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WASHINGTON — Drivers of electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf may save as much as $1,200 a year compared with operating a new gasoline-powered compact car, scientists studying improved fuel economy found.

With gasoline at $3.50 a gallon, drivers who plug cars into electrical outlets would save $750 to $1,200 a year instead of buying gas for a new car that gets 27 miles (43 kilometers) a gallon when driving 11,000 miles a year, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a study released Monday.

“While in this early electric vehicle market these products have higher up-front costs, knowing how much one can save by using electricity instead of gasoline is an important factor for consumers,” the study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based group said.

The study, which also evaluated emissions benefits of electric vehicles based on owners’ locations, didn’t compare the total costs of ownership of electric and conventional vehicles.

Ford, maker of a Focus electric car already available for fleets, said last month the price will start at $39,995 before a $7 Microsoft Windows 7 Key,500 U.S. tax credit. Nissan’s Leaf starts at $35 Buy windows 7 key,200.

The plug-in Focus costs more than the $16,500 base price for the gasoline-powered version and will go on sale at dealers “in the coming few weeks,” Eddie Fernandez, a spokesman for Ford, said in an e-mail.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rates the fuel economy of the Focus SFE Windows 7 serial key, a gasoline-powered model, at 33 mpg for city and highway driving. The Environmental Protection Agency certified the electric Focus as offering the equivalent of 105 mpg.

Consumers need to make the decision about whether the higher upfront cost is worth the fuel savings, said Don Anair, the study’s author, on a conference call with reporters.

“The cost of the electric vehicles today vary pretty widely based on the models that are out there,” he said. “It’s important for consumers to understand what the potential savings are on fuel costs, and that can help them make a decision about buying a vehicle.”

A high-end Focus sells for about $27,000, or about $5,500 less than a plug-in version after the tax credit, Fernandez said.

Edmunds.com, an auto-researcher, predicts electric vehicles may reach only 7 percent of U.S. auto sales by 2017 even when consumers take rising gas prices into account.

The average U.S. gas price was $3.91 as of Sunday, according to U.S. motorist group AAA. That’s a 19 percent increase so far this year.

Passenger vehicles sold in the United States have been getting more fuel-efficient, with the average miles-per-gallon rating rising to 24.5 last month compared with 21.4 four years earlier, according to data compiled by Edmunds.com. Small cars as a percent of U.S. sales rose 3 percentage points to 23 percent, according to the data.

During that time, the average transaction price for an advanced-drive vehicle has risen 6.5 percent to $29,493 from $27,693, according to the Santa Monica, Calif.-based researcher.

On Wednesday’s performance night, the #Idols took on the ’60s and British-imported songs. Scroll down for all the fashion goodness!

ALSO, be sure to hit me up on on Twitter (@SoysFashion) with your style questions, or just to say hello!

HOLLIE CAVANAGH

(LEFT, 1st look for “River Deep Mountain High” by Ike and Tina Turner)
Tina Turner was known for her tight-fitting flashy dresses, and I wanted to incorporate Hollie’s spin on her love of sequins for her tribute to Tina. She told me that she would start from the audience, then walk to the stage. So I wanted to make sure her shoes were as high as she loves them to be, comfortable, and perfect for the sequins dress. One of the reasons why I gave Hollie a thick-heeled shoe was because they’re easier to maneuver on stage, and it still suited the retro look. Hollie wore an AllSaints dress and Sam Edelman shoes. Jewelry included Arden B. earrings, Swarovski bracelets, a JewelMint ring, and a Prb Studios, Private Collection ring.

(RIGHT, 2nd look for “Bleeding Love” by Leona Lewis)
I loved Hollie’s version of “Bleeding Love,” and when she sang the tempo of the song during fittings I knew in an instant that the Leon Max dress needed to be on Hollie for this week. I was looking online that morning and I had it sent with a rushed delivery to my house that same day. The dress fit her like a glove, and all I needed to add was the black chiffon train that cascaded down the lucid steps. I styled Hollie in a Max Studio dress with Kizmit-customized chiffon train and Bebe shoes. Jewelry included a Saint Vintage necklace, Swarovski earrings, and a Bijou Tresor ring.

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(LEFT, 1st look for “Fortunate Son” by CCR)
“Fortunate Son” sounded so rugged, so I wanted to bring in some metal elements to her outfit with the eyelets. The hang of her fringe vest, sequin dress, and her cowgirl boots really balanced out the Hollywood #glam and the country that never left the girl. I styled Skylar in a Parker dress topped with a vest from Haute Hippie, and Old Gringo boots with major #sparkle. Accessories included a Guess belt, Neon Dirt earrings and bracelet replica watches, and a Silpada ring.

