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	<title>The Capricious Commuter &#187; Environment</title>
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	<description>Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road</description>
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		<title>Should employers have to offer help for workers&#8217; commute costs for transit, cycling, and carpools?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/07/21/should-employers-have-to-subsidize-their-workers-commutes-by-transit-bike-or-carpool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill sent to the governor aims to reduce greenhouse gases and auto congestion by giving regional governments the authority to require employers to offer subsidies to workers who commute by bus, rail, bicycle, carpool and other low-emission means. Bay Area public transit and regional governments backed the bill, but it was opposed by the California Chamber of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concord hosts regional workshop on cutting greenhouse gases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A regional planning effort to rein in greenhouse gases produced in the Bay Area makes a stop in Concord from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday with a public workshop at the Concord Senior Center, 2727 Parkside Circle. Come if you want to discuss a state-mandated effort at marrying transportation and land use planning to cut pollution that warms the earth.   Click here for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BART to give out free train tickets at festival Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/04/20/bart-to-give-out-free-train-tickets-at-festival-thursday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BART is rewarding 5,000 people with free tickets &#8211; each good for $6 worth of  fares &#8211; at an environmental fair in San Francisco from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday to promote public transit. The BART Blue Sky festival will be held at Justin Herman Plaza near the Embarcadero station. Attendees also can enter a drawing for two free bicycles, and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Daylight Saving drive us down the wrong road?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/03/14/does-daylight-saving-drive-us-down-the-wrong-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all got up an hour earlier today because Daylight Savings Time saves energy. Right? Not everyone agrees. A Tuft&#8217;s University teacher says we don&#8217;t really save energy in part we make extra driving trips to stores, golf courses and other recreational outings  during that extra hour of sunlight.  Daylight Savings benefits stores and golf courses, but it&#8217;s no big national energy saver, Michael Downing told KGO Radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the toll on bridge drivers be too big a toll?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/14/will-the-toll-on-bridge-drivers-be-too-big-a-toll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who take car pools across seven Bay Area bridges may be in for an unpleasant change next year: the end of free rides for car pools during rush-hour periods. And on the Bay Bridge, regular drivers not in car pools also may in for a shock: higher tolls during peak commute periods than at other times. Proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bike commute on the back roads, deer and all</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/05/14/a-bike-commute-on-the-back-roads-deer-and-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 15:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highlight of my bike to work this week was encountering a mother deer and her two fawns crossing Danville Boulevard in front of me near Singing Hill Road in Alamo. Here was this deer ambling across the well-traveled old highway during the morning commute. She seemed to know that either cars down the road would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a dinosaur evolve before it&#8217;s too late?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/20/can-a-dinosaur-evolve-before-its-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/20/can-a-dinosaur-evolve-before-its-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t nominate the boss of a major American auto manufacturer as the likeliest person to suggest the nation consider a huge increase in the federal gas tax. But General Motors CEO Rich Wagoner told reporters earlier this week that a big gas hike might be good for America as an incentive for consumers to save energy by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Rock &amp; Roll &#8211; But, Increasingly, We Don&#8217;t Drive</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/19/americans-rock-roll-but-increasingly-we-dont-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/19/americans-rock-roll-but-increasingly-we-dont-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>queen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel on all U.S. roads and streets dropped 3.1 percent, or 7 billion vehicle miles for January 2009 as compared with January 2008. Woo Hoo! Traffic dropped the most in the north central region of the country, the area from Ohio to the Dakotas, going down 6 percent. Bad news for the West: We were the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odometer debate: saving earth or saving privacy?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/17/odometer-debate-saving-earth-or-saving-privacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/17/odometer-debate-saving-earth-or-saving-privacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us want to protect our personal privacy and protect the earth from global warming. Can we do both? An East Bay legislator said she is trying to avoid conflicts between the two goals in her bill that would require California motorists to report their odometer readings during their annual motor vehicle registration. But concerns over privacy are spurring some people to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jet Fuel Made From &#8230; Jatropha?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/30/jet-fuel-made-from-jatropha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/30/jet-fuel-made-from-jatropha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>queen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we hover on the cusp of the New Year, here&#8217;s a story that might inspire us to consider alternative fuels: Air New Zealand today tested a passenger jet powered partially with oil from a plum-sized fruit known as jatropha, Scientific American reported. It was the the world&#8217;s second commercial flight of a jet on [...]]]></description>
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