...If there was a way to ensure that they don't harm the animals while they do it, than I'd say go for it.The gas prices are gone crazy, but it isn't the gas prices themselves that are the big problem. The price of gas has caused everything else to skyrocket.I mean something really has to be done. Last December I was paying $7.89 for 50lbs of corn for my chickens, and last week I paid $16.39 for 50lbs. Last summer milk was under $3 a gallon. This summer I stopped buying milk after it went over $5.50 a gallon. Last sumer oranges were 10 fr a dollar, this summer they are $1.25 per orange! Pomergrants were .99c last year, they are $3.99 this year. Why? Because of the trucking shortage. Truckers can't afford gas to ship food to the stores, stores are raising prices because their shelves are not being restocked.Did you know that in December it cost me $30 a month to buy cat, and now just 6 months later it cost me $90 per month for the same amount of catfood! That's triple the about in less than 6 months!It was on the news last night that the food prices have gone up so much that people can no longer afford to pay their daily bills. They said there are home for closers at a rate of 8,000 per day, as a result, and they expect that number to rise over the next 2 months.... that's more for closers per day than we saw in the 1920's, which says to me that if something isn't done, and done soon, we are going to be hit with a second great depression and it'll make the last one look like a pleasant...
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...Dependency upon oil The world’s economy and the world’s way of life, has become extremely reliant on oil. The U.S. and other countries can reverse their decision to be reliant on oil over a long period of time, but in the mean time, they have been extremely reliant on the free flow of oil and the energy oil produces. It’s more than reasonable to suggest that all countries including the U.S. has a plan of action to deal with manmade or natural disaster disruptions to the oil needs. For the U.S., disasters such as 9/11 and the Katrina hurricane have suggested that we do not have an emergency plan that’s needed to counteract a short-term energy disruption. Focus is given to the U.S. and how we need a plan for not only short-term issues and disruptions, but also a long-term plan and how any of it can be used as being flexible if one part fails. If the U.S. or any other country decides to release their heavy reliance on oil, it would not only create a safer world but also a cleaner world. Consequences for society- o “Oil dependence lies behind the jihadist threat” or terrorist attacks o “Oil dependence reduces the leverage of the world community in responding to threats from oil-exporting nations” can’t bargain very well… o “Economic growth in oil consuming nations increases the demand for oil and pushes up oil prices.” Hurts pocket books… o “For the United States, of course, any increase in the dollar price of oil is immediately felt as an increased price burden, possibly...
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...Lana. I agree that we should continue to drill until we have another source or other sources available to us to conserve more energy. At the same time be relentlessly seeking alternatives to drilling in order to rapidly start increasing the health of our people, our land, and our animals. COMPETE Coalition is more than 600 electricity stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, traditional and clean energy generators, transmission owners, trade associations, technology innovators, environmental organizations and economic development corporations – all of whom support well-structured competitive electricity markets for the benefit our country. c38167102 I think that this organization is on the right track to a healthier United States, and is a perfect example of the view that I have on energy conservation. The things that might hinder my thinking when it comes to alternatives for energy efficient living is change of habits; tendencies to use a lot of energy for multiple of reasons such as: watching television, communications, and a phobia of the dark. It would be hard for me to make these changes, because I have relied on these things in excess for so long. But, I can overcome these habits by the force of love that flows within me (which is my spirit), for the people, the children, and the world as a whole. I will start by buying more candles, energy saving light-bulbs, and an extra trash can or two. I will get in the habit of unplugging items when not in use, turning off...
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...Demers** Economist Research Department Bank of Canada Abstract This paper develops simple econometric models to analyze and forecast three components of the Bank of Canada commodity price index (BCPI), namely non-energy commodity prices (BCNE), the West Texas Intermediate crude oil price (WTI), and other energy prices. In the paper, we present different methodologies to identify transitory and permanent components of movements in these prices. A structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model is used for real BCNE prices, a multiple structural-break technique is employed for real crude oil prices, and an errorcorrection model is constructed for real prices of other energy components. Then we use these transitory and permanent components to develop forecasting models. We assess our models’ performance in various aspects, and our main results indicate: (a) for real BCNE prices, most of the short-run variation is attributed to demand shocks, (b) the world economic activity and real U.S. dollar effective exchange rate explain much of the cyclical variation of real BCNE prices, (c) real crude oil prices have two structural breaks over the sample period, and their link with the world economic activity is strongest in the most recent regime, (d) real prices of other energy components are highly correlated with the U.S. economic activity, and they are co-integrated with real crude oil prices, (e) our models outperform benchmark models, namely a VAR model, autoregressive (AR) model and...
