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...that note, Bush is also including some money for alternative-fuel-source tax credits to inoculate him against the charges of environmental unfriendliness that are sure to be leveled in Tuesday's debate. He's even starting to sound like Gore, saying his tax credits "will include extensions of the wind power credit and closed loop biomass credit, and also include an open loop biomass credit and a 15 percent credit for residential solar power facilities, capped...
...products, not just heating oil. This means that prices at the pump--which are justifiably high given the negative effects of smog and other environmental effects of auto pollution--will fall along with heating oil. This means that SUV and luxury car drivers--people who burn a lot of fuel for no good reason--will benefit as much as poor and middle-class families trying to heat their houses this winter...
...major impetus for Chinese Americans to organize as a political force. The Wen Ho Lee Fund, based in California, has so far raised nearly $400,000 in small donations from across the country. Lee's release is likely to increase financial support for his full exoneration--and to fuel future Asian-American activism...
...Prime Minister abruptly found himself the prime target of an infuriated nation last week when stoic Brits reached the end of their patience over extravagant fuel prices and the country ran out of gas. A mere handful of truckers and farmers--not more than 2,500--shut down the world's fourth largest economy, blockading refineries and supply depots, emptying nearly every filling station, propelling panicked buyers to strip milk and bread from market shelves, closing schools and businesses, provoking the Queen to grant Blair broad emergency powers. In the end, he didn't need them. The savvy protesters claimed...
...neither Britain's nor the rest of Europe's fuel troubles are over. Tanker trucks may be rolling again to London, but identical protests, which actually began in France a week before, spread into Germany and Spain, the Low Countries, Greece and Ireland. Europeans were bent on telling their governments they had had enough of paying the world's highest prices at the pump. Now their stunned leaders must find an acceptable reply...