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...expand the supply of oil are not going to be sustainable. Oil demand is going to start outrunning supply sometime between 2015 and 2025, according a range of estimates from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation, meaning that prices are likely to skyrocket as third world development puts demand pressure on production capacity. The likelihood of finding more oil is extremely low at this point. In the 70s fuel reserves were underestimated due because they did not take into account the technological progress that would make untapped, although previously known, oil reserves financially...
Cell phone bills skyrocket with constant updates between family members before class, during class—bathroom break!—and after class. TFs look quizzically at watergun-toting students who rush into the room panting for breath, only to creak open the door slowly, peering nervously outward, after section comes...
...Especially since I’ve been at college, I’ve seen girls’ basketball just skyrocket in my town,” Moore said. “We didn’t have an AAU summer league in our town when I first stared playing AAU. My parents and some other parents started the first AAU team in our town. Now there’s been lots of AAU teams, started at younger ages, and girls’ basketball has really taken...
...protect states’ rights. (You may remember Philadelphia as the town where three Northern civil rights activists, who were meddling in the state’s rights by registering blacks to vote, were duly “disposed of.”) Seeing his support in the South skyrocket he then chastised the Welfare Queens (black women who live off the state and get paid to have more and more babies...
Aside from that Grucci Brothers skyrocket of invective, 25th Hour is pretty lethargic stuff. Monty, a convicted drug dealer on his last day before he is to report to prison, does more moping than moving. The virtue of this brutal downer is on the edges, in the evocation of New York after 9/11: depressed, cratered, postapocalyptic. The film suggests that Gothamites have been frozen in their tracks, like emotional zombies waiting to see if the next attack can make them feel deader than they already...