"At first, I picked an e-bike because I couldn't stand the sickening smell of gas from my scooter." says Zhang Dengming.

“起初，我选用了一辆电动自行车是因为我无法忍受小型摩托车那令人作呕的汽油味。”张登明说。

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'the mass and velocity of the expelled gas,' he told me in an E-mail that has forever endeared him to me,.

‘所放屁的质量和速度，’在那封极其讨我欢心的邮件中，他写道，‘与人体质量相比相当之小。’

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Our days are packed with work, chores, obligations, dirty dishes, laundry, phone calls, text messages, the Internet, e-mails, high gas prices, low stock prices and more to do than we want to.

我们的日常生活充斥着工作，家务，义务，需要清洗的碗筷，脏了的衣服，还有来电，短信，因特网，电子邮件，高昂的燃气费用，走低的股市以及很多我们不得不做的事情。

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It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

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The developments are reportedly right in line with the US government's Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Initiative, and we're sure officials are mighty proud of the E-Flare, which provides optical and acoustic warnings coupled with a force-feedback gas pedal, and E-Horn, which accepts incoming warning signals from emergency vehicles and alerts the driver via (presumably distracting) in-cabin lights and sounds.

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Plus, many coal utilities are actively switching to natural gas, so e-vehicles are essentially getting cleaner.

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