An example that others will follow?
ATLANTA –Governor Sonny Perdue announced today several immediate fuel conservation initiatives in anticipation of Hurricane Rita and the potential for temporary disruption of fuel supply in Georgia .
“In recent weeks, the nation has experienced temporary disruptions of gas supply as a […]
When the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline peaked at $3.07 recently, it was partly because the nation’s refineries were getting an estimated 99 cents on each gallon sold. That was more than three times the amount they earned a year ago when regular unleaded was selling for $1.87.
Exxon Mobil Corp., the Irving, […]
Bush’s standing with the public — and within the Republican Party — has been battered by a failed Social Security campaign, violence in Iraq, and most recently Hurricane Katrina. His approval ratings, 42 percent in the most recent Washington Post-ABC poll, have never been lower.
See this Washington Post page for more info
Now he struggles to […]
News.com reports:
Online payments company PayPal is working to fix a glitch that has been causing duplicate debit card withdrawals and deposits on some customer accounts since the beginning of September.
The problem first surfaced on Sept. 6, when some PayPal customers noticed duplicate withdrawals from their debit cards that sent their accounts into the red. […]
Anti-war groups are using a $1 million ad campaign and a demonstration they say will attract 100,000 people to try to re-energize their movement and pressure the Bush administration to bring troops home from Iraq.
Organizers of Saturday’s protest, which will take marchers past the White House, say it will be the largest since the war […]
Sun-Sentinel FEMA Investigation took a look at 20 recent disasters and found mismanagement and misallocation abound. FEMA paid out hundreds of millions to people who were untouched by disaster.
Example: FEMA paid $31 million in Miami-Dade County for Hurricane Frances, even though the Labor Day weekend storm made landfall 100 miles to the north. Subsequent reports […]
Whats it about?
In Bill Clintons words:
It is my pleasure to announce the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative to be held September 15-17, 2005, in New York City. This event, which will bring together King Abdullah II, President Leonel Fernandez Reyna, President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary General Kofi Annan, Vice Premier […]
Think about this for a moment, what causes global warming and is probably to blame for the warm waters in the gulf and therefore for the fast growing and extreme hurricanes we see? To much emissions from cars with high consumption of gasoline besides other sources by the power hungry US. So now […]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether gasoline prices were illegally increased after Hurricane Katrina and if oil companies have constrained refinery capacity to keep fuel prices high, an agency official told Congress on Wednesday.
“We are continuing our intense scrutiny of conduct in the petroleum industry in the aftermath of Katrina,” John Seesel, FTC […]