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		<title>GM Wants to Convince You the Volt is Better Than Other Electric Cars (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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The Chevy Volt will soon be launched commercially, and so GM is intensifying its campaign to convince potential buyers. Here are only some of the recent Volt news items to hit the wire: a ]]></description>
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		<title>Would Simply Slowing Down Our Travel &amp; Shipping Help Kick Our Oil Habit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Making a slow boat look fast... photo: Neal McQ via flickr.

Having assessed the overall picture of how our patterns of global shipping and global aviation use tons of fuel, leave a high environmental footprint, and how technological changes can help ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Decade of Prius: 1.8 Million Sold, Half in the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TreeHugger</dc:creator>
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Photo: Michael Graham Richard

The Little Car that Could
The Toyota Prius hybrid has been sold in the U.S. for 10 years (even longer in Japan, where it was first introduced in 1997), and during that decade this car went from a small niche player consi...]]></description>
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		<title>How Can We Reduce Oil Consumption &amp; Still Ship Goods and Ourselves Around the Globe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TreeHugger</dc:creator>
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Container ship photo: Daniel Ramirez; airliner photo: Bob MacInnes

Two things which I think are worth keeping front and center when discussing how we wean ourselves off our petroleum addiction: Travel between nations is good; trade between nations is...]]></description>
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		<title>London&#8217;s New Bicycle Rental Has Canadian Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TreeHugger</dc:creator>
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Image from londoncyclist

Today is the big day:  London's new bicycle rental system is being launched. Called Barclays Cycle Hire, after the bank which is a corporate sponsor to the tune of £25M, the system is high in Canadian content.   

Modelled a...]]></description>
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		<title>Nissan LEAF to have 8-Year/100,000 Miles Battery Warranty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TreeHugger</dc:creator>
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Nissan Leaf battery. Photo: Nissan

Matching the Chevy Volt
As predicted here, Nissan has decided to match GM and offer a 8-year/100k miles warranty on the battery pack of its LEAF electric car. It will be great for early adopters who will have one le...]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Asphalt: Why We Are Running Out Of The Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TreeHugger</dc:creator>
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Pavemart.com

John previously wrote about how rural roads are going back to the stone age because of the cost of asphalt. The sticky black liquid was the bottom of the barrel in the oil industry, often sold at a loss, to be mixed with aggregates and u...]]></description>
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		<title>More Highways Becoming Pedestrian Deathtraps (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TreeHugger</dc:creator>
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There are plenty of reasons that America's transportation infrastructure needs retooling -- one of them is that highways are increasingly seeing a wide range of problems, from congestion to falling into disrepair. But there are even more blunt proble...]]></description>
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		<title>Finally! GM Announces Volt Pricing ($41,000 Before Rebates)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TreeHugger</dc:creator>
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Photo: GM

Chevrolet Dealers in Launch Markets are Taking Reservations
After years of waiting, we finally know how much the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid will be sold for: The Volt's MSRP will start at $41,000 ($33,500 net of the full federal tax credit, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Can UPS Improve the MPG of Its Ground Fleet by 20%?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: Flickr, CC

UPS has just set itself a new fuel-efficiency goal for all of its "package delivery fleet", aiming for a 20% increase in MPG between the years 2000 and 2020. They are already well underway, with a 10% increase in mileage for their f...]]></description>
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