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Impact Higher Fuel And Energy Costs On Business

segments: economic, demographic, socio-cultural, global, technological and political/legal (Hanson et al. 2008). These can be vie...

Economic Profile : Airline Industry

of airline tickets affects the demand. Rubin and Joy (2005) reported that the demand elasticity for leisure travel is 2.4, which i...

The Attractiveness Of Biomass Fuels For The United States

petroleum diesel by virtue of its use in compression-ignition engines; as such, it presents no damaging effects when mixed as a tw...

Bio-fuels; An Economic Perspective

industry may be seen as an oligopoly with the concerted effort of suppliers to work in order to control the supply The need for ...

The Airline Industry; Economic Analysis

This is a global phenomenon. This increase can be seen in terms of both freight and passengers. Here we can see a comparison in th...

The Benefits of New Technologies on E-Commerce

1995 world wide only 1 financial institution had web banking, by 2002 this increased to 6,000 had this. In 1995 only 50 financial ...

Ashland Oil Fuel Spill of 1988 Public Relations' Critique, Ethical and Legal Analysis

issues that pertain to Ashland are as follows. First, Ashland had failed to obtain a building permit for the construction of the ...

Europe's Colonization Efforts

fulfilled during the period between 1763 and 1848, however, illustrates how brute force and religious/political intervention was e...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Are Fuel Prices Correlated with Elections

higher due to inflation. There are many tests we can undertake using this data, but for the comparison of data sets to asses if t...

Cleaner Plastics; Lifecycle and Recycling

plastic carrier bags used in supermarkets and they are banned in Bangladesh (Knight, 2002). There have also been the passing of le...

Fuel Cells

a practical solution for the long run. Fuel cells are an important enabling technology for the hydrogen economy and have the pote...

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...

Biodiesel Fuels

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

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Fuel Cells as an Energy Alternative

subsidies for driving (Martin, 1996). Of the total, air pollution demands $66 billion, land use $65 billion, and noise pollution ...

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...

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...

An Overview of Fuel Pricing Factors

moves" (Khaleej Times Online, 2004). In the case of the United States, the nation relies on oil remaining stable in order to suppo...

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...

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 ...

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...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Debate on Reduction of Fossil Fuels

2005). -- Noncompliant companies would be fined (Skinner, 2005). --The aim of one program would be to create cars that could use ...

Baseball Being Ruined by Steroids

national pastime" (Small, 2005, 6). National pastime or not, however, baseball is no less susceptible...

Robert Herrick's 'Julia's Petticoat'

there, pleasd with transgression evrywhere." This is hardly the action a petticoat could manage were Julia demurely seated at a t...

Anti Semitism Throughout U.S. History

likely that the Holocaust would have been even more horrendous than it was. Many, however, have the tendency to point to America ...

Fuel Cells as an Alternate Energy Source

terms of our energy choices we should look not just to one energy source but rather towards a carefully selected group of renewabl...