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Officials at the 21-nation energy agency claim that the global recession has the decisive factor in lower gas prices. Put simply, they say, poor economic growth caused a reduction in energy demand. But UIf Lantzke, executive director of the agency, has predicted that the recession must inevitably come to an end, hence causing a sharp increase in gas prices...
...Earlier that year, administrators had threatened to eliminate storage, citing a lack of space due to House renovations. The UC drafted an alternative storage report, disputing the College’s claim that limiting summer storage space was the only solution. At the time, Fox described the UC-led effort as the most impressive piece of student research in more than 15 years...
...that last argument - that cap and trade may place a financial burden on ordinary Americans - that may be the biggest sticking point for Warner-Lieberman or whatever comes after it. Conservative groups like the National Association of Manufacturers have released studies that claim the bill will ruin the American economy by raising the price of energy through the roof. But in reality, that scenario is unlikely - the balance of economic studies, including one by the Environmental Protection Agency, say the bill's economic cost will be manageable, and a raft of studies claim that the economic cost of doing nothing...
...call her calculations "math" is a reach: Clinton's popular vote claim counts all the primary vote totals but ignores the 15 party caucuses that attracted thousands of participants in every state, and which Obama dominated. That's a revealing way to sum up the five-month long election-and it will be intriguing to see how long Clinton chooses to cling to that line...
...Added to such southern grievances are continuing disputes over the precise demarcation of the internal federal border between north and south under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). In particular, both sides claim Abyei. The north has also been slow to withdraw troops from the south, and suspicions are that it will drag its feet over a referendum, promised by the CPA and due for 2011, in which the south can vote for secession and independence. Complicating the situation is tribal local rivalry in the area, which both sides try to exploit to their advantage...