GM CEO Akerson Proposes New Gas Tax

Gas prices have finally taken a pause from climbing and have even inched downward over the last few weeks. Most Americans think that's good news. It means that less of the average paycheck will go toward gas each week. For GM CEO Dan Akerson, however, it seems that gas prices are too low.
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Auto Tech in Silicon Valley

Not so long ago, all a car maker really needed to know was engines. Even brakes were an afterthought. All you had to do was transfer the power from the engine to the wheels and you were pretty much good to go. Over the last hundred years, however, automotive technology has gotten just a little more complicated
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Used Car Shortage Makes New Cars the Better Deal

A large percentage of the used cars on the market come from returned leases, with the largest part of those being three year leases. CNN Money cites a poll by R.R. Polk and Company that shows why we may see used car prices shifting into overdrive in the next year or two.  Between June and November of 2008 automobile leases fell by 58% across the board... Since that's just exactly three years ago, that's the period that would be feeding returned lease cars into the used car market right now.
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A Hybrid by any Other Name

With gas prices increasingly becoming a popular topic of discussion across America, it's no wonder that better gas mileage is a hot topic in Detroit. Even so, says a study commissioned by Johnson Controls, a maker of high-tech batteries used in hybrid vehicles, the pain at the pump isn't enough yet to start moving mainstream consumers toward hybrid vehicles. That, says the report, won't happen until the price per gallon is somewhere between $4 -$5. Despite the results of that survey, consumers definitely want better gas mileage even if they aren't ready to make the leap to a full-fledged hybrid vehicle.

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Buying American? Are You Sure?

It's no secret that most automobiles these days have parts made in a wide variety of countries regardless of where the car itself is finally assembled. The Big Three U.S. carmakers were born and raised right here in the good old U.S. of A., but are they still the most American of the major automakers?
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