reuters.com - 11/21/2008
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A clean-burning diesel sedan, Volkswagen AG's Jetta TDI, won the "Green Car of the Year" award at the Los Angeles auto show on Thursday, the first time a diesel-powered car has taken the industry's top environmental honor. "This signals that clean diesel has arrived," ...
treehugger.com - 11/20/2008
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Today, the Green Car Journal gave its 2009
Green Car of the Year award to the Volkswagen...
Jetta TDI at the Los Angeles Auto Show . The 2009 Jetta TDI is a quiet-running, diesel-powered car. It beat out hybrids and mini-cars to take the title. The ...
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2009 Green Car Of The Year: The Volkswagen Jetta TDI
greencar.com - 11/25/2008
reuters.com - 11/21/2008
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reuters.com —
Reuters: A clean-burning diesel sedan, Volkswagen AG's Jetta
TDI, won the "Green Car of the Year" award...
at the Los Angeles auto show on Thursday, the first time a diesel-powered car has taken the industry's top environmental honor. ...
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Volkswagen diesel car wins "Green Car of the Year"
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Volkswagen diesel car wins ''Green Car of the Year''
Peak Oil News —
... Diesel, a conventional combustion approach long favored by Europeans, has been making inroads into the U.S. market as a here-and-now option to make engines run more economically and pollute less. The use of diesel for passenger cars had long been stalled in the United States because of unacceptably high tailpipe emissions, but advanced technology has allowed so-called clean diesel vehicles to filter out more pollutants and for the first time meet smog pollution laws in all states. Reuters
DrumBeat: November 21, 2008
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... Kiev displeased with growth of Russian gas price for Ukraine
KIEV (Itar-Tass) -- Ukrainian Minister of Industrial Policy Vladimir Novitsky has described as political the statement, made by Gazprom President Alexei Miller, on the intention to bring the gas price for Ukraine to 400 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres in 2009. “There are no economic reasons for setting that price of gas delivered to Ukraine,” he told journalists on Friday.
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