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Obama Urges Incentives For Alternative-Fuel Vehicles

by Scott Horsley, NPR
March 8, 2012

President Obama was in North Carolina Wednesday, dropping in on a factory that makes big-rig trucks. Some of those trucks are powered by natural gas, and Obama took the opportunity to propose new tax incentives for alternative-fuel vehicles.

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