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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

Truth was we were taking Pontiac performance off the race track, like the Corporation wanted, and putting it on the street,” with the GTO, “like the Corporation didn’t want,” wrote Wangers in his reserve Glory Days. With Tri-Energy and Tremendous Responsibility emblems, it appeared Pontiac’s funding in racing had all been for naught.

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Study explores energy balance of Fischer-Tropsch diesel via autothermal reforming of pyrolysis oil from biomass residue; spreadsheet offered as tool

Green Car Congress

Researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology, BASF Catalyst and Golden BioMass Fuels Corporation report on their investigation of an energy balance, in broad outline, for the production of a high-quality synthetic diesel from residual crop biomass via a Fischer-Tropsch route in a paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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