... than half of that amount is used for motor gasoline, with the rest of it going toward distillate fuel oil, jet fuel and residual fuel among other things. Each barrel holds 42 gallons of oil, which makes about 20 gallons of gasoline, which means that Americans consume around 178 million gallons every single day. It's customary for the price of gas to increase in the warmer ... pay for gas. Just like anything else you buy, the money doesn't all end up in one pocket. There is a chain of groups that each contributes to the price of the product, and they all get their piece of the pie. Despi...

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... 6.4% increase of greenhouse gasses by 2099. One problem lies in the developing countries that make up just over half of the world's carbon emissions. According to the report, China is the leader in greenhouse gas production, having added 2 billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere in "07. India's emissions are also on the rise, and they are poised to overtake Russia, which is currently ranked third. ... Measured per-capita, however, the U.S. retains its status as the most prolific CO2 polluter, ... , including those in Washington whose vested interest in big oil has been ubiquitously and...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... actually lead to a member of OPEC no longer being able to underwrite their nations' operations. With so much uncertainty surrounding the price of petroleum products and the indices as defined by models showing a higher probability of rising prices than dropping ones (Zhang, Lohr, Escalante, Wetzstein, 2008), auto manufacturers are ... the demand for alternative fuel-based engines is growing as a result of a lack of trust in petroleum-based engine technologies and the price of the fuel itself. Simply put, the erratic and apparently uncontrollable price increases followed by precipitous ...

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... or are in danger of losing their homes, it seems that the bulk of Americans are more plagued by the promise of woe than the reality thereof. Internationally, the economic news for the travel industry is even better. 43 percent of international respondents to the same survey stated that they saw economic conditions as "terrible" and of those, only 15% have cancelled or delayed travel plans as ... beleaguered travel industry is set on surviving without a government bailout. While this is good news for the Airline industry, Passenger trains, gas stations, and buses, the same study also rev...

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... is not reliable enough to provide all your electric needs. Still, adding $10 to $30 thousand dollars to the price of building a home is cost prohibitive for most of us. If you know a little bit about electricity, are good at building simple structures, and can follow simple instructions, there are sites online that can teach you how to build a solar cell for less ... of batteries that end up in the landfills. So even if you can't power your whole home with solar, there are affordable ways to use solar power in your life. Every little bit helps. Just think of the power we would save if w...

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... small group discussion, a mother of three held back tears as she described the effects of the dollar's weakening buying power. She and her husband both work and have been steadily employed for the last twenty years. Three years ago, they felt financially secure. They could afford to eat out occasionally or shop at the mall. They bought into a timeshare in Florida. Now they"re struggling. A ... groceries this year is eating up discretionary spending, boston.com writer Robert Gavin says. Milk prices averaged a 26 percent increase, he reports, and egg prices jumped 40 percent. Even an ordi...

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... been strong everywhere. In Germany, Japan and Hong Kong, prices have been stagnant or falling and the hot spots are widely spread from Sydney to Stockholm. House prices have risen by 18% in the UK and in Australia by 17% over the year. Khatri (2003) analyzes real house price movements across 14 out of the 15 European Union (EU) nations over the five year period 1997-2002 in relation ... been a decline in unemployment rates across almost all countries except Greece. The largest falls are recorded in Ireland and Spain, the countries with the highest rises in house prices. A similar relati...

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... increase in depth is particularly noticeable during hurricanes as they crash into shores with an average category rating of 2 and 3. As if this wasn't enough of a threat oil industries, congress, and the white house now want to allow offshore drilling. Let's look at the Georges Bank area off Cape Cod Massachusetts. According to geologists there are approximately 57 million barrels of oil lying there ... already in a delicate state with only the haddock bouncing back from being over fished. Can the benefits of drilling for oil and natural gas possibly outweigh the risk of further damage ...

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... quotas to imported commodities from other countries. In the simulation, Suntize is dumping their watches to Rodamia which in turn affects Rodamia's own domestic production and price of watches. Because of too much production of watches from Suntize, Suntize can give the watches at much lower prices than the domestic price of watches in Rodamia. This will harm the watch producers of Rodamia. This can be ... become at least equal to the prices of domestically produced watches. Adding import tax will protect the price of the domestically produced watches. Another way to correct this dumping...

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... ;We're not perfect" (Daily 2News), and then offering a quick solution – "Don't hold it like that" (Breaking Global News). However, Apple has recently released a tangible solution to the problem. At the price of $29, unhappy iPhone users can purchase a protective covering that forms a barrier between the antenna and direct skin contact, thus preventing the cause of the signal problems. For those incredibly displeased customers ... , Apple is offering a refund if the phone is returned undamaged within 30 days (Daily 2News). Although ... ...

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... . Domestic food is processed using domestic laws. Foreign producers have differing standards with regards to what pesticides and herbicides can be used and what safety rules meat cutters have to follow. In many cases, stores import goods because they are cheaper. Frequently, the goods are cheaper because the quality isn't as high or safety standards as strict. Another reason often cited for eating locally ... you in March has far less nutritional value than one picked ripe in August. Eating locally forces us to get back in tune with the seasons: peas in the spring, tomatoes in the summer...

