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...Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Finance Minister of Nigeria who is now a managing director of the World Bank. Food prices there, she notes, are already being driven up in part by demand for biofuels, which is leading to the substitution of food crops by those that can produce fuel. If food stays expensive yet economies in Africa and elsewhere slow, there could be big trouble...
Smooth sailing? Ships account for 4% of global emissions, twice as much as airplanes. The new kite could cut 20%?or $1,600?from the cargo ships' daily fuel bill. Similar kites could even be used on cruise liners. But slowing down ships could also be an effective solution. Cutting speed 10% could lead to an estimated 25% reduction in fuel...
...Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister of Nigeria who is now a managing director of the World Bank. Food prices there, she notes, are already being driven up in part by demand for biofuels, which is leading to the substitution of food crops by those that can produce fuel. If food stays expensive yet economies in Africa and elsewhere slow, there could be big trouble...
...year for the past five years, the top three players - China Southern, China Eastern and Air China - are filling less than three-quarters of their seats with paying customers. During a recent price war, tickets were discounted by as much as 70%, according to local media reports. Rising fuel costs and fare caps enforced by Beijing have sliced profit margins. Air China earned about $300 million in 2006, according to the most recent figures, but China Eastern lost $410 million that year...
...Still, the international outcry over Israel's ban of fuel shipments to Gaza - spurred on by TV footage of Palestinian children huddled in the darkness and hospitals struggling to treat medical emergencies - prompted Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday to lift the fuel ban, and allow in medicine, supplies of cooking gas and a week's supply of fuel to run the power plant that feeds electricity to hospitals and sewage and water pumping stations...