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High fuel prices will probably keep Americans closer to home this summer, despite the gas-tax "holiday" supported by Hillary Clinton and John McCain that would shave 18?? off every gallon of gas through Labor Day and save most families an estimated $30 this summer (while costing the government $9 billion). A recent poll by AOL and Zogby found that 30% of Americans have changed their vacation plans because of high fuel prices. On websites like Ecomodder and Daily Fuel Economy Tip, drivers are learning how to save by driving smarter, hunting down deals, finding alternative modes of transportation...
...Chicago, 10,000 dead horses had to be towed away in a single year. The flies and the pathogens in the manure dust aside, magazine writers compared the overall "horse cost of living" unfavorably with the cost of switching to cars. At the time, a gallon of gasoline cost 18??, which today would be close to $4--exactly where some experts think we might be headed. But that was still a bargain compared with the oats and tack and stables needed to sustain what Thomas Edison called "the poorest motor ever built...
...know their business. They have won 16 of 40 N.B.A. championships, including the 1985-86 title, and filled every seat in the Boston Garden for 279 consecutive games. Nonetheless, many Wall Street pros are betting against BOS, as the team is listed on the ticker. Share prices opened at 18??, slightly below the expected range of 19 to 21, and dribbled lower. By week's end, the score on the Big Board had dropped to 18??. One reason: fears that since Boston is on top, the team and its stock have nowhere to go but down...
...says, she's got more local problems to solve--like what to do with all that leftover canned fruit and vegetables. A 6-lb. 10-oz. can of peaches costs just 13¢, but two of the four main ingredients are corn syrup and sugar. Cooper would rather pay 18?? for one piece of fresh fruit and consider it an investment in the future...
...story). But Novozymes is making waves as well. It announced in March that with $17 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, it had reduced the cost of enzymes for making booze from corn stover from $5 per gal. of ethanol in 2001 to a mere 10¢ to 18?...