E-M:/ Cost of Doing Business: BMW pays record CAFE penalties

WASHINGTON -- BMW's rise in the United States has come with a cost: record fines for violating U.S. fuel economy standards.

BMW North America Inc. paid more than $42 million in fines during the government's 2003 fiscal year. That year ran from Oct. 1, 2002, to Sept. 30, 2003.

Full story in today’s Autoweek @:

http://www.autoweek.com/news.cms?newsId=100853

--TOM (Zoom-Zoom……lovin’ my little Miata….)

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Thomas K. Rohrer, Director

Environmental Studies Program

318 Brooks Hall

Central Michigan University

Mt. Pleasant MI 48859

U. S. A.

Ph. (989) 774-4409

email = tom.rohrer@cmich.edu

CMU Environmental Studies Program information is available at:

http://www.cst.cmich.edu/units/env/

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-- Margaret Meade

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