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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

The Truth About Cars

You could get the Geo Metro with an automatic, and I've found exactly one during my junkyard travels (and that includes EV conversions ). Gas was cheap during the late 1980s and early 1990s, other than a spike after Iraq invaded Kuwait , but some car buyers still wanted good fuel economy. Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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Department of Defense releases new operational energy strategy; more fight, less fuel

Green Car Congress

From FY 2003 to FY 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total of more than 3,000 Army personnel and contractors were wounded or killed in action from attacks on fuel and water resupply convoys. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, jet fuel (JP-8 or JP-5 on ships) is the most prevalent battlefield. In current.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I liken electric grid and renewable to the economic and political and military fiasco of the Iraq war. EFICIENCY OF ENERGY CONVERSION There is a law in science (more specifically, thermodynamics) that. Most of us are waiting to be able to plug into a 120v line like I do when my tractor battery needs a “refill&#.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Why not ake it all the way and spend 1 year of Iraq on retrofitting every home in America with nano solar. EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying?

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

Creative Greenius

I’m a bird lover too and a fellow member of the Audubon Society so we had yet another thing in common as we began what turned out to be a lively two hour conversation that went by in a flash. Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# Before I left I knew two things.

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