing and rebate information for each item recommended and you choose enough to add up to 40% energy savings. Hell, even my Exxon/Mobile-loving city council of Torrance is capable of that.