Record Gas Price Slows Shopping, Not Driving   21 May 2007 20:47 GMT
Consumers are reacting to record gas prices by cutting back on purchases, but dare we drive less? Never!! According to AAA, gas is now $3.129 per gallon nationwide, with 38 states offering gas at $3 or more. While consumers plan...
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Edmunds Nabs Spy Photo of the 2009 Audi A4   21 May 2007 20:47 GMT
These photos look real, though it’s hard to discern much difference from the current A4 (pictured left). Spy Photo...
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Forbes.com Picks Safest Autos   21 May 2007 20:47 GMT
It doesn't actually test these cars, of course. Rather, it derives its list from an analysis of combined ratings. To make the Forbes list, an auto must have Consumer Reports' highest rating for accident-avoidance capabilities. It must have a perfect...
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Audi TT Clubsport to Gain True Sports Car Grit   21 May 2007 20:47 GMT
While the Bauhaus looks of the car had immediate appeal when it arrived, it was priced like a Porsche Boxster or a Mercedes Benz SLK without delivering the true sports-car performance of these two-seater roadsters. Audi promises a redesign of...
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Nextel All-Star Challenge Confuses Even the Most Loyal Fans   21 May 2007 20:47 GMT
One problem with this year's All-Star event was the lack of all stars. Jamie McMurray and Carl Edwards didn't make it, though dinosaurs Michael Waltrip and Bobby Labonte did. NASCAR's formula for selecting drivers is a mathematical sink hole. The...
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Big SUVs Making a Comeback   21 May 2007 18:41 GMT
How's this for inverted logic -- SUV sales are rising at almost the same rate as the price of gasoline. The San Francisco Chronicle (quoting data from Edmunds) says GMC's Yukon XL sales were up a 72 percent in April...
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Utah Creates Biodiesel Highway   21 May 2007 18:41 GMT
The folks in Utah are turning public lawn liabilities into biodiesel bumper crops. The Utah Department of Transportation and Utah State University are teaming up to plant biodiesel crops on the median that divides I-15. Keeping medians mowed is an...
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Converting Mercedes 300SD to veggie oil   21 May 2007 18:41 GMT
This weekend we put our beloved 1983 300sd turbo diesel Mercedes Benz under the knife at LoveCraft Bio-Fuels in Silverlake. I had been restoring this badly abused Benz with the goal of making it an alt fuel vehicle but had...
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Corn Mania’s Political Fall-Out Comes Home   21 May 2007 12:15 GMT
President Bush's new-found religion for alternative fuels has set off quite the party in corn-growing states where prices for the grain have nearly doubled in the past year. Billions of tax-payer dollars for ehtanol processing plants are being sloshed around...
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Washington and Wall Street at Odds over Pure-Play Fuel Cell Firms   21 May 2007 12:15 GMT
Despite the promise of federal grants, contracts and subsidies for alternative fuel technologies, the stock prices of pure-play fuel cell companies languish in the doldrums. As Forbes.com points out, there are many good reasons not to put your money into...
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