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...drove a pizza-delivery van until her pregnancy made her too sick to continue. Now a few days a week, De-Shawto gets up before dawn at their temporary home at the Barbara Bonner Family Shelter and heads off to work prepping cars to be sold at a local auto-auction facility. He's lucky to take home...
...nearby communities, a number of our readers found more to complain about than praise. "At the end of a two-lane county highway, we've got a casino that draws thousands of customers to our small farming valley," wrote a Californian. "As a result, the fatality rate for auto accidents is one of the state's highest." A Connecticut reader declared, "Life has changed for those living in the shadow of casinos--and not for the better. We have more traffic, more crime and higher drunk-driving rates." Said a fellow Nutmeg Stater: "We cannot vote in tribal elections...
LANCASTER: Maybe eight or 10 years. The major auto companies have prototypes, and today you can actually put down your credit card and buy a fuel-cell product. Coleman Powermate [a division of Sunbeam] just started selling a quiet, exhaust-free generator that uses our technology. It's for industry--it costs $5,995--but a consumer version is due in the next few months. General Electric is involved in fuel cells. They have an investment in one of our competitors [Plug Power...
CORREA: Should somebody hold a gun to the auto industry's head and force higher fuel-efficiency standards? Actually, in the short run that is usually the right answer. But if you are thinking about a real shift, then probably not. Would you like to be the world's best sailmaker in 1880 and predicate your company on that? You'd probably win the next two years' worth of orders. You have to be the best at the game today, and you have to be clairvoyant enough to know the game in the future...
What do evangelical Christians, Hollywood liberals and anyone stuck in traffic behind a Range Rover have in common? A desire to rethink the American love affair with the sport-utility vehicle (SUV), which accounts for 27% of new-auto sales. A national television ad campaign will be launched in January linking gas guzzlers to the war on terror. One commercial opens with an image of an SUV driver pumping gas, followed by stock footage of a terrorist training camp. The closing text reads, "What is your SUV doing to the world?" The two 30-second spots are the project...