The President continues his stealth green initiative—tightening fuel economy standards for cars and trucks
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U.S. Oil Demand Grew Faster Than China’s in 2013. That Won’t Last
Production has been booming for awhile, but last year American demand for the black stuff grew by 390,000 barrels a day
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Transportation: Ford Introduces A Line of Electric Cars—With a Twist
After decades of waiting and wishing, 2011 really is shaping up to be the year of the electric car. GM’s Volt—an electric car with a gas-powered “range extender”—and Nissan’s all-electric Leaf will soon be appearing in Americans’ garages. (Ads for the cars—Nissan has the one with the polar bear—are already almost impossible …