A problem for a long time on the roadways, aggressive driving seems to be getting worse as time goes on. That is why your Maryland Toyota dealer

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May 14, 2015

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At the Lamar Buffalo Ranch field campus in Yellowstone National Park, an innovative distributed energy system that combines solar power generation with re-used Camry Hybrid battery packs is now online. The result: reliable, sustainable, zero emission power to the ranger station and education center for the first time since it was founded in 1907.

Announced in June 2014, the partnership among Toyota, Indy Power Systems, Sharp USA SolarWorld, Patriot Solar, National Park Service and Yellowstone Park Foundation is an innovative effort to extend the useful life of hybrid vehicle batteries while providing sustainable power generation for one of the most remote, pristine areas in the United States.

Solar panels generate the renewable electricity stored within the 208 used Camry Hybrid nickel-metal hydride battery packs, recovered from Toyota dealers across the United States.
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A tire blowout, or rapid loss of tire pressure, could cause you to lose control and damage your vehicle and even endanger you and your family. There are certain things you need to do or not do if you

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Illinois is already seeing a decrease in crashes which are alcohol-related due to higher alcohol taxes, according to a new study. Taxes implemented country-wide which are similar to this could prevent thousands of car crash deaths each year. Here at your Arlington area Toyota, we want you to be safe on the road and believe you should know about this tax which could keep you and your loved ones much safer on the road.

When addressing dangerous drivers on the roads, policy makers should look to reversing the trend of letting inflation get rid of alcohol taxes. As seen in Illinois, traffic deaths related to alcohol dropped twenty-six percent after alcohol taxes were raised in 2009. This drop was highest in younger people, coming in at thirty-seven percent.

Fatal crashes that involved very drunk and alcohol-impaired drivers were lowered by twenty-two and twenty-five percent.

In recent decades, alcohol has become a lot more inexpensive because of the tax decreases. In 1950, for example, having ten drinks per day would be half of the average disposable income, but in 2011 this amounted to only three percent of the disposable income.

The study has confirmed that alcohol taxes do impact the entire range of drinking drivers, which includes ones that are extremely drunk drivers. Many economists conventionally have said that heavier drinkers aren

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