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Potent gases flame controversy

…than carbon dioxide. But can the methane also be used as fuel. It’s always been a disturbing what-if scenario for climate researchers: Gas hydrates stored in the Arctic ocean floor…

Growth, more than freedom of capital

…economic growth is to continue without proportional increases in fossil fuel consumption, it is vitally important to exploit new ways of generating value added without doing more work. But it…

Gasoline Prices and the Used Car Market

…car shoppers will seriously consider a more fuel efficient vehicle. The flip side of this story might be companies that purchased SUVs a few years ago to lease. Jathon Sapsford…

Color Me Shocked

…costs by the contractor. A Pentagon spokeswoman said the audit, which found $108 million in questionable fuel delivery costs in Iraq by Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown and Root, was conducted…

Yet More Outsourcing Fuel Here’s one more recent piece of data and analysis about offshore outsourcing, to add to the analysis discussed in the post below. Jason Kirkegaard of the…

Adding Fuel to the Outsourcing Fire The Information Technology Association Of America has just released the results of a study they commissioned from an economic consulting firm called Global Insights….

…$2.64 a gallon to import gasoline and other fuel to Iraq from Kuwait, more than twice what others are paying to truck in Kuwaiti fuel, government documents show… A company’s…

Liberalism and Growth

…more consistently and prolifically outperform; those that are innovative laggards vanish by the wayside. Innovation has positive externalities, is fecund, and leads to economic growth. Ideas and knowledge fuel innovation…