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Compared with many of his countrymen, Asokan is fortunate. At least 8,000 Indian villages have no local water supply at all. Their residents must hike long distances to the nearest well or river. In many parts of the country, water is contaminated by sewage and industrial waste, exposing those who drink it to disease...
...their consumers two or three times as high. As a result, Japanese citizens use about only a third as much energy as their American counterparts. Though experts have urged raising U.S. energy taxes for years, American voters steadfastly resist the idea. They then complain bitterly when producing nations hike their prices...
...resulting shortfall of over $250 million in the $13.4 billion budget, a 4% cut in most government services was put into effect. Although only 1.5% of taxpayers would be affected by limiting federal deductions to $10,000, it would devastate a state struggling with its largest tax hike ever...
...OPEC wants, the total U.S. import bill will be fattened by about $9 billion, to $63 billion a year. And, unlike the Japanese, Americans tended to relax their efforts to conserve fuel once it became cheap again. At this point, economists do not expect a $3 oil hike to stunt economic growth seriously in the U.S., but even a slight shock is painful with the economy as weak as it is. Last week the government said economic growth during the second quarter slogged along at an anemic annual rate of 1.2%, prompting fears of an imminent recession...
...tens of thousands of campers and rafters this summer, a vacation in the wilderness may mean they have to take a number to take a hike...