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...male, and that's why this isn't a story about Viagra, a proven treatment for that dreaded malady. This is a story about what you might reach for before you need Viagra. Let's put it this way: when I was growing up, I occasionally bought aircraft fuel to improve the performance of my Kawasaki dirtbike. It ran fine on gas, but with the higher octane - let's just say DOWN BOY. This is a story of a search for a more personal brand of jet fuel...
...will depend on consumers, and whether the slowdown has affected their summer travel plans. Between gasoline and jet fuel, if people are traveling in large numbers, that increase in demand - combined with production cuts - could push up prices over $30 again. And that's where it starts to be a real damper on the economy...
...credit card company American Express suggests that those rock-bottom $7 or $15 tickets, available (to the fortunate few) when budget airlines were battling for market share, might be gone forever. Matthew Davis, Amex's director of consulting services, says the low-cost operators are under increasing pressure from fuel-price hikes and increased landing fees. "We have already seen the fare gap between traditional and low-cost airlines narrowing," he says. Budget operators like easyJet and Go, British Airways' no-frills subsidiary, dispute the findings. Go spokesman Brandon Stockwell says that the reason it seems harder to come...
...clean up toxic industrial sites and provide more money to the national parks were cautious, inoffensive stuff. But his new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, is talking a much bolder game. Day after day last week, she spoke of getting the sulfur out of diesel fuel, tightening pollution controls on power plants and even curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming, which is the biggest environmental problem of them all. Is this really the agenda of an Administration headed by two former oilmen...
...Whitman seems to have persuaded Bush to build on some of the unfinished efforts of the previous Administration. The rule to get more than 90% of the sulfur out of diesel fuel, which could prevent tens of thousands of cases of bronchitis each year and about 8,300 premature deaths, was proposed by Bill Clinton. Another set of Clinton's air-pollution regulations, stalled for years by lawsuits, finally won unanimous support last week from the U.S. Supreme Court. In a strong opinion from a surprising source, conservative Antonin Scalia, the court backed the EPA's authority to set tough...