Washington Post - Osama Elkhawad can tell you how much every piece of machinery cost in his small auto-repair center, located across from a McDonald’s and next door to a dry cleaner in Arlington. Numbers tend to stick in Elkhawad’s head: In his native Sudan, he was an

MSN MoneyCentral - There also could be a battle over higher auto fuel economy standards, something that Michigan Democrats such as incoming House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell might resist. More likely is a possible national standard mandating that

2006: Below are reports related to the aftermath of the Buncefield
Hemel Hempstead Gazette - One such business, Greenflow Auto Fuel Systems Ltd, moved from another property, let by Collier & Madge on the Bourne End estate, to a cheaper unit in Watford earlier this month.

Online Press Release
PRWeb - Vapor Systems Technology’s Upgraded Website is Loaded with Information on Gas-Saving, Super-Efficient Automotive Fuel Vaporizing Systems 400 hours of research at the US Patent Office website has paid off handsomely! 920 different auto fuel vaporizer

CPCL to pay 120 % dividend
News Today - CPCL has investment plans of about Rs 5000 crore on various projects including auto fuel quality upgradation and resid upgradation projects. In addition, CPCL is studying the feasibility of setting up a grassroot 15 MMTPA refinery cum

The Auto Chanel - (10/11/06 - Springfield, OH) - Todd Bowsher and the Jack Bowsher & Associates Motorsports Team have their Safe Auto Ford all set and ready to go for this weekends final race on the 2006 ARCA RE/MAX Series schedule. The new Iowa Speedway in Newton

Ford’s China partner back in black for Q3
Reuters - Changan Auto, Ford and Mazda are expanding their Chongqing plant to make 200,000 cars a year. They are also building a plant in Nanjing, three hours by road from Shanghai, which will have an initial capacity of 160,000 vehicles per year. ($1=7

WAVY News 10 - Hampton Fire investigators are still looking to pinpoint the cause of an overnight fire at an auto repair business that appears to have been accidental. Crews arrived at Raynor Auto Repair on North Back River Road a little after midnight to find

Buying or Selling a Home?
LEX 18 - For 2005, collection agencies rank No. 6 on the BBB’s list - with more complaints than banks, phone companies, credit card issuers and auto repair businesses. 1 The New York Times recently reported that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received 66

Myers Industries Plans to Buy ITML
MSN MoneyCentral - AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Myers Industries Inc., maker of polymer products and distributor of tools and other equipment for the tire, wheel and auto repair markets, said Thursday it will buy ITML Horticultural Products Inc. Terms of the deal were not made

WhoWon.com, NE - Dec 27, 2006… September 23, 2006. Smith also won the NAPA Auto Parts 100 on July 14, 2006 at the Motordrome (PA) Speedway. Overall, Smith collected …

City pocket may see progress
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - 9 hours ago… For almost three decades, the walls surrounding Ray's Used Auto Parts have sheltered hundreds of wrecked cars, rows of salvageable windshields, and piles of …

Gamespot News - All nondroid characters are able to assemble random piles of Legos into usable devices, something that originally only Jedi were capable of; many blaster-wielding characters will now auto-dodge incoming blaster fire; and most characters now have

People’s Daily Online, China - Dec 19, 2006… on the forefront of auto technology, so the tax leverage may promote the technology upgrade and industrial restructure of China's auto manufacture, an expert …

China will levy fuel tax when market conditions become appropriate, China’s Minister of Finance Jin Renqing said at the ongoing national working conference on finance.

Chinese benchmark stock index hit record high Thursday 
Chinese benchmark index on Thursday closed at 2,249.11 points, breaking the record in history that was created more than five years ago.

WASHINGTON — House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi’s plan to repeal tax breaks for oil companies in the first 100 hours of the new Congress could face roadblocks in the Senate.

Infrastructure status sought for oil exploration 
The petroleum ministry has sought infrastructure status to exploration and production (E&P) business, liquefied natural gas import and re-gasification projects as well as cross country pipelines for crude, gas and petroleum products.

Companies convert CO2 to auto fuel 
A U.S. utility company and a pollution recycling company have successfully converted power plant gas to usable vehicle fuel.

Inflation hits 18-month high at 5.45% 
NEW DELHI: With the headline inflation rate hitting an 18-month high of 5.45%, the government on Friday said it will take measures to ease the supply-side constraints to bring it down.

Fitch: Strong Credit Metrics to Persist in 2007 for N.A. Oil & Gas Companies 
CHICAGO—-Fitch Ratings’ overall view for the oil and gas industry remains positive even though commodity prices have retreated from record highs. Fitch currently maintains a Stable Outlook on each of the major industry segments despite the robust market conditions as a result of most companies already being at their target capital structures.

RIL`s retail fuel market share may slump 
Reliance Industries, whose share of the auto fuel market had climbed after it cut prices of petrol and diesel in October this year, could see it slump again with Wednesdays oil price cut by the government.

Weird Discoveries 
The December issue of Food Arts magazine reports a rather unusual use for the glut of wine in France and Australia. Some wineries are “selling their surplus to ethanol plants for conversion to auto fuel - in some cases right out of the bottle.”

How liposuction can lead to cleaner air 
Attention, please. We are accepting no more nominations for the Nobel Prize in Environmental Cosmetic Surgery. We have a winner. His name is Lauri Venoy, a Norwegian businessman living in Miami.

Boston Globe - solutions to a broader set of customers,” Jayson Pankin, Delphi’s new venture creation specialist, told the Detroit Free Press for a Tuesday story. The grant is expected to be announced this week. Troy-based Delphi, the nation’s largest auto parts

Gunshots fly outside teen Christmas party
Montgomery Advertiser - Smith said the incident started in front of Advance Auto Parts and a security guard at Front Street called police when one of the people involved entered the parking lot. Front Street opened in May after a long struggle to obtain a liquor license. Cook

Metro/State Briefs
Detroit News - Harbert interim chief financial officer, the bankrupt auto-parts supplier said Tuesday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Harbert, who replaces Keith R. Marchiando, is a partner at accounting services firm Tatum CFO Partners LLP, through

Boy Scouts recycling trees starts Saturday at 2 sites
Daily World - Napa Auto Parts parking lot, Montesano for East County residents. Phone numbers are 500-7683 for the Hoquiam site; 470-8941 for the Montesano site. Some of the trees will be used for bank stabilization and erosion control to improve fish habitat along

UPDATE 1-Hearing on Delphi investment postponed
Reuters - Dallas-based Highland proposed a $4.7 billion reorganization plan for Delphi, the biggest parts supplier to General Motors Corp. (GM.N: Quote , Profile , Research ), setting the stage for a fight for control of the auto parts supplier between its two

In wake of charges, auto yard loses license
Lowell Sun - CHELMSFORD — Less than a month after police arrested a local man in connection with stolen auto parts found on Sleeper Street, selectmen rejected the license renewal for North Chelmsford Auto Parts, effectively shutting down the 40-year-old business