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Junkyard Find: 1982 Peugeot 505S Turbodiesel

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I've found an oil-burning 505 in a boneyard in California's Central Valley, so let's take a look. The 504 stayed in production quite deep into the 21st century ( in Nigeria ), and the 505 was its ordained successor. The 505 was sedan-only here for '82, but was offered with both gasoline and diesel engines.

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Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

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The scientific case for such a strategy was laid out in an Op Ed in The New York Times by Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleague, Professor David Victor. million lives lost each year due to black carbon soot.

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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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Although Nigeria has reduced flare gas emissions by 28% from 2000 levels, the country’s oil industry still wastes 15bcm of natural gas every year. —David Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law & Regulation at the University of California San Diego.

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