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...ensuing rise in gas prices and drop in sales underscored another weakness. Although gas-eating SUVs found a sweet spot in the U.S., for Detroit to assume a world in which gas prices would remain below $2 a gal. was asinine. In Europe, gas had long sold for more than $5 a gal., and tax policy ensured that it would stay there; the growing BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China - were driving up demand. Detroit's response was to lobby furiously against increasing fuel-economy standards instead of building more-efficient SUVs...
...Lake Mead reservoir, 65 miles to the northwest, you can see the source of all that growth. In a city that receives just 4 in. of rain a year, residents in the sprawling housing developments where much of the Las Vegas population lives use an average of 165 gal. of water a day--and 90% of that comes from Lake Mead, the reservoir created by Hoover Dam in 1935. Lake Mead holds Nevada's 130 billion gal. share of the Colorado River's flow, split with six other states in the West--and for decades, says Pat Mulroy, head...
...reason for the world's growing water woes is evident in the numbers. The planet fairly sloshes with water--326 quintillion gal. of it--but only 0.014% of that is available for human use. The rest is nonpotable ocean water or inaccessible freshwater, most of it frozen in polar caps. And the available water we do have is far from evenly distributed. About 1.1 billion people have no access to clean water, and half the planet lacks the same quality of water that the ancient Romans enjoyed. And while the amount of water on the planet remains fixed, the number...
...problem. The collapse of the country's harvest contributed to a doubling of the price of rice this past spring, which in turn led to food riots in countries like Indonesia, the Philippines and Egypt. And that's the real impact of water scarcity--food scarcity. It takes 150 gal. of water to grow a pound of wheat, up to 650 gal. for a pound of rice and 3,000 gal. to raise the equivalent of a quarter-pound of beef...
...long, not only had I surrendered my New York Times to the bottom of his crate, but I was also soon waking up early…and even working out. Each morning, we would venture to the trails, where I would hike with my new companion. Yet like any gal who’s fallen too far in love, I soon became Billy’s bitch. I found myself picking up after him constantly, giving him sponge baths, and showering him with gifts. I sometimes even found myself stooping to his level while I played on all fours...