Bush wants to cut US gasoline use by 20 percent
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- Bush wants to cut US gasoline use by 20 percent
- Seeds of learning are home grown.
- In Today’s A Section
- Bush wants to double US emergency oil stockpile
- There’s gold in them thar hills!
- Australia ‘to train imams locally’
Bush wants to cut US gasoline use by 20 percent
Washington Post – Jan 23, 2007
In his speech, Bush called global climate change a”serious challenge” that should be addressed throughtechnology. Bush also called for more use of hybrid vehicles andelectricity produced from carbon-free sources like wind, solarand nuclear power plants. A rising focus on “energy security” by both the Bushadministration and Congress has added momentum to efforts toemploy home-grown fuel sources like ethanol to reduce U. dependency on oil imports. About 60 percent of U.
Seeds of learning are home grown.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 23, 2007
(From Western Daily Press) Education for children need not necessarily involve the daily trip to school – some parents decide to educate their children at home. In North Devon, a small but highly motivated number of parents have formed a group so that they can work together and pool resources. Hayley Graham is chairman of the group, called Home Grown Kids, and educates one of her two sons at home while the other attends a conventional school.
In Today’s A Section
Washington Post – Jan 23, 2007
gasoline use by 20 percentWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Tuesdaycalled for Americans to cut their gasoline use by 20 percentover a decade, mostly through a nearly five-fold increase inuse of home-grown fuels such as ethanol by 2017. In his annualState of the Union address to Congress, Bush also called fortighter vehicle fuel efficiency standards and doubling theStrategic Petroleum Reserve’s capacity to 1. 5 billion barrelsby 2027. Bush’s words on immigration split HispanicsPHOENIX (Reuters) – U.
Bush wants to double US emergency oil stockpile
Washington Post – Jan 23, 2007
consumers aninsurance policy equivalent to about 97 days worth of importsto insulate the world’s biggest oil consumer from global priceshocks. “To further protect America against severe disruptions toour oil supply, I ask Congress to double the current capacityof the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,” Bush said in preparedremarks. The effort is part of a growing focus on “energy security”by both the Bush administration and Congress aimed atincreasing home-grown fuel sources, like ethanol, in order toreduce U. dependency on oil imports. The reserve, created by Congress in the mid-1970s inresponse to the Arab oil embargo, currently holds about 691million barrels of crude at four underground storage sites inLouisiana and Texas. Legislation passed in 2005 called forbuilding storage to 1 billion barrels.
There’s gold in them thar hills!
Calgary Sun – Jan 23, 2007
— photo by AL CHAREST, Calgary Sun Olaus Jeldness, a Norwegian national ski team champion who came to Rossland to seek his fortune, encouraged his fellow miners to have some fun on the steep and snowy slopes of Red Mountain. It has come a long way since then and today the area is a favourite of skiers and boarders for its long cruisers, user-friendly steeps and tight glades. But a new era is unfolding for the home-grown ski area, set above the old frontier-mining town of Rossland. In 2004, the mountain was put in the hands of investors led by entrepreneur and avid skier Howard Katkov, who plans to carry it into the future without losing its retro appeal. The first phase of the mountain’s billion-dollar facelift – the posh, 67-unit Slalom Creek condominium – will open its doors next season and units are for sale through Sotheby’s International Realty. That will be followed by a new quad chairlift to replace the old Silverlode chair and will open another 100 acres of skiing. Those worried about the possibility of radical change in the town’s social dynamic between the old mining-town charm and the posh mountain village of Red Resort can relax.
Australia ‘to train imams locally’
The Age – Jan 23, 2007
“Australia is engaged with Muslims around the world so wedesperately need to develop that sort of expertise in Australia andof course Muslim community needs could be met through such acentre. He said the expectation of imams in Australia was different tothe expectations placed on imams in an average Muslim majoritycountry. “I don’t think the primary objective of the centre is to trainhome-grown imams as such, although it will be a by-product of thecentre,” he said. Muslim and non-Muslim students would be welcome to complete theprogram, he said. “Students of Muslim background who might want to becomecommunity leaders, religious leaders, imams or whatever, they alsocould join the program,” he said. Those students might require training at a community levelbefore taking on leadership positions, he said.