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Check out this guy’s video of his electric-powered 1975 Beetle. His electric Volkswagen Bug raises a simple question. What’s the answer?
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According to Japan’s business news source, Nikkei, Toyota is planning a Prius with solar panels by Kyocera Corp. Toyota has not unveiled any design plans for the solar panels. The solar panels will power the air conditioning on the Prius. If the solar panels on the Prius are only used to power the car’s air conditioning, in my opinion, it would be like a kind of waste as the solar panels could be used to power the car instead improving gasoline fuel efficiency.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom’s oil minister said Sunday without citing any specific output increase.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, has been under intense pressure from the U.S. and other oil consumers to increase its crude output to help slow the soaring price of oil.
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Todays gas prices have finally reached to a national average of oer $4.00 USD per gallon. This is insane as most families will struggle with decisions on where to cut their costs to afford fuel for their vehicles.
Combine this with the national average trip to work is over 35 minutes, you could have a costly commute to work and home every day, not to mention any other places you’ve planned to go such as vacations, groccery stores or to watch your kids sporting events far away.