(RIGHT, 2nd look for “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” by Dusty Springfield)
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(LEFT, 1st look for “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” by The Temptations)
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(RIGHT, 2nd look for “To Love Somebody” by the Bee Gees)
For the second look I wanted to bring back the sexy look that Joshua had with his leather jacket last week. He really wears the street style on stage like a nicely-tailored suit when he performs. Joshua wore an Unconditional shirt, Michel Berandi jacket, Zara jeans, and Aldo shoes. Accessories were an Express belt and socks, Swarovski necklace, London Manori bracelet, and Christian Tse watch.

PHILLIP PHILLIPS

(LEFT, 1st look for “The Letter” by The Box Tops)
We all know Phillip’s fashion style by now, and the biggest challenge every week is making sure I switch it up so it doesn’t look the same. Now his pants are fitting tighter and his shirts are more groomed; refining Phillip’s look is simply perfecting the fit. I wanted him in lighter colors for “The Letter” because it was a softer song that made me think of something earthy and rustic. I styled Phillip in a Marc by Marc Jacobs button-up shirt over a Kinetix shirt, G-Star RAW jeans replica watches, and To Boot New York by Adam Derrick shoes.

(RIGHT, 2nd look for “Time Of The Season” by The Zombies)
For this performance Phillip’s navy blue shirt was a nice contrast with the video screens, which made him pop on that big stage. And a note — I got his fitted jeans and tops from LIVE! On Sunset, my go-to spot to shop for the #Idols. For this more mellow song, he wore a Velvet Men shirt, Stitch’s pants, and shoes by The Frye Company.

JESSICA SANCHEZ

(LEFT, 1st look for “Proud Mary” by CCR)
I’m sure everyone is curious about my reaction to Jimmy Iovine’s comments regarding Jessica’s white dress, and I didn’t think they were that bad. Like Simon Cowell, if there isn’t anything bad to say, throw the stylist under the bus. It’s show business. It’s just too bad Jessica was the target, and the camera angle made the dress appear even shorter. Tina Turner was best known for her fringe dresses and short skirts… Production wanted her in a fringe dress, which was the last thing I wanted Jessica in. She is not Tina T, she is Jessica aka BB Chez (and maybe a bit of Beyonce like JLo said). It was our spin on a modern day tribute to Tina’s sexy song “Proud Mary” (which was a cover of CCR’s original). Jessica shimmied in a BCBGMAXAZRIA dress and Bebe shoes. Jewelry included a BCBG necklace and body chain, bracelet from Prb Studios, Private Collection, and earrings from Prb Studios Gypsy Global Chic.

(RIGHT, 2nd look for “You Are So Beautiful” by Joe Cocker)
You can’t take the sky-high shoes away from Jessica; it’s her signature style. Even before Jessica and I met, she was my height until her shoes came off… That’s exactly what happened in this song. After singing a song like “Proud Mary,” I was happy to hear that she was singing a sweet youthful song so I could showcase yet another style of Jessica Sanchez. I styled Jessica in a Blesse’d Are The Meek dress and shoes by Shiekh, both with Kizmit-customized Swarovski crystals. Jewelry included Prb Studios Gypsy Global Chic earrings and necklace, Deepa Gurnami bracelet, and Neon Dirt ring.

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today that there’s “growing concern” about a new North Korean mobile launcher for long range rockets that was first displayed by North Korea at a military parade this past weekend.

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“The history is they usually turn somewhere else to try to do  something provocative, and we hope they don’t do that.  We’re prepared  from the Defense Department’s point of view to deal with any  contingency, but there is growing concern about, you know, the mobile  capabilities that were on display on the parade recently in North  Korea.  ”

During a miltiary parade to honor the centennial of the birth of Kim il Sung, North Korea unveiled what appeared to a be a new long range missile.  The missile was mounted on a 16-wheel truck  that appeared to be a mobile launcher.  Because the vehicles can transport missiles for launch from different sites, they are harder to find and destroy.

Panetta said better intelligence is needed to determine exactly what those mobile capabilities and look at “what’s real and what’s not real here in order to determine  exactly what that threat represents. “  Panetta was referring to speculation that perhaps the new long range missile may have been just a mock-up intended to impress a foreign audience.   However Tattoo Machine Supply, Panetta said that “the bottom line is,  if they, in fact, have a mobile capability to be able to have ICBMs  deployed in that manner, that that increases the threat coming from  North Korea.”

