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		<title>Driver Distraction: New Presidential Text-Messaging-While-Driving Ban</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/10/06/driver-distraction-new-presidential-text-messaging-while-driving-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s new ban on text messaging behind the wheel of government vehicles and texting in personal vehicles if using government-issued phones or on official business is an important warning to motorists to the dangers of distracted driving.
Federal employees will not be allowed to text while driving, according to an executive order signed Wednesday night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing: IOU&#8217;s For Clunkers</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/08/19/announcing-ious-for-clunkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read this blog at all over the last month you know I do not support the CARS program because of it&#8217;s excessive wastefulness and questionable effect &#8211; perfectly good vehicles and used car parts being destroyed before their normal usable life-span in a dangerous and dirty government mandated procedure.
Now we&#8217;re learning that dealerships who participated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ugly truth about the so called &#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221; program</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/08/03/the-ugly-truth-about-the-so-called-cash-for-clunkers-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ugly truth about the so called &#8220;Cash for Clunkers&#8221; program is that it has very little to do with improving our energy problems, increasing fuel efficiency, or protecting the environment.
The mandated &#8220;engine destruction procedure&#8221; is dangerous &#8211; spewing hot oil and coolant into the air around the engine compartment &#8211; and in some cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where does your gas money go?</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/06/19/where-does-your-gas-money-g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an outstanding report from American Petroleum Institute (API) called Energizing America. I&#8217;m going to cherry pick some of the best and most informative info-graphs from this report and highlight them over the next few weeks. You can download a free copy of their report from their website.

Click image to enlarge.
The API report wants to emphasis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuelishness! Feed: Oil firms above $60; Venezuela builds oil rig with China; The end of the gas guzzler; Will transform US auto fleet; Safety could suffer</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/05/21/fuelishness-feed-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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Oil firms above $60 &#8211; Oil prices have been on an upward trend since mid-April on equity-led rallies. They have recovered from below $33 in December after a plunge from record highs above $147 in July.
 
Venezuela set to build first oil rig with China &#8211; China buys 300,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude every day, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An American Automotive Industry Rescue Plan that Just Might Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/04/11/an-american-automotive-industry-rescue-plan-that-just-might-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/04/11/an-american-automotive-industry-rescue-plan-that-just-might-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me you&#8217;re more than a little disappointed by the early missteps of the Obama Administration&#8217;s efforts to save a few of the big American auto manufacturers, and by association, the entire industry.  The Presidential Task Force seems a little out of touch.
Enter Iowahawk. He&#8217;s a guy with a clue about what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Administration&#8217;s New Fuel Economy Standards Sued as Too Weak</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/04/04/new-fuel-economy-standards-sued-as-too-weak/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/04/04/new-fuel-economy-standards-sued-as-too-weak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Biological Diversity,  an organization of &#8220;biodiversity activists&#8221; who are keen to use the courts to help &#8220;protect the lands, waters, and climate that species need to survive&#8221; &#8211; have appealed to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to declare that the Obama administration&#8217;s new few standards for 2011 are violating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry&#8221; Fails CAFE Standards</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/03/02/presidential-task-force-on-the-auto-industry-fails-cafe-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/03/02/presidential-task-force-on-the-auto-industry-fails-cafe-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The was a minor kerfuffle last week as one blogger did the math and determined that the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry would fail CAFE fuel economy standards&#8230;
The vehicles owned by the Obama administration’s auto team were released in a list today by The Detroit News. While Detroit is focusing on the fact that the “Big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuelishness! Feed: $81,400,836,908 For a Tank of Gas?, Obama Declares War on Oil, Shovel-Ready Crude Stimulus</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/02/27/fuelishness-feed-81400836908-for-a-tank-of-gas-obama-declares-war-on-oil-shovel-ready-crude-stimulus/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/02/27/fuelishness-feed-81400836908-for-a-tank-of-gas-obama-declares-war-on-oil-shovel-ready-crude-stimulus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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Your gas tank&#8217;s full; that&#8217;ll be $81,400,836,908 : When a commuter pulled into a gas station in Richland, Wash., to fill up the tank of his 1994 Camaro on Tuesday, he thought the $90 he had on his PayPal debit card would easily cover the $26 bill&#8230;The transaction, Juan Zamora told the newspaper, was recorded as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuelishness! Feed: Plug-In Tax Credits; Reducing Travel Intensity; Chu Doesn&#8217;t Know What to Do; The Electric Car Re-Thought</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/02/25/fuelishness-feed-plug-in-tax-credits-reducing-travel-intensity-chu-doesnt-know-what-to-do-the-electric-car-re-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/02/25/fuelishness-feed-plug-in-tax-credits-reducing-travel-intensity-chu-doesnt-know-what-to-do-the-electric-car-re-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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Stimulus Bill Provides Major Increase in Plug-in Vehicle Purchase Credit Program : Under current law, a credit is available for each new qualified fuel cell  vehicle, hybrid vehicle, advanced lean burn technology vehicle, and alternative  fuel vehicle placed in service by a taxpayer during the taxable year. In  general, the credit amount varies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Plans to Block ANWR Forever</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/01/31/congress-plans-to-block-anwr-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska issued a statement  after members of Congress introduced a bill to permanently prohibit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 
Governor Palin writes she is &#8220;dismayed that legislation has again been introduced in Congress to prohibit forever oil and gas development in the most promising unexplored petroleum province [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuelishness! Feed</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/01/22/fuelishness-feed-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday, The Energized Guyz, a live theatrical production developed by  National Theatre for Children which is sponsored by Ameren, visited Mt. Vernon  District 80 Primary Center, McClellan Grade School and St. Mary School teaching  students about how to be &#8220;wise energy users.&#8221;
 
&#8220;We import a lot of our oil and if we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuelishness! Feed</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/01/16/fuelishness-feed-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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If Our Gas  Taxes Go Up, Will Gas Prices Become Unfair?  Faced with dwindling cash reserves, several states are considering  raising their Gas Tax. Those with efficient vehicles will come out ahead.  Low income families, the trucking industry and the alternative fuel industry  will finish last.
  
Taxing Motorists Based on Miles Traveled, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krauthammer&#8217;s &#8220;Net-Zero&#8221; Gas Tax</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/01/10/krauthammers-net-zero-gas-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Charles Krauthammer wrote in The Weekly Standard about a novel new kind of gas tax &#8211; a &#8220;net-zero&#8221; tax. In an effort to keep raw oil prices low, encourage improved fuel conservation, and shore-up alternative energy investment and development,  Mr. Krauthammer suggests we take the current low oil prices as an opportunity to impose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Won&#8217;t Impose Tougher Fuel Economy Requirements</title>
		<link>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/01/08/bush-wont-impose-tougher-fuel-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2009/01/08/bush-wont-impose-tougher-fuel-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Detroit Free Press
The Bush administration declined Wednesday to put into place tough new fuel economy rules for cars and trucks, letting the incoming Obama administration decide how to balance cutting Americans&#8217; demand for oil with billions of dollars in new costs for struggling Detroit automakers.
In a statement, the U.S. Department of Transportation said the [...]]]></description>
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