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A Life-Cycle Comparison of Alternative Automobile Fuels

Heather L. MacLean Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Lester B. Lave Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Rebecca Lankey AAAS Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
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Satish Joshi Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Pages 1769-1779 | Published online: 27 Dec 2011

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