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...Fuel-and-energy Complex Ecologization Actions Among the FEC ecologization tasks, top priority is given to the following: • improvement of the quality of coal fired by TPP, gradual implementation of modern heat-and-power generation technologies, including the cogeneration ones, equipment of the FEC companies with efficient emission/ discharge control systems to trap (reduce) the contaminating agents released to atmosphere, etc.; • increase in efficiency in degassing of coal mines to minimize the risks of gas inflows in the underground mine zones, and take preventive actions against gas-triggered accidents in the zones; • prevention of inflammation in rock piles and dumps by covering them with inert materials, reclamation the sites etc.; • use of water from water reservoirs for eligible purposes only, and prevention of thermal and chemical pollution of the surface and underground water by means of significant reduction of thermally and chemically polluted discharges from industrial facilities through improvements of production technologies, water supply and wastewater purification systems using environmentally safe filters, adsorption materials, reagents; • implementation of modern water demineralization technologies to process highly mineralized mine water, and introduction of sound regulations and procedures as to discharges of slightly mineralized mine water in rivers and water reservoirs; prevent discharges of polluted drainage water saturated with...
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...OF MARKETING AND FINANCIAL BARRIERS FOR THE MANUFACTURERS OF TARGETED ENERGY EFFICIENCT PRODUCTS INTRODUCTION This report addresses the barrier that manufacturers are often distrustful of standards and labels, and their objections can delay ES&L efforts or result in weakening of standards. It is a proven fact that this manufacturer-related barrier is generic across the region, but must be dealt with in the context of each national economic and cultural setting. Most Asian countries regard ES&L programs as cost-effective ways to realize their energy efficiency goals, since they provide substantial electricity peak demand reduction and energy savings with attractive cost/benefit ratios. Such programs have proven to be effective for mitigating climate change in all countries in which they have been implemented. However, they are hindered by certain persistent barriers, which can be broadly classified into the following categories: Policy/regulatory; Institutional; Technical; Information and awareness; Market; and, Financial. To promote energy-efficiency improvements, action may be required at one or more levels -- from the lowest level of the consumer (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.) through the highest level of global agencies. But, barriers to the implementation of energy-efficiency improvements exist or can arise at all these levels. At the level of energy consumers, the barriers to energy-efficiency improvements are due to the ignorant, the poor and/or...
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...P141018 Introduction and Overview 1. What is Energy Efficiency? Energy Efficiency means “Delivering the same, with less (or more with the same). 2. Importance of Energy Efficiency - What does Energy Efficiency has to offer? • Limit demand growth • Increase energy security • Climate change mitigation • Additional non-energy benefits for economy and society By improving energy efficiency, cost of the energy system needed to power home or Institution or Industry can be reduced. Becoming more energy efficient is an important first step to reduce our impact on the environment. Energy efficiency is also a non-controversial issue, improving efficiency means encouraging innovation and technology, creating jobs, reducing our dependence on non-renewable resources, and saving money 3. Global Perspective OECD Countries OECD Countries through energy efficiency address the risks of climate change, an increasing number of countries, mainly from the OECD, have embarked on ambitious programmes, with energy efficiency often as the main pillar. Energy efficiency enables countries to alleviate the financial burden of oil imports on their balance of trade and also improves energy supply security [pic][pic] 4. Developing Countries In developing countries the energy efficiency enables a reduction in overall investmentinto energy sector and will help to make the best use of assets to improve the energy access. Improving efficiency in use of electricity has...
