We noted earlier a study from the Harvard Medical School that calculated that for every 10% increase in gas prices there was a 2.3% decline in auto deaths.

Now a new report from Michael Sivak of the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan finds an even more dramatic fall. Associated Press reports that:

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Scientists discover a vegetarian spider.

Green Home Huddler interviews trash enthusiast Tom Szaky, the CEO of TerraCycle.

Starting later this year, Advanced Mechanical Products (AMP), a company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, will take your pre-existing or newly purchased Saturn Sky and convert it to an electric car.
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Not far from where I am writing this, three kids on vacation were killed recently when one of them flew his dad’s Audi off the road, shearing trees 40’ up and ending upside down in the lake, after collectively downing 31 drinks. Dad, quite logically, tells the press that “his son would still be alive if he hadn’t been drinking or speeding that night.”

Not far from where I am writing this, three kids on vacation were killed recently when one of them flew his dad’s Audi off the road, shearing trees 40’ up and ending upside down in the lake, after collectively downing 31 drinks. Dad, quite logically, tells the press that “his son would still be alive if he hadn’t been drinking or speeding that night.”

Finally crunching the numbers after the three-month lease of a lifetime with GM's Chevy Equinox, PM's Citizen Fuel Cell reports the good news on mileage (between 33 and 55 mi/kg of hydrogen, with an average of 41) and the bad (squeezing out the last "drop" of hydrogen, with tough MPG equivalent measurements).
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