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61 [lbo-talk] Motive in UAW threats unclear -- rank: 166

Motive in UAW threats unclear Union pushing GM for rich Axle deal, some say; leaders cite other issues. Sharon Terlep / The Detroit News Monday, April 28, 2008 When the United Auto Workers launched a national strike last year against General Motors Corp., the reasons were obvious. The automaker was demanding unprecedented ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Apr 28 22:28:45 PDT 2008

62 [lbo-talk] Reps take lead on ethanol freeze -- rank: 262

... Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100% >> ethanol uses enough corn to feed ... May/June 2007 > > > Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires > over 450 pounds of corn -- which ...

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Author:	Robert Wrubel
Date:	Sun Apr 27 06:24:07 PDT 2008

63 [lbo-talk] Reps take lead on ethanol freeze -- rank: 262

... Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100% >> ethanol uses enough corn to feed ... May/June 2007 > > > Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires > over 450 pounds of corn -- which ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 26 17:42:32 PDT 2008

64 [lbo-talk] Reps take lead on ethanol freeze -- rank: 166

... Doug Henwood wrote: > [from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100% > ethanol uses enough corn to feed ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sat Apr 26 17:18:34 PDT 2008

65 [lbo-talk] Reps take lead on ethanol freeze -- rank: 166

[from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100% ethanol uses enough corn to feed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 26 10:41:11 PDT 2008

66 [lbo-talk] McCain reads lbo-talk? -- rank: 166

... is hard to pass and easy to game. The entire SUV plague is some sense literally a truck driven through a ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 15 19:23:19 PDT 2008

67 [lbo-talk] McCain reads lbo-talk? -- rank: 166

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> if I were the one being asked: gasoline taxes would go tomorrow. Jordan, I loved your stuff in the congestion price debate. I thought you were at top form and that in the nobody laid a glove on you, although there might have ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 15 13:48:23 PDT 2008

68 [lbo-talk] Chalabi's got game -- rank: 166

[h/t to Juan Cole] >From a blog entry by ace Iraq McClatchy reporter Hannah Allam: http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/cairo/2008/04/sadr-city-griev.html <key excerpt> Believe what you will about Chalabi being a has-been (or worse); precious few other Iraqi politicians can sail into Sadr ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 15 05:59:30 PDT 2008

69 [lbo-talk] NYblocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 166

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > [WS:] That is rather simple. If they did not like > their cars, they would be demanding alternatives. > AFAIK the opposite is true, most people love cars and > driving, have negative feelings toward public transit, > and do not mind sitting in traffic, as per the > following conversation overheard in ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:56:07 PDT 2008

70 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 166

On Apr 7, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Fine and good. So why penalize it only in the city's wealthiest > neighborhoods - and more specifically, by "outsiders" in those > neighborhoods? Both you and Doug seem to be going out of your ways to > duck this most obvious of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 05:42:40 PDT 2008

71 [lbo-talk] Earth Hour. Because the World Isn't Worth a Whole Day. -- rank: 166

>From Peter Watts, author of Blindsight and the Rifters trilogy http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm (imho, the best sci-fi writer currently out there). http://rifters.com/real/2008/03/earth-hour-because-world-isnt-worth.html#lin ks Earth Hour. Because the World Isn't Worth a ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Apr 2 03:47:26 PDT 2008

72 [lbo-talk] Where are the pragmatists? -- rank: 166

... the freedom of spending two hours a day in my SUV stuck in traffic. [3] The way the whole thing is ...

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Author:	Peter Hart Ward
Date:	Tue Apr 1 22:21:59 PDT 2008

73 [lbo-talk] GM to idle 6 plants, Axle strike impact widens -- rank: 166

GM to idle 6 plants, Axle strike impact widens By Kevin Krolicki Reuters March 3, 2008 Detroit - General Motors Corp said on Monday two more assembly plants were running out of parts and would have to be idled as the impact from a week-long strike against supplier American Axle & Manufacturing ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Mar 3 22:31:20 PST 2008

74 [lbo-talk] ouch -- rank: 166

... Civics used to get better than that. The whole hybrid SUV thing is just an extension of US car design since ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Mon Feb 18 04:55:05 PST 2008

75 [lbo-talk] ouch -- rank: 166

... pretty sure Ford built an entire campaign for their hybrid SUV around this 'phenomenon.' Now playing: The Mae Shi -- 'Hillyh' Cheers ...

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Author:	J T. Ramsay
Date:	Mon Feb 18 03:04:46 PST 2008