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Consumers Lean Toward Smaller Cars As Prices Rise: Survey
- Published on Thursday, 01 December 2011 20:00
- Written by Raghavan Mayur, Investor's Business Daily
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- Category: Energy
Rising fuel prices generally lead customers to look for smaller cars. If prices rise more dramatically, they might consider cars that use alternate fuels. But if fuel prices shoot up, demand for new cars could drop at double-digit rates. This is a prospect that no vehicle manufacturer wants to consider. Add a comment
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Post oil: Glimpses of life after fossil fuel
- Published on Sunday, 16 October 2011 13:22
- Written by Jina Moore, Christian Science Monitor
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- Category: Energy
Americans like to imagine the future. From the world's fairs of the early 20th century to futuristic magazine features in the 1950s to the 1980s "Back to the Future" films, we love dreaming up what might come next.
Drivers Warm To Natural Gas
- Published on Thursday, 30 June 2011 00:13
- Written by Raghavan Mayur, Investor's Business Daily
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- Category: Energy
Americans are open to natural gas powered vehicles. In a recent TechnoMetrica survey, 70% of Americans said that they are familiar with natural gas as a motor fuel and nearly half of those who are aware would consider buying a vehicle which runs on natural gas.
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Americans Back Offshore, ANWR Drilling
- Published on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 01:25
- Written by Sean Higgins, Investor's Business Daily
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- Category: Energy
With the price of gas up 39 cents at the pump in a month and heading higher amid turmoil in much of the Middle East, Americans wonder why the U.S. isn't doing more to exploit its own oil resources.
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Drill, Baby, Still
- Published on Thursday, 06 May 2010 23:39
- Written by Investor's Business Daily Editorial
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- Category: Energy
Energy: After BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, federal and state governments moved quickly to shelve plans to drill off the U.S. coast. But a new poll taken after the spill suggests Americans still support drilling.
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