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Pickup truck surge is powering strong May auto sales
May is turning out to be another good month for car sales, according to auto research firms J.D. Power and Associates and TrueCar.com. Both TrueCar and J.D. Power forecast that May auto sales will top 1.4 million vehicles, about an 8% increase from...
Tags: Vehicles, Pickup Trucks, Services and Shopping, Media Industry, Automotive Equipment
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Key IRS official refuses to testify
WASHINGTON — In a contentious climax Wednesday to a series of congressional hearings, Lois Lerner, a key IRS manager, invoked her right to not testify about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, igniting howls from Republicans and...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Witnesses
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Tesla repays $465 million federal loan ahead of schedule
San Jose Mercury NewsIn a huge boost for the Obama administration and clean-energy firms, electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc. announced Wednesday that it is paying back its $465 million government loan in full and nine years early. The Department of Energy oversees...Tags: Energy Saving, U.S. Congress, Elon Musk, National Government, Tesla Motors, Inc.
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Tesla Motors pays off Department of Energy advanced technology loan
Upstart electric car maker Tesla Motors on Wednesday paid off a Department Energy loan that had become a political hot potato. Tesla owed the federal government $451.8 million on a loan that was part of a special program to develop alternative fuel...
Tags: Alternative Energy, Passenger Cars, Ernest J. Moniz, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Hybrid Vehicles
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There Are Plenty of Scandals, Just Not These Ones
There’s a familiar template for the “scandals” that have so far “plagued” the Obama administration, in that they are all, for the most part, total bullshit and/or unfortunate events in the vast federal bureaucracy that have...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Political Fundraising, Taxation, U.S. Congress, Christopher Stevens
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As Tesla taps capital markets for cash, share price could top $100
Tesla Motors shares are trading at about $90 and could easily top $100, buoyed by its ability to tap capital markets for about $1 billion through its announced sale of stock and convertible notes. It is an impressive performance that will help the...
Tags: Passenger Cars, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Hybrid Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Media Industry
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Huge parcel in Fremont slated for development
The Contra Costa TimesA realty firm has bought a big chunk of vacant land in Fremont that is expected to become a key piece of the East Bay city's economic mosaic with office buildings, research and manufacturing facilities, and retail complexes. Newport Beach-based Integral...Tags: Kohl's, Nordstrom, Walnuts, Tesla, Target
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Tesla to raise $830 million from investors, repay U.S. debt
Fresh off its first profitable quarter, Tesla Motors Inc. plans to raise about $830 million in a stock and debt offering that will enable the electric car maker to pay off its $465 million federal loan. Founder Elon Musk, who owns 33 million shares,...
Tags: Human Rights, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Hybrid Vehicles, Gartner Incorporated
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Making sense of scandals
The Obama administration's first term was remarkably free of scandals. The second term is making up for lost time. Some of the President Barack Obama's harshest critics have even begun comparing him to President Richard Nixon, a byword for corruption,...
Tags: Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Kathleen Sebelius, Karl Rove, Richard Nixon
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OPINION: Obama's opponents do a lot of crying wolf
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe problem with scandals is that those who feel scandalized the most often hated the alleged scandal perpetrators before the gleeful finger-pointing and outraged clucking began. That leaves the rest of us with mixed emotions. We want to be outraged --...Tags: Alternative Energy, White House, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Why are conservatives skeptical of environmental claims? Solyndra and Fisker
Peter Jensen's editorial on conservatives' attitude toward environmental protection is misleading ("Don't save the planet," May 4). The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stressed the importance of the marketing...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Cleanup, Energy Saving
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