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Applying for $75,000 in stimulus funds to purchase 10 solar-powered bus sheltersBy Brian Lothridge Olean Times Herald, Olean, NY IN OTHER ACTION, [Olean City] council approved applying for $75,000 in stimulus funds to purchase 10 solar-powered bus shelters. The resolution passed 4-2 with aldermen Earl McElfresh, R-Ward 1, and Linda Edstrom, R-Ward 4, voting against it. ...
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In Japan, the Hummer Is Now Officially Green - NYTimes.comStarting this week, Japan’s new, looser fuel-efficiency standards for imported cars will provide a subsidy to buyers of the hulking power machines.
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IRS Announces 2010 Standard Mileage RatesWASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued the 2010 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2010, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car ...
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At Least 5 Dead, 12 Hurt in Connecticut Power Plant Blast - NYTimes.comA massive gas explosion rocked a power plant in Middletown, Conn., setting off tremors that were felt miles away.
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Better Place Adds $350 Million Toward Its Electric Car Goals - NYTimes.comThe infusion of cash is a vote of confidence for Better Place, the closely watched start-up that hopes to create vast networks of charge spots for electric vehicles.
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8Living on Earth: Harnessing the SevernIf there's one thing we ought to have learned from the climate change generated by human activity, it is that we must take into account the potential for unintended consequences of our attempts to fix the previous problems we have created. Certainly, every effort must be made to avoid another ...Geoffrey Ames added 3 months ago
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Lessons on How to Guzzle Less Gas, From Europe and Japan - NYTimes.comIn New Zealand we always wondered why Americans bothered with long cars when small cars made so much more sense. Long cars died here about about 50 years ago.Murray Peat added 11 months ago
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8The Price Is Wrong for Oil Shale and Tar Sand TechMcGee says the recent drop in oil prices has not affected the company’s plans. “We are still moving forward,” he says. “We’re taking the view that these recent drops in oil prices are temporary.”Geoffrey Ames added 14 months ago
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8Oil Prices: Drilling vs. ConservationYes consider this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16sperling.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin Vancouver BC, has a carbon tax... great model, one that will only work when it is universally adopted. I'm sure there will be problems someday with building solar panels and wind ...Geoffrey Ames added 15 months ago
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8Washington Times - Oil falls below $62 as investors eye weak demand"The Department of Transportation said Friday that Americans drove 5.6 percent less, or 15 billion fewer miles, in August compared with same month a year ago _ the biggest single monthly decline since the data was first collected regularly in 1942."Geoffrey Ames added 16 months ago
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