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... Obama was at an economic nations summit in Seoul (Ramstad). The free trade deal includes provisions on auto imports, exports and tariffs, the major stumbling blocks from previous negotiations that prevented the president from signing a revised treaty earlier. The agreement requires South Korea to cut its 8% tariff on U.S. automobiles in half and eliminate it in five years. The U.S. would be allowed to keep its 2.5% tariff on South Korean ... automobiles during the five year period. Historically, the imbalance of exports and imports in the automobile industry was so ... ...

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... control technique to create a name for their rising star. They hired half a dozen girls to swoon in the front rows. Due to the miracle of crowd manipulation, while half a dozen girls swooned for pay, dozens more followed suit, some even to the point of fainting upon receiving a wink from the blue eyed crooner. The truth of the healthcare debate in town hall meetings is that crowd control experts ... working on behalf of those who would discredit the officials hosting the discussions are planting ... some pundits would have you believe that everyone who shows up at a town hall is plante...

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... of job loss would roughly double the unemployment rate, and surely send us into an economic spiral that would take decades to pull out of. Still reeling from the $700 million price tag of bailing out the banks, 61% of the American public does not want to bail out the auto industry, and no one is blaming them. The first checks written to the banking industry had no conditions ... attached, and were veritably squandered. After the public outcry, the reins were pulled in, but by then, the citizenry was already livid, and now they are not ready ... to take on any more debt for overpaid and ...

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... itself is a good reason to make the trip. What It Takes To Be The Best Many foreign athletes head to the U.S. specifically for aquatic sports. The U.S. has had so much success in this area in past Olympics that athletes come to benefit from the advanced training and expertise. For example, U.S. divers have won almost half of all the medals given out in the modern Olympics games. If you want ... to learn how to win, you go to the people who have done it before. This legacy of tremendous success in aquatic sports draws ... foreign athletes to the U.S. to seek the edge that training in th...

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... people do not have safe drinking water and 14 million children five years and below die each years because of poverty and poverty related diseases. • The world's 500 largest industrial corporations employ only .05 percent of the world's population while controlling 25% of the world's economic output. • Only one percent of all multinational corporations own one half of the global stock of foreign direct investments. &bull ... ; Two thirds of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. • The top five multinational corporations control 70 percent of the global market for...

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... billion people do not have safe drinking water and 14 million children five years and below die each years because of poverty and poverty related diseases. - The world's 500 largest industrial corporations employ only .05 percent of the world's population while controlling 25% of the world's economic output. - Only one percent of all multinational corporations own one half of the global stock of foreign direct investments. - Two thirds ... of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. - The top five multinational corporations control 70 percent of the global market for co...

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... quickly links thus concept to the honoring of the dead that gave their lives for the just cause of preserving the Union and with it, freedom and liberty. Unlike other orators of his day, he odes not evoke romantic imagery, he instead lays the responsibility for preserving the Union with those in the audience, telling them and the nation that those fallen in the fight for the preservation of the Union will not have ... to spark a revolution of American unity through the quoting of Jefferson's writings in the Declaration of Independence. There is also the reference to re-consecrating the ...

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... to go after individuals for illegally downloading music. However, in a recent case, a judge threw away the case stating there's no proof the defendant was sharing all the files as it's not illegal to own the files. That was a slap in the face to the RIAA and the record labels. So what's the fuss about and why are record labels losing so much money? It's not because we are stealing music ... . Those singer-songwriter band styles have disappeared from mainstream music. Being an indie artist also allows for most of the profits to be kept by the artist. If I for example were to release an al...

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... the planet would love to see animals and wildlife in their natural habitat with plenty of the space and the resources they need to survive on their own. The problem is that this level of nature conservation is expensive. Leaving land free from development comes at a price. One solution to the expense of providing animals with protected areas is to use tourism as a way to fund the existence of the ... park. The advantages of this approach to nature ... conservation are that the protected area becomes ... ...

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... SNOCAP that lets artists upload their tracks to a store, for a price they prefer, and sell their music. A MySpace profile isn't required to make a purchase, just a credit card and a few selected songs. Using MySpace, artists have a section to list what bands their music resembles or the influences that created their songs. Facebook is the next wave of social linking. Musicians also have an option of ... video you"d see on VH1. Using a program such as Windows Movie Maker, an MP3 of a song can be combined with photos of the artist or band and then made into a video file. Again, the search...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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... our corn crop is used for ethanol production instead of being used for feeds, oils and other food products. Ethanol reduces the efficiency of gasoline, and causes problems in some vehicles. It is not the long term solution to our dependence on foreign oil. Algae farming might well be. While the most productive biofuel crop, oil palm, only produces 6,000 litres per hectare of land ... fuels refined from it emit as much carbon dioxide as conventional fuels, the company says the emissions are offset by the photosynthetic process that uses sunlight, water and C02 to create algal crude. The ...

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... all about? Without facts to back up these buzz words you will not really know if you are on the cutting edge or if it is more of the same old stuff. So what are they and why do many people think that they are the answer to concerns about pollution? So What Are Alternative Fuels? Alternative fuels are made from something other than ... ? Electric vehicles get their energy from the car's batteries. By eliminating the need for gasoline as fuel, the pollutants produced when utilizing gasoline as a fuel source can also be eliminated. So why are they now being widely used now? One of the most ...

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