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Is There a Correlation between the Profitability and Practice of Hedging in Airlines?

of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...

Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

Reducing Petroleum Dependence

discussed more fully below. The second consideration that must be made when contemplating how to reduce and mitigate the...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

Uses and Abuses of Fossil Fuels

clay, silt, and mud. Eventually, with the exception of the peat, everything turned to rock and the sheer weight of the mass on to...

California's Fuel Crisis

In eleven pages this paper examines the national fuel crisis with the emphasis upon California residents and the state's economy. ...

Paint Caused the Hindenburg Disaster

to the belief that it was hydrogen that caused the flames and also because the United States and Germany were at a very tense posi...

East Asia's Cultural Values and Competition With Western Europe and North America

of creating a tripolar global environment. Bergsten (2001) further asserts how the only way to prevent such a detrimental occurre...

'The Tragedy of the Commons' like Garrett Hardin How The "Tragedy Of The Commons" Applies To Using Forests As Wood For Fuel And Housing

an influential metaphor in the environmental movement" (Vandermeer, 1996, p. 290) - supports the fact that rainforests do not exis...

Biodiesel Fuels

quite competitive with petroleum-based fuel (Pahl 65). However, as yet, biodiesel is not competitively priced with the petroleum...

NEO-NAZISM IN THE UNITED STATES: AN OVERVIEW

(Phillips, 2007, 70). In this paper, well trace the origins of Neo-Nazism in the U.S., point out its views, and give an...

Alternative Automobiles

electricity for power, but because it uses gas as well, it is able to make the long trips (Wouk, Retseck & Johnson, 1997). Of cour...

Transportation Fuel Possibilities of Natural Gas

convert their current vehicles or purchase new ones. As well, smaller, light-duty fleets, such as those used by police departments...

Longevity of the Star Trek 'Franchise'

evolve? What is the connection or what is the appeal. Is it truly a matter of fantasy or some form of a desperate attempt to be pa...

Comparing the American and French Revolutions in Terms of Causative Factors

reforms to France, however, it did not make France a democracy. The socioeconomic structure of pre-Revolutionary France was at th...

Single Commodity Economy of Kuwait and its Difficulties

for their most basic needs. There is no question that Kuwait is faced with a problem, and that is determining...

Harvard Case Study of Ford Pinto

subcompact models. Regulations existed for fuel economy and safety. Ford itself had concerns about the placement of the gas tank ...

Issues in Fuel Cell Development

on hydrogen, something that is virtually inexhaustible and nonpolluting (2002). Essentially, the drawbacks of fossil fuels have to...

Diesel Fuel Emissions and Their Detrimental Impact Upon Health

Diesel emissions are more hazardous than emissions from gasoline engines (Auto Pollution, 2002). Studies have found that...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

Climate Change and Technology

in opinion over the last few decades, with a general acceptance that it is the human influences which is causing damage to the env...

Operations Management Calculations

too long to make an analysis of it viable when undertaking all the other tasks of everyday life and setting up a business. When ...

Environment and Diesel Fuel

using solar energy to decompose water, and heat from the earths interior. On our short human time scale, this brief "fossil-fuel ...

South Korea and Hydrogen Car Introduction

Introduction South Korea is one of the "tigers" of Southeast Asia. It has embraced capitalism and economic growth as has o...

Climate Change

there is only so much oil and no more. When it will run out is a completely unknown factor. A report by BP suggested that oil woul...

The Controversy over Bilingual Education

this program allows children to retain their heritage and their home culture (Rothstein 672). Further, proponents comment that som...

Discussing Ethics and Issues of Abortion

In this paper consisting of seven pages the ethical issues that continue to fuel the abortion fiery controversy are presented in t...

Electric versus Alcohol as Alternative Fuel for Automobiles

In this paper consisting of ten pages these alternative fuel sources for cars are examined with the conclusion that despite their ...

Fuel for Diesel Engines and Using Natural Gas

In eighteen pages this paper examines how diesel fuel can be enhanced by natural gas. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography...

Society and American Pop Art

In five pages this paper examines pop art as featured at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in terms of history and th...