Golf Carts Going Off Course to Save on Gas
Region: United States
Posted by findingDulcinea Staff With gas topping $4 per gallon, drivers across the United States are turning their golf carts into all-purpose vehicles. Richard Fisher, an 82-year-old resident of Summitville, Ind., uses ... more
Views: 1687Americans Spending Less Time Outside
Region: United States
Posted by Liz Colville to FindingDulcinea A general decline in visitor attendance at national parks suggests that Americans are turning into a nation of indoorsmen. In 2007, attendance at Yosemite National Park was 11 pe... more
Views: 1100Extinction Looms for American Malls
Region: Colorado
Posted by FindingDulcinea Staff Too many malls and too few people willing to drive are making malls a dying species. Shopping malls seemingly shot up at almost every highway exit during the 1990s. Today, consumers a... more
Views: 1232German boy sets on fire to his BMW car to protest hike in crude oil
Region: GermanyAn unemployed German sets his car on fire in front of convention centre at Frankfurt, Germany. He was protesting against high crude oil prices. The 30 years old, German parked his car in the lawn of the center ... more
Views: 1609Speculation Vs Demand: Which to Blame for Crude Price
Region: Saudi ArabiaIn an unusual conference of oil producers and consumers held at Jeddah on 22nd June’08, courtesy King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, India arrayed with the countries that challenge the US diagnosis as to the cause of sudd... more
Views: 1625Saudi Arab to Quell Oil Fire
Region: IndiaSince the start of the millennium, the oil prices have soared five folds and have been hovering between $130-$140 this month, derailing many developing economies like India apart from hurting US where the oil consu... more
Views: 1153Kazaks Struggle With Oil and Food Prices
Region: Kazakhstan
Government’s attempt to hold fuel prices down may be too little, too late. By Daur Dosybiev in Almaty (RCA No. 546, 30-May-08) A new ban on exports of petroleum products is designed to stabilise the dom... more
Views: 1802Southeast Asia: Coping with the Rice and Food Crisis
Region: Philippines
by Mong Palatino Food prices continue to rise in the world market. People are concerned about the soaring cost of rice, which is the staple food in the Southeast Asian region and in many parts of the world. Gov... more
Views: 4172Wall Street Takes A Nose-Dive on Fed Minutes, Oil Prices
Region: United States
According to news reports, Wall Street took a nose-dive on the Fed's outlook for the rest of 2008. And record crude oil prices hovering near $130 a barrel was not much of a boost either. The big three indexe... more
Views: 1616China Exports Inflation To U.S.
Region: United States
According to an article by Jim Mubak on MSN Money, the Chinese are exporting inflation to the U.S. And that's not all that funny! For the last decade or so, the U.S. was riding the wave of the Chinese economic boom. The b... more
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