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Train Drain

…steel wheels rolling on steel rails. Railroads can carry a ton of cargo for 472 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel, making them at least three times more fuel efficient…

Housing Update

…up by people who don’t intend to live in them, an unusually high amount of investor activity that is adding fuel to the city’s efforts to revive itself – but…

Has America Lost its Drive?

…By the Way, improved fuel economy cannot account for more than a small fraction of this change. The big improvements in fuel economy happened during the 80’s, when fuel deliveries…

What the Oil money is doing

…warn that anyone caught spreading rumors about fuel-price increases will be “severely punished.” Yet it still subsidizes fuel. As a result, consumption this decade has skyrocketed at an 8.7 percent…