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...Fighting the Fiscal Fix It's not often that I agree with michael Kinsley, but his Essay opposing a fiscal stimulus was a winner [Feb. 4]. For years we have overspent on oversize homes, flat-screen TVs and gas-guzzling SUVs, with little regard for our ability to pay for them. Now it's time for the people and the government to break the addiction. Kent Nash, HENDERSON...
...stint in May 1 elections - announced that from October onward, drivers of high-polluting vehicles will have to pay a punitive ?25 or $50-a-day toll for city-center journeys. The chief focus of Livingstone's wrath are the four-wheel drive vehicles he calls "Chelsea tractors": shiny gas-guzzlers driven by affluent moms who drop off their little darlings at private schools and then cruise into town for their Botox appointments. The toll will be levied on any vehicle emitting more than 225g of carbon dioxide per kilometer (about 13 oz per mile) as well as any cars...
...engine guzzles a lot of gas. But the car is used very little, only for occasional necessary short trips and the odd journey for recreational purposes. The advice I'd received from green experts is that it's preferable to keep an old car going for as long as possible. Each new car requires energy and materials to produce, equivalent to some 15% of the total lifetime emissions of a car in regular...
...Gazprom had also been reselling cheaper gas from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at higher prices to Europe. But Turkmenistan has raised its prices to Russia by 30%, and intends to add a further 20% raise in the second quarter of 2008. Uzbekistan has done the same. And Turkmenistan's plans to supply China will also break Gazprom's monopoly, via its control of pipelines, on delivering Central Asian gas exports...
...what will Gazprom do if Ukraine simply pays its latest bill? "Most likely, it will accuse either Ukraine, or Belarus, or both or any other transitor of diverting its transits," Krutikhin says. If, indeed, Gazprom is running short of gas, the Ukraine price-hike could be just the beginning of a turbulent season on gas markets...