Placing a GPS device amounts to this standard.

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The Renewable Fuel Standard currently requires transportation fuel to contain certain amounts of renewables such as corn grain ethanol regardless of how high it pushes corn prices or how much weather conditions or tariffs on imported ethanol have reduced supplies.

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However, as time went on it has become harder to save and maintain a normal standard of living while paying on such drastic loan amounts.

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Under the old gold standard system, a currency could be converted into fixed amounts of gold and vice versa.

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The Federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) continues to force refiners to sell larger amounts of corn ethanol and other biofuels each year, regardless of weather, supply demand, or cost influences.

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The PowerShares Capital Management group, for example, has a whole family of exchange-trade funds based in standard indexes but with methodologies that allow for discretion in what securities are purchase, and in what amounts.

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