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Eventually, yes. As long as tight supplies exert upward pressure on prices, the only way to get relief is to knock down demand for oil. Any technology that makes cars more efficient would do that, and hybrid cars are nearly 50% more fuel efficient than even the leanest conventional cars available today. The government offers tax credits for people who buy hybrids, but hybrids may not take off unless gas prices climb significantly higher. "At $3 a gallon, they start looking pretty sensible," Wyss says. Hydrogen-powered cars could make an even bigger dent in oil demand, but they...
...China is also beginning to exert a greater influence on Australian foreign policy. The paths to many of Australia's regional ambitions, including participation in the proposed East Asian Summit and a free trade agreement with China, now pass through Beijing. Ties with China will not supplant Australia's military alliance with the U.S., which is still supported by the great majority of Australians. Differences in political systems and social attitudes also impose a barrier to the sort of easy interaction Canberra enjoys with Washington. But in all sorts of ways, Beijing's voice is being listened to. Foreign Minister...
Believers lived the final chapter of John Paul II's papacy in simultaneous frustration at his decreasing ability to exert church leadership and admiration for his courage in the face of age, medical setbacks and Parkinson's syndrome. U.S. Catholics were confused and perturbed after priestly sexual abuse--and its enabling by at least some bishops--became a searing national issue in 2002. At the Pope's directives, the U.S. bishops' conference proposed a variety of get-tough measures, which were subsequently watered down in Rome. Observers wondered whether that was the most egregious example of papal preference for church...
...administration focused on its war in Iraq and related matters. For China, the period represented an opportunity to consolidate its astonishing strategic gains assembled in line with what some in its foreign policy establishment call a policy of ?concealing strength and waiting for opportunities.? China has no need to exert itself or take risks on the foreign policy front as its power appears to expand exponentially in proportion to its massive economic growth, which has averaged 9 percent per annum over two decades. China's GDP is slated to equal Britain's this year; Germany's in 2009, Japan...
...WHEN FRANCE TRIED TO EXERT POLITICAL CONTROL OVER THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK IN 2000, A BRITISH POLITICIAN SAID THAT THE E.U. HAS BEEN SHOWN FOR WHAT IT IS: A RUSE BY THE FRENCH, FOR THE FRENCH. DO YOU THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO THAT? I don't think the main issue is the attempt to control the European Central Bank. The much bigger issue is the French position on all sides of the political spectrum about fiscal policy and taxation. They want to harmonize taxation. They call the different tax rates [in new member states like the Czech Republic...