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[Green Inc.] A Biodiesel Maker's Tale of Woe - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com: If biofuel producers want to compete with petroleum, they need to come up with economically viable feedstocks. Soybean oil prices are about 40 cents/ pound, and it takes about 7.6 pounds of oil to make a gallon of biodiesel, so that means it costs over $3 / gallon just to produce the biodiesel, plus about 50 cents / gallon operating costs.

[Weekly Edition] Virginia bar groups weathering economy :: Weekly Edition ...: It’s a grimmer picture at Virginia Continuing Legal Education, where some seminars have been cancelled and the organization has delayed filling vacant positions as registrations fell off in the last several months. The situation at the non-profit educational group parallels that of similar organizations across the country.

[Shoutingatmytv.com] Woe Is He: If DeSantis isn't actually actively complicit in AIG-FP's outright fraudulent practices (and this seems unlikely, considering his position), he certainly either is entirely guilty of letting them happen without saying anything or maintained a sufficiently ignorant position about them to fully qualify as incompetent. Considering he became sufficiently well off over the last ten years at the company to be able to turn down three quarters of a million dollars to make a point, it's not easy to excuse that incompetence.

[Crooked County Crooks] WOE UNTO YOU, LAWYERS!: It is not the businessmen, no matter how big, who run our economic world. Again it is the lawyers, the lawyers who “advise” and direct every time a company is formed, every time a bond or a share of stock is issued, almost every time .

[US News] RealClearPolitics - The Incredible Shrinking Economy: The mixture of tax cuts and spending increases in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act should help to maintain the resurgence in consumer spending and provide a turnaround on government spending at the local, state, and federal level. With more consumption and government spending, businesses may ultimately have an incentive again to increase their investments, too.

[Peace Propagation Center] Economic Crisis | An Islamic viewpoint | Peace Propagation Center: Because the people overlooked these shar’i principles in their financial dealings and transgressed the sacred limits of Allaah through lending and borrowing on the basis of riba, selling debts, illusionary transactions, selling before taking possession, selling things that they did not possess, deceitful and ambiguous transactions and dealing with gambling and insurance, that led to calamity and the collapse of their companies and banks. The size of the ill-fated financial derivatives which are the cause of doom in the world is more than $600 trillion.

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Are the Department of Labor's Job Statistics For the Economy Good ...: So, ether more people will make less disposable income, or less people will be making ANY income at all due to the fact that the business CAN'T afford both a tax increase AND keep making their payrolls if more and more people are LOSING their disposable income to higher taxes or unemployment, so employment will worsen over the long run. All in all, it's a bleak situation.

[WHAS11 Political Blog] OUCH -- KY revenue off $100m+ from last April - WHAS11 Political Blog: Lassiter commented that a request has been issued to the Consensus Forecasting Group for an official revision of FY 10 General Fund and Road Fund revenue estimates, and that planning estimates have been requested for both funds for FY 11 and FY 12. The meeting dates for the Consensus Forecasting Group have been set by the Legislative Research Commission for May 18 and 29.

[Johnblakey's Weblog] Kitchen and bathroom « Johnblakey's Weblog: According to the UK Council for International student affairs, over the 2007/08 academic year there were 229,645 non-EU overseas nationals studying at UK universities. A typical undergraduate and PhD student will spend three years studying for their qualification, providing an invaluable boost to our economy via the fees they pay for the privilege of studying at some of the world’s best universities.

[Commentary » Contentions] Commentary » Blog Archive » Bad Arguments Against Striking Iran: Conversely, massive price hikes, such as the ones between 2006 and 2008, had much less to do with war, and more with factors mostly exogenous to the Persian Gulf. But if Iran became a nuclear weapons state, one can be sure that its long reach and penchant for destabilizing neighbors and dominating the region will guarantee that oil prices remain very high for a very long time to come.

[Bits» Start-Ups] Woe Is PC: Sales to Fall Faster Than Ever Before - Bits Blog ...: If a new, faster PC will increase your workplace productivity by even 5%, it’s probably worth getting it, especially since the price for that faster PC is still falling. The problem is that unless you’re in digital media production (especially digital video) or need to run the latest games at the highest resolution, your 1, 2 or even 5-year computer will work fine.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] A Plague of Locusts. | miguelitoh2o's Blog: Write your elected officials and protest the exclusion of a public option in the health care debate. Tell them that the no-lose components of the financial corporate bail outs with tax payer money while individual tax payers caught in the scam declare bankruptcy is unconscionable. 

[Canadian Dimension Blog] Woe is me: A jaunt into youth voter apathy | Blog | Canadian Dimension: As young Canadians, we are all to aware that this cry of apathy is spearheaded by the 18 - 35 age range. In fact, according to this Global broadcast on youth voter apathy, one 41% of Canadians aged 18 - 35 participated in the 2006 election.

[The Big Picture] Beware Insider Selling | The Big Picture: So wait…I’m to believe that the economy is crashing because corporate managers were too stupid to see the dangerous bubble they had created, and I’m also to believe that corporate managers are so brilliant that they’re anticipating problems ahead and dumping stock like crazy?

[Social Media Explorer] Will The Economy Change Our Spending Habits? | Social Media Explorer: People are still going to buy stuff, so the Brands that people feel a stronger affinity with will win while the Brands that are pushing un-passioned product from the HQ at un-compromising consumers will (and need to) lose out.

[WalletPop Blog] Bad customer service? It's a lot smarter to treat customers right: But the thing that would upset me to no end was "Women returning clothes" Stinky dirty clothes grown women trying to return worn stinky dirty bra's how low can some people go and at the time we had to refund! I would call the store manager explain how ^&$#* I did not even want to touch nasty #@%$ AHHH, If I were the manager this would of never happen!

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