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...only could the move potentially kick-start the sputtering U.S. auto industry, while saving the equivalent of some 1.8 billion barrels of oil, it also raises hopes that the Obama Administration will be able to forge a compromise on the tricky matter of a national cap on greenhouse-gas emissions. "It's an enormous breakthrough for national legislation," says Vickie Patton, a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund. "It ends years of polarization on extraordinarily difficult issues and leaves us with a sense of progress." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...course, with the federal government pouring billions into U.S. automakers like GM, those executives may have little choice but to get on board. And there are still nagging concerns that new fuel-economy standards alone won't be enough to wean Americans from their gas guzzlers. Since gas prices fell during the recession, consumers' appetite for compacts and hybrids has dwindled, and sales of large SUVs are once again ticking upward. If gas prices stayed relatively low between now and 2016 - which is unlikely - automakers could end up producing cars and trucks that Americans won't be eager...
...that the new rules will still give American drivers the latitude to buy heavier cars and trucks if they want. The White House official said that each vehicle class will have its own tighter standard, meaning that automakers won't be able to get away with balancing lots of gas-guzzlers with a few highly efficient cars. "It preserves consumer choice to buy any type of car, but all cars will be cleaner," the official said. (See the history of the electric...
...mother of Rogerio da Silva, Debora da Silva, refuses to give up the fight. Da Silva says nine men killed her son after stopping him at a gas station. She recounts that they asked him if he had any previous convictions and when he responded that he had once spent two years in jail for armed robbery, they allegedly told him his time was up. The 29-year old was ambushed as he drove away and shot four times, da Silva says, citing eyewitnesses at the scene. She says it was eyewitnesses who told her that some...
...says her sources and other witnesses are too scared to testify. In addition, the gas station stymied her attempts to secure its CCTV footage for seven weeks and when they finally handed it over, the tape had been erased. She claims the police changed the story on their official reports. When she called for the officers to be tried for homicide, officials said they could not try all nine without knowing who pulled the trigger and closed the case...