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...The 1973 Oil Crisis By Sarah Horton In October of 1973 Middle-eastern OPEC nations stopped exports to the US and other western nations. They meant to punish the western nations that supported Israel, their foe, in the Yom Kippur War, but they also realized the strong influence that they had on the world through oil. One of the many results of the embargo was higher oil prices all throughout the western world, particularly in America. The embargo forced America to consider many things about energy, such as the cost and supply, which up to 1973 no one had worried about (Spiegelman). In order to understand the main cause of the oil crisis one must first know the history of the region and the ArabIsraeli conflict. World War II a Zionist state, known as Israel, was created on 56% of the land that was formerly known as Palestine. This state served as a homeland for Jews. The local Arabs were enraged by the fact that the Palestinian land had been taken to create this state. They refused to acknowledge Israel as an independent state. The Arabs began to launch efforts to recapture the land that they felt was rightfully theirs. This created the Suez-Sinai War. The British and the French sided with the Israelis in order to punish Nasser for nationalizing the Suez Canal. The strong Israeli military forces quickly defeated the Arabs. The Arabs responded to this defeat by uniting. In 1967 Israel launched the Six-Day War, claiming much land. In 1973 Arab forces retaliated. On Yom...
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...address: MuhammadArslan73@gmail.com ABSTRACT People of Pakistan are facing a number of problems due to CNG load shedding. This study investigated the consequences of energy on routines of people and also on social and economic performance of people. Primary data has been collected by conducting video recorded interviews and comment based interviews from twin cities i.e. Islamabad and Rawalpindi of Pakistan. The sample of study includes students, housewives, businessmen and professional workers who are affecting by this CNG shortage. This study focuses on relationship between CNG shortage and its effect on daily routine life and performance of people. It also focuses on psychological issues as well as the economic issues that are caused due to this shortage. This study utilizes in depth semi structured interviews to conduct the qualitative study. N-Vivo 10 is used as tool of data analysis. The CNG shortage in Pakistan caused many critical issues like unemployment, decrease in export contracts and commodities prices are increasing due to this shortage. Less working hours, lack of social and family gathering, increase in work load, depression and anxiety are results caused by CNG shortage. It is concluded that CNG shortage has bad impact on people’s lives and on their overall performance. Keywords: Pakistan; CNG Shortage; Energy; N-Vivo; Commodities 1. INTRODUCTION 1. 1. Background of Study The price of international trade oil that took...
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...Term Paper Two In recent times, the supply and demand of oil has fluctuated. Prices for oil have skyrocketed to great lengths, as well as dropped to amount many have not seen in years. Currently, the price of a gallon of gas has been around two dollars and twenty five cents, much cheaper than a year ago when gas prices were inching to four dollars a gallon. With plummeting prices, many individuals who are involved in the oil industry have seen decreases in wok flows, and have faced numerous shutdowns and layoffs. Found in the New York Times by the Associated Press, there was a very well-written and interesting article regarding the supply and demand of the oil industry called: Cheaper Oil Buoys Consumers, Hammers Producers. In this chosen article, the author writes about how the effects of the supply and demand are playing a dampening roll on the economy. Although the consumers are enjoying the much cheaper prices, with the dollar per barrel falling, the economy takes a large hit of great financial loses. The article brilliantly express that in modern times, the supply of oil is defeating the need. U.S. oil production rose from 5 million barrels a day in 2008 to an estimated 9.3 barrels a day in 2015. That unexpected surge, coupled with OPEC’s unwillingness to cut production, left the world awash in oil and sank prices. (Associated Press). Although the said article spoke predominantly about the oil industry, it did have some interesting aspects that backed the issues...
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...to be one of the develop company all over the world. The possible negative effects of oil price hike in the Philippines are the steady increases in the price of fuel on the global market and because of the importance of fuel in the production, marketing, and especially to transportation of food products and the desire of every producer, consumers and to those people involve in using oil. And to that, it increases the price of fuels used for transportation and the oil to the market, then after too that it may also affects the price of foods that being sell to the market that have been undergo to a process transferring into different places. Lastly, the higher household energy bills can contribute to price oil price hike. Gas and electricity prices typically take a steer from the price of oil, because of energy providers are using oil to produce electricity. These are the reasons of continues increase of price of the oil in the Philippines are, first, because of “the interaction between oil demand and oil supply does not work in the way most people expect it would. Even if the price of oil rises, world oil production doesn’t increase by very...
