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...more than three decades Detroit's Big Three and their allies have successfully blocked or limited changes to the nation's fuel-economy rules. However, with General Motors and Chrysler LLC facing bankruptcy, the carmakers are making what could be one last stand, and this one they may well lose...
...Currently fuel-economy standards are set by the Environmental Protection Agency. But President Obama, moving to fulfill one of his campaign promises to the state of California, has asked the EPA to consider revising Bush-era rulings so California can impose its own limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles. On Thursday, the EPA held public hearings on a possible revision, and it will accept written comments until April 6 with a decision, hopefully, soon to follow. But the EPA has already indicated its discomfort with the original decision made several years ago to deny California the right. Environmentalists...
...Automakers argue that the state's greenhouse-gas emission standards amount to new fuel-economy rules because about the only way to meet the California standard is to limit the use of fuel burned in the engine: Cars and trucks would have to get 43 miles per gallon on average by 2016, which is far higher than the 35 miles per gallon by 2020 target currently approved by Congress in the Energy Act of 2007. Such a leap would require sweeping changes in the vehicles American drive...
Many analysts and observers say Kudrin is being massively optimistic. Talk of 2% or 3% growth next year are "the numbers of a public official who is trying not to add fuel to the fire of public fears," says Roland Nash, chief strategist at Renaissance Capital. "There are a lot of politics being played out and a lot of fears. I don't think anybody anywhere trusts any forecasts right...
...have led the Bears in scoring this season. The Bears won their first league game at Yale, but have dropped every game since. The squad comes into Lavietes dying for a win before season’s end, and a painful overtime loss to Penn last weekend only added fuel to the fire. Last time the two squads met, four Harvard players posted double figures. Freshman Brogan Berry tallied 17 points on 5-for-6 shooting, while Finelli led the team with seven boards. In the end the Crimson defeated the Bears 71-46.The Bulldogs are coming off a flip flop...