That equates to nine million tonnes of avoidable excess fuel and more than 28 million tonnes of CO2.

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The plan called for, among other things, logging healthy trees to pay for the gritty work of culling excess fuel from crowded forests.

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How many excess thousands of gallons of fuel have been spent powering tractors across fields to spray and till?

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As stockmarkets rally on a belief that the central bank has acted pre-emptively and quashed any prospect of inflation, looser financial conditions could fuel the very excess demand that the Fed is trying to reign in.

ECONOMIST: Monetary policy isn��t getting any easier

It is building a facility in South Carolina to transform excess weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors.

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If not for the excess liquidity created, there would not have been sufficient fuel to distort the housing market and ultimately the financial system.

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Worried that all that pent-up credit would fuel reckless lending or inflation, the Fed simply doubled the reserve requirement, transforming excess reserves into mandatory ones.

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