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The Senate’s Fuel Economy Standard: Incredibly Tough, Probably Impossible & Enormously Expensive

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Gary Witzenburg, writing on The Car Connection, explains the difficulties car manufacturers and consumers will have if Congress adopts into law the Senate Energy Bill's requirement that Corporate Everage Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, reach 35 mpg by 2020 for ...
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City Destroys One Auto Business to Make Landscaping for Another

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Claiming it was trying to save 4,900 area jobs, the City of Toledo, Ohio evicted 83 homeowners and 16 businesses so that carmaker DaimlerChrysler could use their condemned land to expand its manufacturing plant. City Destroys One Auto Business to ...
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CAFE Standards Hypocrite

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the prime sponsor of legislation adopted by the Senate Thursday that will require automakers, under Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE), to drastically increase fuel economy to 35 mpg for cars and SUVs over ...
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The Global Warming Scam

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Melanie Phillips has a great post on, as she puts it, "the global warming scam." Her first sentence captures the zeitgeist surrounding the issue perfectly: You know how we're told sixty times per minute that man-made global warming is no ...
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In Detroit, All Eyes Are Fixed on Congress

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Writing on TownHall.com, our Eric Peters examines the many challenges faced and (so far) surmounted by the Big Three domestic automakers, GM, Chrysler and Ford, in light of what may be their biggest challenge yet: A Senate energy bill that ...
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Rising Gas Prices, Tony Soprano-Style

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The Senate Finance Committee today approved $29 billion in new taxes on the oil industry. Some of the funds will be given to corn growers, who will continue to receive new taxpayer monies as long as the Iowa Caucus lives ...
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Black Conservatives Mark “Juneteenth” Civil Rights Holiday

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Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are asking that the oldest and most recognized commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States - "Juneteenth," observed on June 19 - be used as a day for reflection ...
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Bush Administration Law of the Sea Treaty Defense Inaccurate

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Husband David has a letter in today's Washington Times. It corrects factual errors in a June 13 op-ed by deputy secretary of state John Negroponte and deputy secretary of defense Gordon England defending the Bush Administration's decision to ratify the ...
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Gas ‘Price Gouging’ Bill Helps Politicians, Not Consumers

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The House of Representatives-approved gasoline "price gouging" bill will provide no gas price relief to consumers, says Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli, in an op-ed published by GOPUSA: As the summer driving season begins, consumer complaints and media hype over ...
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Health Care Rationing, Government-Style

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Writing on his excellent personal blog, David Hogberg compares the myths promoted by advocates of government health care systems with the realities in nations that have such systems, noting that a half million Britons have now been told they will ...
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