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Monthly Archives: January 2009

2009-01-28

Car lifetime and miles driven

I’ve been doing some research into car fuel economy and how easy it would be to increase the efficiency of cars. Two things I needed to find were how long cars last and how many miles they are driven. I found an interesting Department of Transportation study with equations for this information. Car lifetimes are [...]

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2009-01-26

Good news for Chrysler

Two news stories could lead to Chrysler surviving the current economic panic, and becoming a strong company again. The first is Chrysler’s deal with Fiat. The second is Obama’s order for the EPA to reconsider the Bush administration’s rule disallowing California from implementing emissions standards less lax than federal standards. This potential rule reversal is [...]

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2009-01-22

On the road to government accountability

Yesterday Obama sent an important memo to the heads of departments and agencies in the executive branch. The President wrote:

A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires
transparency. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “sunlight is said
to be the best of disinfectants.” In our democracy, the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through
transparency, is the [...]

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