Word: profitability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...believe that we need cleaner, more independent sources of energy, how will you help convince those who will still profit from oil? Andrew Rowley SPOKANE, WASH...
...profit from oil--we peaked in America in 1970 with 10 million bbl. a day. We're down to 5 [million bbl.] now. There will always be a place for oil, but we have to get over to the renewables, which are wind and solar, first. Those are assets that we have done nothing with in America...
...Miami is coming down, and locals don't expect to see another one for a while. Developers threw up some 23,000 housing units along South Beach and its environs beginning in 2003, many of them bought by speculators who thought they could flip the properties for a quick profit. Then the music stopped. "Our best guesstimate--and we've talked to lenders and developers--is that you will not see a residential construction crane in the sky in downtown Miami for a generation," says Peter Zalewski, a real estate broker and founder of Condo Vultures, a realty-intelligence service...
...illegal downloading is causing a large enough financial loss to the record companies, by all means, they should sue. Otherwise, their profit-motive will be gone and we won’t get any more music,” Dung said...
...that most employers cannot afford to provide insurance, and individuals cannot come up with the $27,000 a family must pay on average for annual coverage. The only long-term solution is to eliminate insurance companies through a national single-payer health plan, or "Medicare for all." Without the profit motive and with Medicare's demonstrated efficiency, enough would be saved to insure everyone. Richard K. Staggenborg, COOS...