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[Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks] The Fallacy Of Electric-Car Economics - Contrarian Stock Market ...: Now, what I didn’t take into account is the approximate $5,000 premium that people are paying for the privilege of buying that stock, hybrid Prius in the first place over the price of a gas-powered economy car such as the Honda Civic. If you want to tack on that extra $5,000, you’ll see that the ROI is simply absurd (or maybe not as absurd as Moore’s $10,000 Prius conversion).

[Shrinking Footprints :: Carleton College] Carleton College: Sustainability: Shrinking Footprints Blog ...: Though Greenland’s melting ice sheets may not seem directly linked to the lives of Minnesotans, Klobuchar made the issue if rising global temperature hit home by drawing a connection with the decreasing water levels that we are currently experiencing in the Great Lakes. She explained that barge traffic is an essential part of the economy and supplies many jobs in northern Minnesota.

[Full Comment] Jim Prentice: Working with Washington to tackle climate change ...: Somehow, I suspect my personal carbon footprint is a hell of a lot smaller than most Liberals, mainly because I haven't owned a car for 20 years and travel by train, not jet, between Quebec and Toronto. And I'll bet my house heats for a hell of a lot less than Paul Martin's chateau in the Eastern Townships or Chretien's little pad at Lac des Piles.

[LIVE TIM BLAIR NEWS-SPORTS BLOG & PHOTOS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON USA RIGHT NOW] care2: 31 Wake Up Leaders Who Sleepwalk Through Climate Change 6 comments | visit site 29 Terri Irwin to Launch Whale Research hot!!! | add a comment | visit site 47 New Species Found in Mysteriously Diverse Jungle 1 comment | visit site more ...

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: America's challenge: 1929 or 1941?: At the start of this decade it looked like America had unchallengable military power, the economic dynamism to pay for it, and a highly exportable freemarket ideology...after just two weeks, much of this is in doubt. Washington's inability to solve its banking crisis has already harmed the USA's standing in the world.

[Full Comment] Sheldon Alberts: Alberta shifts from selling oil to defending oil ...: Already this year, Alberta has lost a high-profile fight to convince California to abandon a low carbon fuel standard that seeks to eliminate transportation fuels with high “life cycle emissions.” The province and the government of Canada unsuccessfully argued that the rules discriminate against fuel refined from Alberta’s unconventional oil sands oil, which has life cycle emissions up to 30 per cent higher than in conventional oil.

[John Lothian Newsletter] October 27, 2009: Schapiro Gives Support To Hedge Fund ...: Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes. The five-year-old social network will "memorialize" profiles of the dead if their friends or family request it.

[The Urethane Blog] The Urethane Blog: Spray Foam Insulated Tents: The Pentagon says that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have required more fuel on a daily basis than any other war in history. Since the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq began in 2001 and 2003, respectively, the amount of oil consumption at forward bases has increased from 50 million gallons to 500 million gallons a year.

[EFT Blog] My Retirement”¦and a Gift to the EFT Community - EFT Blog: In my mind you are so much more famous than any star with footprints in the sidewalk of a Chinese restaurant. You leave a very deep footprint this lifetime and have done so much to make this world a better place because of your faithfulness and good stewardship with what you were given.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » NYT scoop: Barack Obama's law students ...: Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M.

NJN Network: She is riding home from the conference on a bicycle - very green and low carbon footprint. She is carrying three brightly colored plastic bags on her bicycle, a telling waste of hydrocarbons that will no doubt remain in the environment for eons. The Fotex shopping bag is not durable. ... Click for larger graph SOURCES: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Bureau of Economic Analysis; Federal Reserve | GRAPHIC BY NEIL IRWIN, CRISTINA RIVERO AND TODD LINDEMAN / THE WASHINGTON POST ...

[Bartlett's Blog] Climate change and the war on error: “But where does this leave the denialists, who dominate the opinion pages of the Oz, and most of the rightwing blogosphere? Their view, that the whole thing is a hoax cooked up by greenies and scientists looking for grant money, wasn’t presented, but looking at the results it’s hard to believe it would attract more than 1 or 2 per cent of the population, on a par with theories that NASA faked the moon landings, or that the US government was behind 9/11.”

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For October 21, 2009: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats launched a drive at both ends of the Capitol on Wednesday to strip the insurance industry of its decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws, part of an increasingly bare-knuckled struggle over landmark health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama.

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