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Regarding Bob's list. I would like to know what GWB did to "undo" the 80 mpg car program. ...
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Fair enough:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...554/426?ck=nck
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Science 18 January 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5554, pp. 426 - 427
DOI: 10.1126/science.295.5554.426
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH:
Bush Trades Hybrid for Hydrogen Model
David Malakoff and Robert F. Service Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced last week that he is junking the Clinton Administration's effort to build superefficient cars in favor of building vehicles powered by pollution-free hydrogen fuel cells. Abraham released no budget details of the new program, but analysts say most of the old program's research efforts will continue. The deadlines for getting a car on the road, however, have been pushed way back.
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This is what GW defunded in January 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner...on_of_Vehicles
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The 80 mpg diesel-hybrid GM Precept
The 72 mpg diesel-hybrid Ford Prodigy
The 72 mpg diesel-hybrid Chyrsler ESX-3
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This ranks right up there with Reagan ripping the solar collectors off the White House and gutting Carter's energy programs.
Bob Wilson