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...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...
...idea of an Arab oil power like Abu Dhabi supporting fossil fuel alternatives sounds a bit like a heroin dealer trying to sell methadone, think again. Virtually alone among its Persian Gulf neighbors, Abu Dhabi has embarked on a serious program in alternative energy research, backed with oil money. In 2006 it launched the Masdar Initiative (the name means "source" in Arabic), a multi-pronged scheme that includes a collaborative research institute with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, support for solar and other kinds of green power within the city itself and a clean energy investment fund worth $250 million...
...anyway - and began to talk more naturally, like a candidate who knew why he was running, after all. He crisscrossed the state telling its depressed electorate that the auto industry was not dead and could be revived with the help of government investment and eased federal standards for fleet fuel economy. He turned down the social-values music and amped up the optimism. Romney was aided in the gambit by rival John McCain, who was delivering a much grimmer message: the lost jobs were gone forever, and Michiganders needed to think harder about worker retraining. McCain - who had joked...
...Romney, attuned to the state's love-hate relationship with Washington, promised to protect Detroit from higher government fuel-efficiency standards. But in a move that may not play so well with small-government Republicans outside the state, he also suggested that the feds could be Detroit's savior, by bringing in billions in new federal investment. At a rally in Grand Rapids, Romney demanded to know, "How in the world can the Federal Government sit back and watch a state suffer year after year after year...
...could go into foreclosure on their homes. That has a rippling effect on the economy." Huckabee's prescriptions for giving the economy a quick boost, however, are hardly detailed or groundbreaking. The most he has done is issue a set of five principles that he calls "family, fed, fight, fuel, fair" and that sum up positions he had previously taken...