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NewsAugust 3, 2010

Energy Bill Proposes $3.8 Billion in NG Vehicle Subsidies

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democrats last week unveiled an energy bill that includes $3.8 billion in rebates for natural gas-powered vehicles, the Dallas News reported.

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NewsAugust 3, 2010

New Legislative Efforts to Restore Biodiesel Tax Credit

WASHINGTON - The House Ways and Means Committee last week released a draft of a bill containing an extension of the biodiesel tax credit for 2011, Biodiesel Magazine reported.

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NewsJuly 27, 2010

Senate Committee Passes EV & Loan Program Bills

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week approved a $3.6 billion bill aimed at promoting the use of electric vehicles.

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NewsMay 3, 2010

Proposed Draft of Auto Bill Draft Would Require ‘Black Boxes’

WASHINGTON - Under newly proposed auto-safety legislation being considered by Congress, all new vehicles would need to be equipped with "black boxes" that record performance data and federal safety regulators would be granted the authority to order immediate recalls.

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NewsSeptember 25, 2009

Peterbilt Delivers U.S. House of Representatives’ First Hybrid Truck

WASHINGTON - The environmentally-friendly truck is slated to carry thousands of lbs. of furniture and office equipment on the Capitol Campus and throughout the Greater Washington, D.C. area.

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NewsMarch 31, 2009

U.S. Mileage Standards Up in 2011-MY

WASHINGTON – The standard would require compacts, sedans, and other passenger cars to average 30.2 miles per gallon in combined city/highway driving.

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ArticlesJanuary 20, 2009

Stop Subsidizing Vehicular Dinosaurs

I have spent the past 25 years in the automotive industry. I am the president of Oregon's largest vehicle leasing and finance company. I am an investor, an innovator, an employer, a fleet purchaser, a portfolio manager and the chief executive officer of a business that's central to the auto industry.

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NewsDecember 11, 2008

Auto Industry Rescue Plan Dies in Senate

The Associated Press reported late Thursday night that bipartisan negotiations in Senate on a Republican version of the House-passed automotive industry bailout plan fell apart after the United Auto Workers balked at demands for dramatic wage cuts.

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Market Trendsby Mike AntichDecember 9, 2008

A Tough Time to Operate a Fleet

Twenty-five years ago, there was a utopian vision of what fleet management would be like in the 21st century. However, this new century has been far from utopian. Its reality is more like a maelstrom. In eight short years, fleet managers have been buffeted by one major crisis after another, most of them unprecedented and severe. The first decade of the 21st century is shaping up to be one of the most tumultuous in the history of fleet management.

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NewsDecember 1, 2008

NAFA and AFLA Urge Passage of Bridge Loan to Detroit Three

PRINCETON, NJ – Both the NAFA Fleet Management Association and the Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association have sent formal letters to the U.S. Congress to provide financial assistance to General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.

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