Watered down and everything, but it finally went through:
The legislation calls for a 40% increase in fuel efficiency for new cars and light trucks by 2020, for a fleetwide average of 35 miles per gallon. It also requires a fivefold increase — to 36 billion gallons — in the amount of alternative homegrown fuels, such as ethanol, that must be added to the nation’s gasoline supply by 2022.
And the ethanol gravy train continues…
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Terror in Mumbai, the collapse of Seattle banking and an update on the new Obama cabinet.
Links Mentioned: A timeline of the Mumbai carnage … SAM and WaMu … some early warning signs of trouble at the Seattle bank … Obama’s new Labor secretary?




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