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  • A.C. Transit And Bart
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    A main source of transportation is the car. People use cars to get around instead of catching public transportation. Even though public transportation like, A.C. Transit and BART, can be very convenient and sometimes cheap. The main problem about having a car is you have to pay for your gas for your own car. Right now gas prices are tremendously high right now in the Bay Area. If gas prices are not lowered back down to $1.05 in the Bay Area, people will start taking BART and AC. Transit, and any...
  • High Gas Prices
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    Everyone wants appliances such as toasters, microwaves and fridges to be cheap even though they are rich, but what about the poor people or so called middle class. What will they do if the prices are too high to afford Petroleum is something that we all need to go from place to place, anyways most of us do; four to five years ago, when I first came to Canada, the gas prices were quite low, but in the past 2-3 years, it is still increasing up to date. Prices of toasters and petroleum etc shouldnt...
  • Deregulation Of The Natural Gas Industry
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    The Deregulation of the Natural Gas Industry The main objective of my paper is to discuss the key points surrounding the deregulation of the natural gas industry. I will lead into this discussion by explaining how the industry performed during a period of regulation and what transpired forcing a change to deregulate. By definition, deregulation is the de-emphasis of governmental oversight of activities in the private sector (Understanding Deregulation, p. 4). It was believed that regulation, whi...
  • Gas Prices And Production
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    Cause and Effects on Today's Rising Gas Prices Natural gas is not a renewable resource, since there is a fixed amount of it trapped in the Earth. However, many people carry the misconception that there is a very limited amount of natural gas, and that we may use all of it up. This isn t true. The gas shortages of the 1970's were prompted by the government's lack of faith in the industry's ability to discover and develop new reserves, not by lack of gas supply. The unfortunate impression left by ...
  • Recent Gas Price
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    Gas prices are up over 40 cents a gallon from this time last year (Stefano va). What impacts will that have on the overall economy A recent USA Today poll showed that 55 percent of people who make under $20,000 a year consider gas hikes a financial hardship. Only 30 percent of people who make $50,000 a year called the increases a hardship (Regan). If the recent gas price increases reflect the state of the economy in the late 1970's, with lines at the pump and inflation, do not worry too much. Th...
  • Increasing Gas Prices
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    Fuel Wars A response to the increasing gas prices Over the past two years, it has been said that gas prices would begin to rise in 1999. Immediately, this news grasped the attention of the business sector and public. Both spent their time devising a plan, on how to keep the prices low, but the time has come for these plans to begin working. The fuel prices have increased dramatically and the economy is now starting to feel the effect. Around the world, the increase of the price of crude oil has ...
  • Cars Use Gas A Lot
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    Why Are Gasoline Prices Going Up So High? If everyone else in the world is paying a lot more for gas, why shouldn " americans? Take your average spoiled American who blames the Arabs for raising the gas prices unfairly in order to make a bigger profit. It's true, gas prices have gone up by a lot in the last few months, but is that unfair? Prices still are a lot higher in Canada, Europe and just about any other developed nation, according to Mike Royko in the May 2, 1996 issue of the Chicago Trib...
  • Supply And Demand For Natural Gas
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    Analysis Paper 1 The EIA predicted Midwestern Illinois families to be spending as much as 40% more on heating this year compared to last year because of higher natural gas prices. The increase in price is largely due to the reduction of natural gas supplied. In the short run, supply and demand for natural gas is relatively inelastic. The supply is inelastic because the quantity of known natural gas reserves and the capacity for natural gas extraction can not be changed in a short amount of time....
  • New Proposed Fertilizer Pricing Policy Clubs Units
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    FERTILIZER PRICING POLICY THE CURRENT FERTILIZER PRICING POLICY OF 2003-2004 PLUGS LOOPHOLES AS EXPLAINED BELOW: We did not expect the budget to take a bold measure like trying to increase the farm gate price of urea just a couple of years before the general elections-Unlike all expectations from the budget which was more from the revised retention pricing norms for manufacturers, the finance minister proposed an increase of Rs 240 per tonne in the farm gate prices of urea and Rs 200/ tonne for ...

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