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...fuel subsidies during an election year, reversed course this year as the oil bills mounted. On July 12 he announced the end of subsidies, which he hopes will curb demand for oil imports that have wrecked Thailand's current account. Last year, Bangkok ran a $7.1 billion current-account surplus, versus a deficit of $6.2 billion in the first half of this year...
...companies tend to research solar energy, electronics companies here have no other energy divisions to worry about compromising. In Japan panel companies and the national government kick-started solar-power adoption with subsidies. A consumer who installs a solar-panel array on a house can sell surplus energy to the local utility. Germany has implemented that model most successfully, and it has been adopted not just in Japan but in South Korea and other European countries. Even with incentives, start-up costs are high, about $20,000 per household in Japan. "The biggest priority now is to reduce costs," says...
...Japan panel companies and the national government kick-started solar-power adoption with subsidies. A consumer who installs a solar-panel array on a house can sell surplus energy to the local utility. Germany has implemented that model most successfully, and it has been adopted not just in Japan but in South Korea and other European countries. Even with incentives, start-up costs are high, about $20,000 per household in Japan. "The biggest priority now is to reduce costs," says Seiichi Kiyama, general manager of the commercial group of Sanyo Electric's solar division...
...diet to having 2%. I knew the Atkins plan was doomed when a diet designed to let you indulge in Lardcicles was losing its willpower and selling people low-carb versions of the rolls and bagels it had demonized. It got so bad that last September Atkins was sending surplus low-carb products to food banks in Appalachia, which to me just seems cruel...
...response, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman?representing a government elected by no one?felt compelled to say publicly that Congress should butt out. Economic tensions with China were already front and center for many Congressmen, obsessed as they have been all year with China's surging trade surplus and a currency that was not revalued until July 21, and the Foreign Ministry did CNOOC no favors in Washington by weighing in. "For [them] to declare that Congress ought to get out of the issue [was] just totally naive, and absolutely inflamed the Congress," says C. Richard D'Amato, chairman...