FOLLOWING A RECENT increase in crude oil prices to an eight-month high of $73.32 a barrel, national petrol prices have hit $1.24 a litre - the highest price in the same period.

Figures from the Australian Institute of Petroleum show that Tasmanian motorists have been hit the hardest, with average prices on the apple isle rising [...]

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Mercedes Benz is planning to eliminate all petrol and diesel-powered models within its model line up by 2015, replacing them all with a new range of alternative fuel cars.

The overall goal of Mercedes’s plan is to lower the costs involved in road transport, to reduce harmful emissions and to lessen our dependence on the rapidly [...]

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As the price of oil continues to rise the pain at the pump continues to worsen. The exorbitant price of diesel is having an expected knock-on affect with reports that ‘diesel rustling’ is becoming quite a popular pass time on country properties and forestry work sites.

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Environmental concerns spark all variety of debate and the hottest topic at the moment is Global Warming and CO2 emissions. Some of us believe that our requirement for energy is the root cause of increasing CO2 levels and others believe it would be happening anyway and is a process the earth has undergone before in [...]

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For the first time in history, oil has has breached the $US100 per barrel mark. At noon on January 2nd, crude oil prices briefly breached the $US100 a barrel mark at the New York Mercantile Exchange before dropping back a fraction.

It seems that rising demand is once again the culprit, with demand in the US [...]

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Don’t let the highest oil prices in history fool you into thinking that Australians are ending their love affair with big cars, because their not. A boom in the sales of SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicles) and a rebound in passenger car sales combined to deliver a record sales result for the local automotive industry in [...]

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Nissan’s heavy duty ute- the Patrol Cab Chassis - will be launched in October 2007, with a new look exterior design and Nissan’s popular ZD30 3.0-litre inter-cooled turbo diesel engine.

Fitment of the 3.0-litre diesel is in direct response to Australian buyers- particularly fleet customers - as the local market accounts for 80 per cent of [...]

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RUF are probably best known for their famous ‘CTR Yellow Bird’ from the late eighties. An extensively modified 1987 Carrera 3.2 formed the basis of the Yellowbird and you could tell because it still looked like the donor car…more or less.

Hmmm…those doors look familiar

It seems that the last twenty years has seen the game [...]

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