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Pickup truck surge is powering strong May auto sales
May is turning out to be another good month for car sales, according to auto research firms J.D. Power and Associates and TrueCar.com. Both TrueCar and J.D. Power forecast that May auto sales will top 1.4 million vehicles, about an 8% increase from...
Tags: Memorial Day, Vehicles, Media Industry, Pickup Trucks, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Key IRS official refuses to testify
WASHINGTON — In a contentious climax Wednesday to a series of congressional hearings, Lois Lerner, a key IRS manager, invoked her right to not testify about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, igniting howls from Republicans and...
Tags: Barack Obama, Darrell E Issa, Prosecution, Internal Revenue Service, Crime, Law and Justice
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Tesla Motors pays off Department of Energy advanced technology loan
Upstart electric car maker Tesla Motors on Wednesday paid off a Department Energy loan that had become a political hot potato. Tesla owed the federal government $451.8 million on a loan that was part of a special program to develop alternative fuel...
Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Media Industry, Mitt Romney, Automotive Equipment, Economy, Business and Finance
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Electric carmaker Tesla pays off U.S. loan
DETROIT (Reuters) - Electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc on Wednesday paid off its U.S. Department of Energy loan nine years earlier than required, using money raised last week in a stock and debt offering. The automaker said on Wednesday that it wired...Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Automotive Equipment, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Bankruptcy
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RPT-INSIGHT-The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
ReutersBy Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Reuters) - In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by...Tags: Sales, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Vehicles, S&P 500, Waste Management and Pollution Control
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There Are Plenty of Scandals, Just Not These Ones
There’s a familiar template for the “scandals” that have so far “plagued” the Obama administration, in that they are all, for the most part, total bullshit and/or unfortunate events in the vast federal bureaucracy that have...
Tags: Media Industry, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Computer Networking and Internet, Interior Policy
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Special Report: The Rise and Fall of China's Sun King
ReutersHONG KONG (Reuters) - In a 2010 speech before a packed ballroom of university students in Sydney, Shi Zhengrong, founder of Chinese solar-panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, listed the people who had been important in his rise to fame and riches....Tags: Credit and Debt, Solar Energy, Economy, Business and Finance, Teaching and Learning, Trials
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Tesla to raise $830 million from investors, repay U.S. debt
Fresh off its first profitable quarter, Tesla Motors Inc. plans to raise about $830 million in a stock and debt offering that will enable the electric car maker to pay off its $465-million federal loan. Founder Elon Musk, who owns 33 million shares,...
Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Vehicles, Gartner Incorporated, Automotive Equipment, Mitt Romney
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As Tesla taps capital markets for cash, share price could top $100
Tesla Motors shares are trading at about $90 and could easily top $100, buoyed by its ability to tap capital markets for about $1 billion through its announced sale of stock and convertible notes. It is an impressive performance that will help the...
Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Vehicles, Media Industry, Automotive Equipment, Thomas Edison
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Making sense of scandals
The Obama administration's first term was remarkably free of scandals. The second term is making up for lost time. Some of the President Barack Obama's harshest critics have even begun comparing him to President Richard Nixon, a byword for corruption,...Tags: Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, Karl Rove, Internal Revenue Service, Richard M. Daley
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Why are conservatives skeptical of environmental claims? Solyndra and Fisker
Peter Jensen's editorial on conservatives' attitude toward environmental protection is misleading ("Don't save the planet," May 4). The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stressed the importance of the marketing...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Cleanup, Energy Saving
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