Posted AT 8:55 PM EST on 06/06/08
Green dreams
TORONTO AND WASHINGTON — Mark LaNeve, chief salesman for General Motors Corp., strode to the microphone in Detroit in January and pointed to his company's newest green vehicle. It was, of all things, a Hummer, one powered by biofuels, a feature that would be available on all Hummer models by 2010.
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