Word: pumps
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...price crept past $2 a gallon, and Washington was obliged to scramble for remedies. And yet, $2 a gallon may not be high enough: European success in curbing their own carbon gas emissions has relied in part on taxing gasoline so heavily - as much as 75 percent of the pump price in Britain goes to tax, compared with about 8 percent in the U.S. - that consumers pay more than $4 a gallon. And that serves as a powerful incentive to drive less (and use a more energy-efficient vehicle when you do). Good luck to anyone trying to sell that...
...every year, that would mean an economically burdensome 20-30 percent reduction in coal-fired electricity, gasoline consumption and other burning of fossil fuel. Europe is far ahead of the U.S. on the road to reducing its carbon gas outputs, but mostly through taxes on gasoline that push the pump price up past $4 a gallon - a scenario almost unthinkable for any U.S. politician contemplating reelection...
...instructor is reviewing for next week's midterm, and Serena, without looking at her meticulous notes, is correctly giving most of the answers. When the teacher announces that the test will be multiple choice, Venus and Serena, showing they are worthy and true students, look at each other, pump their fists and yell...
Asked early in the election which single program would distinguish him from any other candidate, Gore cited his $50 billion "universal preschool" proposal, which would extend the Georgia model to the nation. It's the single costliest--and boldest--piece of his education agenda. Gore would also pump an extra $10 billion over 10 years into Head Start, the existing federal preschool program for poor children, which would continue to provide them with both educational enrichment and social services like meals and health care...
...landing almost daily from Russia, Europe and all over the Arab world (including countries that had fought alongside the U.S. in the Gulf War). And not when Turkey, the staging ground for most U.S. air attacks against Iraq since the Gulf War, moves to reopen a pipeline to pump Baghdad?s oil. This week Baghdad is hosting an international trade fair attended by representatives of some 45 countries - not exactly par for the course for a country subjected to fearsome international sanctions. Even more alarming for Washington is the fact that the biggest delegations came from Russia, China and France...