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Phones for VW Lawyer, Emissions Tester Were Lost or Wiped Clean

September 1, 2017 By Ryan Beene and Margaret Cronin Fisk, Bloomberg News Volkswagen AG’s top U.S. lawyer and the leader of its emissions-testing lab in California are among the employees whose mobile devices were either lost or erased as the company’s diesel cheating scandal emerged, according to court records made public on Thursday. David Geanacopoulos, VW Group of America’s senior vice president for public affairs and public policy, reported he lost his phone while en route to Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 1, 2015, according to the records. He was VW of America’s general counsel at the time. The documents also show that the company cell phones of Anna Schneider, VW’s senior vice president of industry and government relations, and Matthias Barke, senior director of VW’s emissions test center in Oxnard, California, were “wiped” or erased of data in the months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced VW had rigged its vehicles to pass pollution tes...

Oil Barrel Organisation Price forecast at $110 per Barrel. Be prepared!

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  The Oil Barrel Organisation has predicted an increase to $110.00 per barrel of oil for the year entering 2012. Results from consumption figures from China and India along with USA indicate strong factors for the oil demands to increase considerably with a limited supply. Africa will find newer sources to self supply in another 5 to 7 years but in the meanwhile, their imports are also notebly increasing with African polulation and economic activities in relvant sectors as remarked by Nazir Jinnah, ceo of Oil Barrel Organisation at the oil consumption forecasting for the emerging African markets symposuim in Doha, Qatar on January 20th 2011. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) raised its global oil demand forecast to a growth of 1.23 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2011, for a total expected demand of 87.3 million bpd in 2011. That’s 50,000 barrels higher than it expected last month. Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is expecting even hig...

The New 2012 Mercedes Benz CLS

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Mercedes Benz has yet again developed an amazing design with the new CLS revised design. The technology and design combinations are really set out to show to the auto industry how to improvise new customer base increase. Drive one and you will be smitten.