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Even if federal regulators take some of the sting out of California's energy prices, tight supplies and high temperatures will ensure that sporadic blackouts continue. It's hard to tell who will have the hotter summer--Californians, their Governor, energy executives or George W. Bush...
Anyone who has paid more than $2 a gal. for gas or pondered an electricity bill lately might doubt that the U.S. energy crunch could be easing. Energy inflation in the past year has hit the economy like a slap in the face, and the sting has lingered. Collectively, we've spent $28.2 billion more on natural gas and electricity in the first quarter of this year than in the same period last year, money we could have used to buy other things that keep an economy going. But as more companies bring fuel supplies and power plants online...
Anyone who has paid more than $2 a gal. for gas or pondered an electricity bill lately might doubt that the U.S. energy crunch could be easing. Energy inflation in the past year has hit the economy like a slap in the face, and the sting has lingered. Collectively, we've spent $28.2 billion more on natural gas and electricity in the first quarter of this year than in the same period last year, money we could have used to buy other things that keep an economy going. But as more companies bring fuel supplies and power plants online...
...This summer will also see Jean-Michel Jarre performing his sound-and-light extravaganza at Athens' Acropolis on June 19 and 20. Not to be outdone, Sting will perform amid Roman ruins at Lebanon's Baalbeck Festival on July 13 and 14, while Elton John will play at the Grand Theater of ancient Ephesus on July 17. These singers may have been around for a few decades, but their venues? Millennia. Talk about staying power...
Lisa Kowal, co-captain Kristen Boike, and Carrie Larkworthy are the only remaining players to have played and practiced with now-legend Feaster, a guard/forward for the WNBA's Charlotte Sting. The fourth senior, co-captain and North Carolina transfer Melissa Johnson, played against Feaster in the NCAA tournament when Johnson was a Tar Heel...