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...Ironically, a big contributor to high gasoline prices has been good environmental intentions. A web of regional clean-air regulations require that up to a third of all gas sold in the U.S. be blended in complex ways for cleaner emissions. The regulations are strictest in California, where, not surprisingly, gasoline is most expensive. Blending costs an extra nickel per gallon in the Golden State and 3[cents] in smog zones in other parts of the country. Because there are more than a dozen types of "reformulated" gasoline, every refinery faces added costs...
...problems are the usual ones - California is short on reserves of reformulated gas, a cleaner-burning blend required by the EPA in certain urban (read: smoggy) areas in summer. Chicago is at the bottleneck of the Midwest refinery supply line; prices go up as soon as one of the area's suppliers (like the Tosco refinery in Wood River, Ill., that had a fire last week) goes down...
...helped, of course, that the missionaries brought more than just Scripture to the villagers. They gave out food and medicine too. "Aspirin was like a gold nugget," Boykin says. As North Americans, they enjoyed celebrity status in rural Peru. They came from a richer, cleaner, shinier planet far, far away. "They would set up a hammock for you in their hut and bring out fish and fruit," says Boykin. "You could be there forever and not find out that every time you finish eating, they're in back eating your leftovers...
...Despite those benefits, coal was orphaned by the Clinton Administration as a sooty legacy of the Industrial Revolution, responsible for everything from acid rain to increasing incidence of asthma. And because of the high costs of pollution controls on coal-fired plants, utilities have turned to cleaner-burning natural gas for 90% of new plants. But by Cheney's estimate, the country will need at least 1,300 new electric-power plants over the next 20 years. And coal, which already generates more than half of U.S. capacity, is a logical choice to power many of them...
...Clean Air Act and success implementing the Clean Air Act and reducing emissions from coal-fired plants. We need to do more. The President's recommended to the Congress that we spend some $2 billion next year on clean coal technology, finding ways to make coal an even cleaner fuel to burn in the future. So I expect it will be important going forward...