| His leverage maxed out Obama regroups for fiscal battles with Congress at Missouri auto plant |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
WASHINGTON -- Locked in a tug of war with lawmakers over spending and borrowing, President Barack Obama is pressing his case in America's heartland that Congress mustn't jeopardize fragile economic progress with threats of a government shutdown. A recently expanded auto plant near Kansas City, Mo., is the venue for Obama to argue Friday that the U.S. economy is primed to thrive, if ...
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| Bumper Crop of Electric Cars Makes Impressive Showing at PSEG Plaza |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
It was a lineup of cars almost unimaginable just a few years ago. In the plaza outside Public Service Electric & Gas headquarters in Newark yesterday were parked more than a dozen electric vehicles. There was the Toyota Prius plug-in, Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf, and Ford Fusion, to name just a few. There even was a $41,350 all electric-vehicle from BMW, which is expected to go on sale in ...
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| Jaguar F-Type v Porsche Boxster Comparison Review |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
Boxster S PDK on the chase. We're on a special slice of road deserving of two hot roadsters. It's early morning so the trucks that typically ferry coal from the mines to nearby power plants are likely still being filled, and the road is clear. It's way too cold for roadsters - we're talking single-digit degrees and sleepy winter sun - but each fabric roof has been electrically ...
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| Cars destroyed in Dublin garage fire |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
A number of cars were destroyed in a fire at a garage in Ringsend in Dublin in the early hours of this morning. Five units of the Dublin Fire Service were called to the scene of the blaze on Fitzwilliam Quay at around 2.30am. There are no reports of injuries. The cause of the fire is not yet ...
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| Fiat 500 next-gen city car to grow around US customers |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
Fiat 500′s largest market last year, with 43,772 sales in the States outgunning the pint-sized Italian’s 42,919 units in its home ...
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| Manual labor helps Chrysler boost capacity |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
Chrysler Group LLC is getting creative when it comes to boosting capacity at its engine and transmission factories, adding more labor-intensive lines with less automation to increase flexibility and save ...
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| Stars Cars Olivia Wilde Discusses the Dangers of Formula One Racing the Perils of Owning a 1958 Chevy and Chris Hemsworth’s Distractingly Hunky Body |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
Olivia Wilde has proven herself quite versatile as an actor, taking on roles in a wide range of genres: drama, comedy, medical, science fiction, video game, and The O.C. And she's clearly gorgeous. But what you might not know is that she's also incredibly incisive. This might have something to do with the genetic cleverness she's inherited and nurtured from the generations of ...
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| Honda recalls 400000 Odyssey MDX cars over airbag fault |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
Honda MDX SUVs are affected by the recall globally, including 374,000 in the US. The official recall notice published by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US explains the supplemental restraint system (SRS) airbag system malfunction is caused by an electrical interference. ...
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| Fisker’s loan up for sale after missed payments |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
following the company’s failure to repay federal loans of US$168 million ($178 million). Fisker won a US$528 million ($559 million) loan from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles manufacturing loan program in 2009, of which only $192 million ($203 million) had been drawn down before it started defaulting on payments. Despite additional capital from private and ...
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| FMCSA begins efforts to improve truck safety |
Sep 20th, 2013 |
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In early 2012, President Obama signed into law the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, also known as MAP-21. Among other things, this law provided the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with the authority and the means to continue its efforts to improve highway safety and reduce the incidence of truck accidents across the U.S.
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