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LiveDeal.com Shares Top 10 Tips for Selling Used Cars in Today's Buyer's Market (The Auto Channel)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16 -- Employee discount pricing by the Big Three automakers and new deeper dealer discounts being piled on this fall, have led to a glut of used cars on the market, creating one of the best buyer's markets for used car shoppers in years.

Cars took a terrible beating (The Biloxi Sun Herald)
JACKSON - Most of the damage-assessment focus after Katrina has been, understandably, on South Mississippi homes and businesses, but insurance officials reminded lawmakers this week that tens of thousands of automobiles were destroyed or damaged, and dealing with them could be a problem.

Japan's August crude steel output down for 2nd straight monthly fall (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ Japan's crude steel output in August slipped 1.7 percent from a year before to 9.23 million tons for the second consecutive monthly decline, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said Friday.

Toyota invests $1 million at SRS (The State)
AIKEN In a boost to South Carolina s growing automotive industrial cluster, Toyota Motor Corp. has partnered with Savannah River National Laboratory to develop a lighter-weight and cost-effective hydrogen fuel storage system for future hydrogen-powered automobiles.Todd Wright, Savannah River National Laboratory s director, said the Toyota investment of about $1 million is a valuable endorsement

Dead man makes for juicy scandal in Brazil (Chicago Tribune via Yahoo! News)
The evidence linking Jonas de Pinho to the political corruption scandal riveting Brazil was solid. But then, so was the man's alibi.

U.S. Economy: Non-Auto Sales, Manufacturing Rise (Update3) Listen (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. consumers kept spending on goods other than automobiles, and factories kept humming last month, evidence the economy was able to withstand record fuel costs prior to Hurricane Katrina.

Toyota invests $1 million at SRS (The State)
AIKEN In a boost to South Carolina s growing automotive industrial cluster, Toyota Motor Corp. has partnered with Savannah River National Laboratory to develop a lighter-weight and cost-effective hydrogen fuel storage system for future hydrogen-powered automobiles.

True "Freedom to Farm" solution to farming crises (The Illinois Leader)
I will not argue with Joyce Morrison when she claims that some farmers are hurting financially, but her suggestion that we may run out of food or become totally reliant on foreign farmers for our food is patently ridiculous [ MORRISON: It's a long row to hoe (September 14). Prices are low in America because our production is high. Decades of farm subsidies and other programs to help inefficient