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...federal excise tax on airline tickets, plus a $2 surcharge to pay for air-traffic-control services, think of America's corporate bosses. They don't pay the tax or surcharge if they're flying on company planes--for business or pleasure. Though corporate jets pay a fuel tax, these revenues do not come close to covering their share of air-traffic-control costs. It works out to a subsidy of upwards of $350 million a year to corporate America. So far in the 1990s, this particular corporate-welfare program has cost taxpayers about $3 billion...
...assess the feasibility of using landfill gases to generate power in Brazil; to develop an electric-vehicle demonstration program for India; to improve energy efficiency in Egypt, according to a company brochure, by "encouraging Cairo's 2,500 bakeries to switch from filthy fuel oil to cleaner, more efficient natural gas." Nice, but should American taxpayers be paying...
Kamal said U.S. failure to properly monitor India's preparations was "an act of acquiescence bordering on collusion. The U.S. supplied India with material necessary to create the bomb, from computers to heavy water to initial fuel...
...nowhere to go but endlessly around the earth. True, until a few years ago, it could have been argued that a moon base was impractical and Mars exploration even more so. But we have recently discovered ice on the moon, which makes the provision of water and (from water) fuel a real possibility. Similarly, new ideas have been advanced for using Mars' water and pre-positioned fuel stores to reduce radically the loads human travelers would have to haul there...
...years a powerful industry coalition, led by automakers and coal and oil companies, tried to persuade everyone that global warming was nothing to get overly alarmed about. The barons of fossil fuel warned that curbs on emissions of greenhouse gases would destroy jobs without necessarily having a positive effect on our climate. But now, as officials from 180 nations meet in Buenos Aires this week to firm up the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty forged in Japan last year to combat climate change, the forces of opposition have suffered some major defections...