SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Ethanol is a Good Alternative Fuel

Essays 211 - 240

Baseball Being Ruined by Steroids

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

Southwest Airlines' Economic Indicators

worldwide as passengers expressed fear of flying as never before. Southwest suffered less than most in the short term. Alw...

Juvenile Delinquency and Drug Use

riotous behavior inasmuch as students contend their rights are being violated by the limitation. The issue at hand, points ...

Energy At The Crossroads by Vaclav Smil

of coal, gas, renewable energy sources and nuclear power. By contrast, however, one who is aware of the damaging impact these res...

General Electric TF34, CF34, and Canadair CRJ Regional Jet Engine

In one page an outline that examines the Canadair Regional Jet's GE TF34 and its commercial CF34 engine in terms of its being quie...

US Economy, 2008

trillion as the forecast GDP in both February and March 2008, and a slight increase to $14.403 trillion in April 2008 (U.S. Gross ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Struggle Between Good and Evi

idea creates a "binary logic," in which evil is conceptualized as an "entity, a quality that is inherent in some people and not in...

Reducing Petroleum Dependence

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

Influences That Impact on Supply and Demand within the Aviation Industry

flux, with both the supply of the product varying, and the amount of demand also fluctuating due to other related factors. If we c...

Fuel Hedging and Airlines - Are the costs Greater than the Benefits?

questions to be addressed with the research is to assess whether or not it is in the interests of the shareholders, assuming they ...

Should Airlines Hedge their Fuel Purchases?

the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...

MITIGATION PLAN: DECREASING USE OF FOSSIL FUELS/FOREIGN OIL

is quite likely. However, there are two issues pertaining to fossil fuels. First, as theyre not a renewable source, once th...

Sources for a Research Project Assessing Any Correlation between Firm Value and Hedging in the Airline Industry

Clark E; Lukas E, (2008, Nov), Hedging mean-reverting commodities, retrieved http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=12...

Airline Profability and Fuel Hedging: An Analytical Look

to the airlines: they have to buy the fuel at the agreed upon rate regardless of what happens to the actual market value of fuel. ...

GENEX FUELS AND TECHNOLOGY

Presents a case study about IT management at the fictitious Genex Fuels. There is 1 source listed in the bibliography of this 6-pa...

The Effect of Fuel Hedging on Airline Profits

in a good position, because it will have hedged for a lower price than the fuel is now actually worth. On the contrary, if the pri...

Theory and Practice in Airline Fuel Hedging

one of these concepts represents a total image of the truth of theory. Rather, a synthetic view of theory developed from exploring...

The Evolution and Future Application of Fuel Injection Systems

the topic of fuel injection, including its history and future trends. Fuel systems are, categorically speaking, systems designed f...

The Value of Fuel Hedging in Small to Medium Airlines

that the organization can ensure that they continue to purchase fuel at the current rate, even if the actual market value of the c...

Airline Fuel Hedging - A Definition of Terms

(Howells and Bain, 2007). Forwards Forwards are the oldest and perhaps the simplest type of derivative. The contract consists of ...

Sustainable Fuel Development in the Colombian Economy

that a business model is only as good as the market in which it operates. For example, the host of Walt Disney World theme parks a...