There’s also been speculation that the mobile launcher the rocket was mounted on could only have come from China despite U. N. Security Council resolutions barring the export of that type of equipment.   Panetta spoke generally about China  providing some assistance though he did not specify exactly what it was.

“I’m sure there’s been some help coming from China.  I don’t know, you know, the exact extent of that.  I think we’d have  to deal with it in another context in terms of the sensitivity of that  information.    But, clearly, there’s been assistance along those lines. “

The White House today distanced itself from comments made by a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in which he suggested government officials should take lessons from ancient Romans and “crucify” people not complying with environmental laws.

In a 2010 video brought to light by frequent EPA foe Senator James Inhofe, R-Okla., EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz said that he gave the following analogy to his staff about his “philosophy of enforcement Machines Tattoo,” which he acknowledged being crude and perhaps inappropriate, but shared anyway:  ”It is kind of like how the Romans used to conquer villages in the Mediterranean – they’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere and they’d find the first five guys they saw, they’d crucify ‘em, and that little town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”

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White House press secretary Jay Carney today noted that Armendariz has “apologized and made clear that those comments are an inaccurate way to characterize the work EPA does.”

Carney went on to argue that the comments also do not reflect Obama administration policy Tattoo Guns For Sale, saying “since the president took office, oil and gas production has increased each year. Oil is currently at an eight-year high, and domestic natural gas production is higher than at any time in history. On federal lands and waters alone, oil production is up 13 percent since the president took office. And in 2010, for the first time in 13 years, imported oil accounted for less than 50 percent of the oil consumed in America.”

Inhofe was not convinced. “With an election on the horizon,” Inhofe said in a press release, “President Obama is pretending to be a friend of oil and natural gas, claiming he’s for an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach, but Administrator Armendariz’s comments reveal the true story: while President Obama has photo ops in front of pipelines in Oklahoma, his E.P.A. is working aggressively to ‘crucify’ oil and gas producers so they can end hydraulic fracturing, knowing full well that if you stop hydraulic fracturing, you kill domestic oil and gas production.”

Said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, “The EPA has systematically targeted Texas through burdensome regulatory overreach, putting politics ahead of facts and due process. Now we know they intend to crucify energy producers in our state. It is time for the Obama Administration to get its boot off the neck of Texas job creators and either lead, follow, or just get out of the way.”

In a blog post, the assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Cynthia Giles, writes that “It is deeply unfortunate that in a 2010 video an EPA official inaccurately suggests we are seeking to “make examples” out of certain companies in the oil and gas industry. We, and the official involved, regret the statement, for which he has apologized. It does not reflect our record over the last three years.”

Asked why Armendariz was still employed at the EPA despite the president’s past calls for softening crude rhetoric, Carney said “he’s apologized and…what he said is clearly not representative of either this president’s belief in the way that we should approach these matters or in the way that he has approached these matters, either from this office here in the White House or at the EPA.” Region VI covers Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and dozens of tribal nations.

-Jake Tapper

*I updated the headline for clarity.

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In British actor Steve Coogan’s latest film, The Trip(IFC Films), the British comedian plays a fictionalized version of himself. His “Steve Coogan” character has been commissioned by a U.K. newsaper to write about six restaurants in Northern England. When his relationship hits the skids right before he leaves and his girlfriend refuses to join him, he decides to take his friend—fellow comedian and impressionist, Rob Brydon, also playing a heightened version of himself—along for the journey.* The movie, which was originally a BBC series, was directed by Michael Winterbottom. He’s directed Coogan and Brydon before in the clever and complicated Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. This effort is an ambling portrait of the relationship between the two men. Between courses at fancy and bucolic boites, discussions of art Tattoo Supplies, love, and battling Michael Caine impressions ensue.

Slate spoke with Coogan about the difficulties of playing himself, his disdain for impressions, and his love of a talking dog video. (Disclosure: My husband works for IFC films.)

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Slate: You’re playing a character called Steve Coogan in this movie. How closely does the character hew to your actual self? Were there particular aspects of your personality you ended up emphasizing?

Steve Coogan: It’s a combination of all those things. There’s elements of me that are in there. But the elements that are me are exaggerated, given more of a caricature. And the same goes for Rob. The other side of it is there is some invention there, too. We fashioned it based loosely on who we are. We manufactured and overemphasized the differences between our two characters so that we could come up with that tension and acrimony.

Slate: What sort of traits do you think that you overplayed to play up that tension between the two of you?

