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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: Pickup Trucks, Automotive Equipment, Memorial Day, Vehicles, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Prius leads 2013 California car sales; domestic brands make gains
The Toyota Prius hybrid was the bestselling vehicle in California during the first quarter of this year, narrowly outpacing Honda’s redesigned Accord sedan. Toyota posted sales of 15,661 of the hybrids, leading the Accord’s sales of 15,369...
Tags: Ford, Toyota, Passenger Cars, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Vehicles
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Mail Call - May 24
“Starting 2006 to 2012, Morgan County took 10 steps forward. In the last four months, Morgan County has taken 30 steps backward.” — Berkeley Springs, W.Va. “This is another quote I decided to call in. Yes, indeed, children do...Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Government Health Care, White House, Banking, Politics
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IRS scandal fails to dent Obama's standing
For more than two years, GOP lawmakers have sought - and failed - to find a scandal to take down the presidency of Barack Obama. It's not been for lack of trying. There was Solyndra, an expensive, failed effort to underwrite a firm promising solar...Tags: Tea Party Movement, CNN (tv network), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republican Party, Justice System
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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: Kathleen Sebelius, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, White House, Taxation, Richard M. Daley
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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: Tea Party Movement, Darrell E Issa, Jay Carney, White House, Prosecution
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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: Passenger Cars, Tesla Motors, Inc., SUVs and Crossovers, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Elections
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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: Tesla Motors, Inc., Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Manufacturing and Engineering, Companies and Corporations, Automotive Equipment
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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: Toyota, Startups, Ford, Executive Branch, Vehicles
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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: Central Intelligence Agency, Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Political Fundraising, Eric Holder
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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: Corporate Officers, Beijing (China), Energy, Students, Nobel Prize Awards
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