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The Bush administration has announced that an eight-year-old, $2 billion federal program to create high-mileage gas vehicles was being scrapped and a new program -- focusing on hydrogen fuel-cells -- was being created. According to Jack Doyle, author of Taken for A Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the Politics of Pollution [6], this new fuel-efficiency initiative is more PR than progress.
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[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/environment
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government
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[6] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1568581475/thecenterformediA/
[7] http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm?ID=4959