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	<title>The Capricious Commuter &#187; fuel</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>More corn in your gas tank: more controversy over ethanol</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/01/21/more-corn-in-your-gas-tank-more-controversy-over-ethanol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have more corn power in your gas tank soon. The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is approving use of gasoline with up to  15 percent ethanol in car and light truck models from 2001 to 2006. In October, the agency approved the 15 percent ethanol gasoline  - up from 10 percent - for newer models. Congress sees ethanol as a [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=768</guid>
		<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>Obama provides recipe for pothole relief</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/02/20/obama-provides-recipe-for-pothole-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/02/20/obama-provides-recipe-for-pothole-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people who live on bumpy Charles Hill Road in Orinda have something to cheer about because of President Barack Obama&#8217;s economic stimulus package. Orinda - which ranks lowest among Bay Area cities for local road conditions - plans to spend some of its job stimulus money to fix the narrow, winding road where drivers regularly steer around potholes and big cracks. The condition of Charles [...]]]></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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		<title>happy trails</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/09/happy-trails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/09/happy-trails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about doing a blog is that it can travel with you wherever you might end up. I have a pen-pal, if I may use an anachronism, who ran an airport security consulting business in the Midwest and previously worked as a manager at both SFO and OAK airports. He did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>closing the record on high-speed rail</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/08/closing-the-record-on-high-speed-rail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/08/closing-the-record-on-high-speed-rail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may be wondering why I went to the California High-Speed Rail Authority board&#8217;s final hearing on its environmental impact documents and didn&#8217;t write a story. There will be a story, but only when the board votes to approve the final EIR-EIS tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Of course, if they vote it down there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the battle for Proposition 1 begins</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/07/the-battle-for-proposition-1-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/07/the-battle-for-proposition-1-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;m planning to cover what is likely to be the last public hearing on the environmental impact documents for the California High-Speed Rail enterprise, or at least the part that connects the San Joaquin Valley &#8220;spine&#8221; to its Peninsula extremity. It should be, but I&#8217;ll be careful about saying this because of past history, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>there&#8217;s no such thing as free parking</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/03/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-parking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/07/03/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-parking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is very little that is free in this world, and that is especially true of parking. Somebody had to build the structure, somebody had to pay off the loan and somebody has to pay to clean and police the place as long as it’s in use. A new 1,547-space parking garage opened in Pleasant [...]]]></description>
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