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Pencil-Necked Finance Dweebs Suggest Anyone Making Six-Figures Should Only Buy a $15,000 Car

The Truth About Cars

Setting some variables in this equation, they propose a monthly insurance rate of $147, fuel costs of $260 per month, and maintenance pegged at $95.50 A ’17 Jag XF with 88K looks nice but is sure to cost far more than 10 cents a mile in maintenance. per month (about 10 cents per mile). Simple math leaves is with $330.50

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

Green Car Congress

While production costs and refining costs for heavy oil exceed that for light oil, applying information technology solutions for decision-making has provided a significant increase in the margins and profits of operations, according to Chevron engineers in a paper presented on their system earlier this year. Source: Chevron.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota BZ4X EV

Clean Fleet Report

What will power the next generation 4Runner, Sequoia, Land Cruiser, Tacoma, Tundra, and Supra? Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. So this first step needs to be quickly followed-up with more electric vehicles of different sizes and for different uses. Stay tuned!

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

Cars That Think

Readable genomic DNA has been recovered after having been frozen in the tundra for 2 million years. Indeed, both the cost and the per-instrument throughput of writing and reading DNA have been improving exponentially for decades, roughly keeping up with Moore’s Law. DNA is an intrinsic part of life on this planet.

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