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...While many are worrying about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs.' ROBERT ZOELLICK, World Bank president, after U.S. President George W. Bush ordered the release of $200 million in emergency aid to help ease soaring food prices Numbers
...people for real? Unemployment is high, gas prices are astronomical, and food prices are climbing, and what do you offer as an article but a report on $40 bottled water and $145 a bottle vinegar [April 14]. Honestly! Going out for us is lunch at a chain restaurant using coupons, and that doesn't happen often. We buy our clothes at Goodwill and discount stores. That $120 spent on a single beer could have provided a family of four with food for a week. Why not do something that will make you feel a whole lot better: donate the money...
...clustered in 25 states, each of which gets half or more of its electricity from coal. Why does that matter? Because creating a system in which electric utilities pay for the right to pollute will drive up electricity rates in those states and could force a shift to natural gas...
...ReusableBags.com, an organization founded to promote the use of canvas sacks, plastic bags take four times less energy to produce and 91 percent less energy to recycle than paper, and Professor Bill Rathje, director of The Garbage Project, says they are at least three times less voluminous, requiring fewer gas-guzzling trucks to move them around and taking up less space in landfills...
...Naimi had no good news for those hoping for some relief from sky-high prices. He said it could take "at least 50 years" for the world to comprehensively adopt alternatives to the oil and gas that today account for about 90% of world energy consumption. Naimi castigated Western governments that have pushed biofuels as the major energy alternative, which has ravaged forests and agricultural land. Biofuels, he said, "will produce just 6% of energy consumption by 2010, and has not even reduced greenhouse gases." Instead, the world's most powerful oilman advocated "truly renewable sources of energy, like solar...