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[The Oil Report] DrumBeat: December 3, 2008: The survey suggests the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries met 66 percent of a pledge to lower output by 1.5 million barrels per day in November — so far not enough to counter the slump in oil demand as the world economy slows.

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[John Redwood's Diary] John Redwood MP » Not a penny of taxpayer money for Jaguar, please: Is it really a good idea to go on producing such expensive cars in a slump? Perhaps Jaguar suffers from the same problem as the American car giants : that nobody is interested in buying the cars because they are outdated not just stylistically but because they do not fit a modern economic demographic.

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[Untitled] The Oil Drum | Drum(stick)Beat: November 27, 2008: The difference in height between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and the size of these lakes would seem to have much more than 2OGW capacity, if pumped storage was used, especially if it was possible to control the lake levels back to Lake Superior. So Lake Superior could be pumped up 1 meter above mean level in winter and pumped down( or drained down to Lake Erie 1 meter below mean level in summer, that's a lot of extra water, especially if some is re-used by being pumped back past Niagara falls during off peak in summer.

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