Coogan: I come up as slightly too precious and pretentious, and though there’s some truth to that, I’m not as po-faced and neurotic and anxious as I come across in the film. I’m a bit more laid back and don’t take myself quite so seriously. So I exaggerated that.

Slate: The conversations between the two of you flowed so naturally in the movie—how much of it was improvised and how much of it was worked out before you were there?

Coogan: Well half-and-half, really. I manufactured with Rob—we’d have conversations ourselves in reality, and then say, well that would be a good conversation to have, let’s have that, and you can emphasize this, and I’ll interrupt you and say this. We’d sort of figure it out before we’d do it. But some of the conversations happened completely naturally, and once they did, then we’d have to shoot the scene from other angles, and we’d have to have the conversation again, and try to cover the same ground. But we were always shooting with two cameras so we could kind of say whatever we liked in a given moment.

Slate: The impressions the two of you did stuck out as the most lighthearted and fun parts of the movie. How did you develop the skill of impersonating people and is there someone you particularly enjoy impersonating the most, besides Michael Caine?

Coogan: The thing is, when I started out in the business 20 years ago, that’s how I started doing stand-up comedy and doing impersonations. But I always hated it, and hated doing it, really. And so there’s truth in that when Rob wants to do them and I say that I think it’s pathetic.

Slate: Why do you think it’s pathetic?

Coogan: I don’t quite think it’s as bad as I make out. I think it’s trivial, and when you sort of want to be taken seriously or show that you have substance to your comedy and that you’re creative Tattoo Supplies, then doing voices like that is just like a party trick, nothing more than that. I find impressionists slightly annoying, really. I mean they’re sort of fascinating but I don’t find them particularly funny, even though I can do it. So we made a virtue of that in The Trip, by having Rob, who’s very comfortable doing them, dragging me into doing them, so there is a part of me that’s competitive. Do I have a particularly favorite one I do? I like doing unusual ones, like Martin Sheen, people like that, ones that aren’t immediately obvious.

It’s something I left behind a long time ago, and tried to get away from, so I’ve got a difficult relationship with impersonations. 

Slate: This is your third collaboration with director Michael Winterbottom (after 24 Hour Party People, and Tristram Shandy). What’s your working relationship like with him, and what makes you keep coming back to him as a director?

Coogan: He always does something bold and different. He’s not lazy. He’s not interested in repeating himself. He likes to take a risk creatively, and I suppose I’ve got a very good relationship with him. He takes me slightly outside my comfort zone, which I strangely like. I like sort of discomfort.

Slate:  This is the second time you’re playing yourself in a Winterbottom movie—in Tristram Shandy, you played yourself playing Tristram. How is it to keep playing versions of yourself in these movies? Do you have different “Steve Coogans” that you’re putting forth as the role requires? It is a very strange feeling to be playing a fictionalized version of yourself?

Coogan: It is a strange feeling. But it’s also quite liberating too. Because we’re fictionalizing it by having actors play my parents and Rob’s wife and my girlfriend are all actors, all the people in it are actors, it gives you license to invent things. But there’s a kernel of truth in some of the things that we do. It’s strange and often it’s uneasy really, but most of the time it is quite liberating. My concern doing it is that it comes across as self-indulgent. It has to have some meaning besides navel-gazing, or else it’s dull for people, boring.

Slate:  A few years ago in an interview, you said, “The default response these days is to curl your lip up at everything whereas the radical choice is to say something non-cynical. Doing something with genuine sentiment is the most avant-garde thing you can do at the moment.” Do you feel that playing these versions of yourself is something genuine, and that you feel really shows something to the audience that’s earnest?

Coogan: I like to think it’s got—that’s the pathos in it. It’s not just satirical but it has light and shade and it has funny moments and moments of contemplation. It ticks that box. Michael does have—he makes genuine movies that he genuinely believes in, irrespective of how commercial they might be. He tries to do something different and I think there is a lot of arch, clever cynicism, which can be entertaining, but I crave something more, so, yeah, I like to think it does.

Slate:  Back to the realism of The Trip—Are you a foodie? Is writing about food something you’d want to do? How did that conceit arise?

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Let’s go ahead and get it out there: General Motors doesn’t have a plan for Saab, Saturn Buy Bandage dresses, or HUMMER – it has a bunch of hopes, ideas and proposals. The best that GM can do with Saab is try to extricate the brand from its entangled web, which might make it more attractive to a buyer. That includes moving 9-3 and 9-5 production to Sweden and being “engaged with the Swedish government” on a plan for Saab’s future. But GM has admitted that “Saab is not a U.S. strategy,” and the code behind that statement is probably, “We get rid of or kill it.”

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