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The Chevy Volt of airplanes, the Volta Volare, is ready to fly
ExtremeTech
Some of the electricity-not-gasoline savings are nice but still dwarfed by the purchase price that is likely to be over $500000. Still, if the Volta Volare comes anywhere near the claimed 300-mile range, that's a pretty impressive feat from a plane ...

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CompareCards.com Posts a New Review of Walmart Credit Card Pros and Cons
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
While it is advantageous to those who buy gas at Walmart, maintaining a balance on the card can get expensive and quickly undermine all of the cardholder's gasoline savings. Walmart Money Card: The Walmart MoneyCard is a reloadable prepaid VISA or ...

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Infiniti M35 Hybrid
Monterey County Herald
But even with today's gasoline prices that top $3.90 a gallon, it would take M35 Hybrid drivers a while to recoup via gasoline savings the $6000 premium that the hybrid model costs over a non-hybrid M37. And there are other hybrids, even luxury hybrids ...

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Do hybrids really save you money on gas?
abc7news.com
Even at $5 a gallon, it takes a while for the gasoline savings to add up to all of the upfront costs. Edmunds says consumers should also consider tax breaks, driving habits and of course the pure please of driving green.

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Cruise your way to gasoline savings
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Even if you travel at roughly the same speed as before, cruise control will eliminate the small accelerations and decelerations that are inevitable for most drivers. I've calculated a gas savings of about 8 percent for my highway driving.

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Obama's $8000 in gas savings a year — oops, over a car's life
Washington Post (blog)
The proposed rule for the 2017-2025 standard suggests it will take about four years for the car owner to recoup the higher vehicle cost through gasoline savings. For perspective, one study calculates (page 24) that more than $4700 of the cost of a 2009 ...

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Times-Mail (subscription)

• Rising gas prices no concern for Chevy Volt owner
Times-Mail (subscription)
Even with the phenomenally low operating cost compared with a conventional gas-powered car, it will take years — and some say as much as 10 years — to offset the high initial price from gasoline savings. “I really haven't done the math,” Davis said.

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California air board tightens vehicle emissions standards for 2025
Sacramento Bee
The CFA estimated that the average monthly gasoline savings from owning a new clean car will be significantly greater than the increased monthly car payments. The CFA said a recent poll it conducted shows that 75 percent of consumers support higher ...

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Kids discover meaning of energy efficiency
Topeka Capital Journal
“I was interested in the gasoline savings of those cars,” he said. Matt Lehrman, a spokesman for the ElectroGo program, said several people stopped and asked questions about the energy-efficient vehicles. “They require a lot less maintenance,” he said. ...

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Financial fears advantage: Lesser Gas costs
Dice News
Economists concern that gasoline savings, while welcome, won't cause much problems to public if the nastiest financial panics approach to go by. Petrol costs have always diversified from state to state, but the space now is bigger than ever. ...

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Mustangs and Fords Magazine (blog)

fuel economy, oil
Mustangs and Fords Magazine (blog)
Assuming a conservative estimate of 12000 miles driven each year, the annual gasoline savings will be approximately 14 million gallons. Such an effect on fuel savings would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions, thereby positively impacting the ...

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ChargePoint Network Expands to Santa Cruz, Calif. as Electric Vehicle Charging ...
AUTO-MOBI.info (press release)
The ChargePoint Network expansion into Santa Cruz County brings EV drivers the easy-to-use unique services including real-time status and location of unoccupied charging stations, tracking and reporting greenhouse gas and gasoline savings, and charging ...

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