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[CYCLE-LICIOUS: Bicycle news and views] The factory will build up to 300,000 bikes per year to cut reliance on the second-hand bikes that have been imported from Japan and China. In this old news, women were banned from bike riding.Bicycles are used almost exclusively by men, and women find it difficult to ride bicycles even if they want to.
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[Peakoil.blogspot.com] Peak Oil News: The grudging acknowledgment and disclosure of some of this reality in recent months (which has included massive public relations campaign on the part of Chevron and others to gradually condition the public's reaction to Peak) does not make up for the denial, which has, and continues to, cost the world dearly in terms of wasted resources, wasted and lost lives (war), lost time, and lost opportunities for real solutions and worldwide preparation.
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