Let's be honest, it's no big secret that we're running out of dead dinosaurs to fuel our lives.

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"Not just the cars that aren't idling at traffic lights, but starting from a dead stop takes up more fuel also, so we are saving thousands of gallons of fuel per roundabout per year, " says the Republican mayor.

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Meanwhile, the feds' fuel-economy administrators are currently operating at a dead run trying to keep up with a host of new, highly digitized fuel-saving technologies, such as "Eco" throttle mapping and stop-start (the engine cuts out as the vehicle coasts or stops), which were practically invented to hack the EPA testing cycle.

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This is, perhaps, the only car in the world that really needs one -- given the fact that if you run out of fuel, you're dead in the water -- and it's nowhere to be found.

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The IAEA statement was released hours after Tepco temporarily shut down the cooling system in the second unit's spent fuel pool following the discovery of dead rodents near a transformer.

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The information ministry said many of the dead and injured were villagers trying to collect spilled fuel.

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