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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

The Truth About Cars

The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s. Just wear warmer clothes for that drive across North Dakota in January! This one has some pricey options, including an AM radio and a heater.

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$67 Oil Has All The Majors Converging in Argentina

Green Car Congress

That means consumers are not reaping the benefits of cheap fuel. Drilling activity has continued to grow, but high costs and infrastructure constraints have prevented production levels from rocketing skywards as they did in places like Texas or North Dakota. per million Btu (MMBtu).

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Junkyard Find: 1993 Nissan Sentra with 320,165 miles

The Truth About Cars

However, I do make an effort to shoot inmates of car graveyards in other states (including Minnesota , Wisconsin , Illinois , Nevada , North Carolina , Arizona , North Dakota , Washington and Wyoming ) and other countries ( Sweden , England ). Today's Junkyard Find was found in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUVs instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota.

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