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...Energy Conservation Plan Keenan Williams SCI 275 April 15, 2012 Sarah Franklin Energy Conservation Plan Energy is something that is a necessity for the human race to function. People are very ignorant when it comes to conserving energy, which in turn wastes what little non renewable resources remaining and becoming scarcer. A non renewable energy source is something that cannot be reproduced or grown; it comes from sources that can be completely depleted, such as fossil fuels, oils, and natural gases ("U.s. Energy Information Administration", ). When our non renewable sources start becoming harder to obtain, the price to use them goes up. The majority of the energy we use comes from non renewable sources. Energy is wasted daily basis. Leaving lights on during the day, leaving televisions on when no one is watching it, having multiple electronics plugged in to the wall instead of a surge protector, leaving the air conditioner running when no one is home, and doing laundry all throughout the day instead of doing it when the rates of electricity is lower are all ways that energy is wasted. A good way to stop the wasting of energy is to avoid those mentioned activities. These are just small things people can change in order to conserve energy, and if everyone would do it, it could make a big difference. The issue of energy conservation has both living and non living contributing factors. The biggest living contributing factor...
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...First microeconomic issues question that I pick would be Everyone’s gasoline problem. As we all know that the prices of the gasoline at the pump keeps fluctuate because gasoline prices related to crude oil prices. The crude oil prices make up 66 percent of the gasoline’s price and the rest of the percentage, around 34 percent would be distributed into some more costs, included taxes, and company’s profit. In order to deal with daily change of price of the gasoline, the 34 percent of the costs that they distributed usually stay stable, so by then it will be more accurate to reflect the oil price fluctuation. Oil prices affected by supply and demand as any other businesses related to supply and demand, also the price of the oil is related to commodity exchange based on the future oil price. As we know, the higher the demand on certain period of time, the higher the cost or the price of the oil/gasoline. The United States of America uses 20 percent of the world’s oil and two third of these is believe to be for transportation purposes. For future oil price, it is also depend on supply and demand in order to determine the price. If traders think the demand will be high, of course this will raise the price of the oil. There are few factors that cause the gasoline price to quickly rise and fall in a short period of time, included supply, demand, and competition as well as federal, state and local regulations. These policy makers will be the one that evaluate and choose the...
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...Gas Prices and the Economy The marketplace of supply and demand determines the price of fuel. If demand grows or if supply decreases, there will be an increase in pricing. On the flip side, if demand declines or if there is a surge in supply in the market, there will be a decrease in pricing. If a retailer in the market prices its gas too high without regard to competitors’ pricing, consumers will take their business to the competitor with lower prices. If the retailer loses enough business due to higher pricing, they will lower the prices to be more competitive in order to retain customers. Retailer competition affects gas pricing which can be seen by price differences on stretches of highway with multiple gas retailers. More choices generally mean more competition for the retailers. Even though many retailers carry the gasoline of major oil companies, they are independent dealers of the product and can set prices as they wish. The cost of foreign trade is contributes to the rising cost; however, many other factors contribute to the pricing of gasoline which drastically affects buyers and sellers in the marketplace. According to the Chevron Corporation, like agricultural products, such as wheat and corn, and precious metals, such as silver and gold, crude oil is traded on the world market. Recently, crude oil prices have risen dramatically, driven by rising global demand and political instability in several oil producing countries (“The Price of Fuel…”). Since crude...
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...has depended on the Middle East to purchase the crude oil to manufacture the gas needed to fuel our cars. (Stone, 2007) It was evident that there were issues during the years of 2006 and 2007 when we seen the biggest rise in gas at that time there was not much we could do we needed to purchase the gas to use for everyday functionality throughout the United States we seen here in the state of Florida (Jacksonville) particularly that the prices went from $2.10per gallon to an all time high of $3.06 this increase was not gradual it was almost overnight when this increase was a period just about a month. This tended to come from some events that occurred in the following countries Mexico, Iran, Iraq, Israel, India, and North Korea that have energy markets on edge and the crude oil prices were heavily elevated at that time. (Jacksonville Bussiness Jornal, 2006). When looking at recent information that has been collected on gasoline prices we tend to look at earlier month May 2011, Jacksonville Florida was getting near the $4.00 per gallon with that we then seen a drop in prices from $4.00 down to $3.85. Typically this is when the summer driving season is starting and the elasticity for fuel starts to rise and continues to do so along with that need for gas the prices rise along with it. This is the typical use of economic terms of “supply and demand.” You start to look at what goes into the production of gasoline the biggest necessity is Crude Oil this alone has a price averaging...
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