Word: switch
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...when it comes to cars, actions don't necessarily follow. Even if prices keep rising, 2 out of 3 drivers say they will never switch to buses. It can now cost $130 to fill the tank of an SUV, yet SUV sales have shot up 25% over the past year. In 2000, when gas cost $2 a gal., fuel efficiency ranked 29th on the list of features car buyers cared about. With gasoline prices higher than ever before, that priority has climbed all the way up to ... 22nd place...
...Memorial Day weekend as busy as ever. Some experts say you won't see drivers really get price sensitive until they are routinely paying $100 every time they fill up. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can float congestion-pricing schemes and tell taxi drivers they have to switch to hybrids by 2012, but to the general public, this is about time and love, not money and reason. We may fear global warming, replace our lightbulbs, recycle our plastics. But in America a man's car is still his castle, and you don't pick a castle for its energy...
...Special elections are short-notice events, and there is money involved; you’re not going to have as many candidates able to pull something together,” Winters said. “If somebody just throws a light switch on and says ‘go,’ it’s different than...a vacated seat in a regular election, where there’s a lot of lead time...
...only are we not asleep at the switch, but we are very much at the helm and managing our business...
MARGARET SPELLINGS, Secretary of Education, referring to a comment by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, who said the department had been "asleep at the switch" when it came to overseeing the student-loan industry...