Scores for the latter, on the other hand, began to sink, reaching a low point of 23.1 on March 21.

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The reality is that, up to this point, renewable energy has been a massive money sink.

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Toyota, whose market share peaked at 17 percent in 2009, as Detroit was on its knees, saw its portion of the market sink as low as 10 percent at one point last year.

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That point past a year and a half ago, raising the question of why it took so long to sink in?

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