Cheap gasoline summons the dread SUV from its jumbo grave

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By Heather SmithDec 2, 2014, 8:33 am33 pts
Environmentally, oil prices are a wash, no matter what. If oil prices rise, people use less of the stuff, but there’s more financial incentive to dig it up. If oil prices fall, as OPEC has been helping them do lately, fracking operations dry up. (The profit margins are so thin that even being exempt from the…

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