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100 YEARS INDY 500 2009
Centennial INDY 500 Festival
As a gravel-and-tar track and hosted a smattering of small events before the promoters decided to focus on just one major event.
The track was then paved with 3.2 million bricks, urged by principal owner Carl G. Fisher after several deaths related to the unsteady racing surface.
The creation of a 500 mile (805 km) race allowed the track to rapidly acquire a privileged status for automobile races.
The first "500" was held at the Speedway on Memorial Day, May 30, 1911
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THE NAT GAS ACT Needs Your Help Now!
We are participating in an energy virtual march that starts today!
April 02-2009
Three members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill which will reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Reps. John Larson, D-Conn.; Dan Boren, D-Okla.; and John Sullivan, R-Okla.; have introduced legislation called the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2009. The shorthand is the NAT GAS Act.
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The NAT GAS Act will have a majority of the elements for natural gas vehicles (NGVs) contained in the Pickens Plan.
 It extends the tax credit for natural gas used as a transportation fuel.
 It provides a tax credit for 80 percent of the additional cost when purchasing a dedicated natural gas vehicle.
 It creates incentives for the major manufacturers to sell natural gas vehicles (which they already produce for overseas markets) in the United States.
 It requires that 50% of the fleet vehicles purchased by the federal government over the next five years must be fueled by natural gas.
In 2007, the federal government purchased 65,000 gasoline, diesel and E-85 vehicles.
In that same year, the federal government bought only 129 natural gas vehicles.
Over the next five years, the federal government will purchase approximately 325,000 cars and light-duty trucks.
If passed, this bill will require that instead of only 645 natural gas vehicles, the government will purchase 162,500.
This demand will help jump start domestic manufacturing capabilities, allowing NGVs to become more readily available to the consumer marketplace.
The NAT GAS Act introduced in the U.S. House is only the starting point.
There has to be a similar bill introduced in the U.S. Senate; followed by hearings and voting from the House and Senate floor before the bill goes to the president for signing.
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We're marching on.
Indy 500 is 100 Years Old
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