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China’s economic stimulus to spark robust copper consumption in 2024 – ET Auto

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New Delhi: China is expected to amplify its stimulus efforts next year, potentially boosting demand for metals, with copper consumption forecasted to rise, the Commodity Outlook Report 2024 by ICICIDirect said in a report.

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Industrial material prices fall sharply on concerns about Chinese slowdown – ET Auto

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Expectations for increased demand for industrial materials were further dampened by the failure of the National People’s Congress in March to come up with a major real estate stimulus package. China’s crude steel production minus steel consumption in January-March was about 27.14

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Ford Starts EV Test Drives

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Here is a the entire text of the article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Local utility RheinEnergie AG will supply vehicle-charging stations for the test, which is being financed by the German government’s economic-stimulus package, Dudenhoeffer said. Ford Plans to Start Electric-Car Tests in Germany Next Month.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Other than the good news on oil consumption, very little was said in regards to transportation fuels. Renewables account for approximately 10-15% of the global energy infrastructure investment and according to New Energy Finance renewables have been hit hard by the global recession with a 47% in Q1 2009 vs. Q1 2008 ($13.3

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

This is a well written story in the Pasadena Star News about how the utilities are gearing up for the coming plug-in vehicles. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. By 2012, we should have made some progress on this, just in time to re-elect Obama to his second term.