The US Armed Forces continue to make progress in reducing energy consumption and advancing alternative power sources.

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The corporate income tax would be replaced with an 8.5% border adjustable business consumption tax and the alternative minimum tax (AMT) and the estate tax would be repealed.

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By this alternative measure, consumption fell as a share of GDP until 2008, but started growing strongly thereafter.

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The digital content containers offered by aggregators like Flipboard and Zite are much more compelling than any single source alternative and fit far better with the nature of content consumption on the Web that is forming itself around streams.

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President Bush, in his State of the Union address this year, announced an initiative to cut U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent over the next 10 years through a combination of alternative fuels and more efficient automobiles.

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High prices in oil, for example, drive down consumption, make the drilling of more difficult wells worthwhile and stimulate investment in alternative energy.

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