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BusinessWeek reports that Ford will sell a 65mpg car called the ECOnetic.
In Europe.
Yet while half of all cars sold in Europe last year ran on diesel, the U.S. market remains relatively unfriendly to the fuel. Taxes aimed at commercial trucks mean diesel costs anywhere from 40 cents to $1 more per gallon than gasoline.
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Demand has risen, and it will be more expensive for growers to produce more. With frozen prices, who would willingly boost their production in order to take a loss?
The school is being operated on land leased from Fairfax County, VA. The county needs to pull their lease and kick them off. This isn’t a free speech issue: this is public land, and people are being taught to commit illegal acts.
In these times where two out of three American Presidential candidates want to nationalize whole industries, it is a relief to see nations like Poland divesting companies and getting out of the way of human progress.
The UK Guardian reports that only 3% of London street robberies were solved with closed-circuit TV.
