Airlines find themselves in a difficult situation, having to juggle high gasoline prices with low pricing power given the weak state of consumption in a fragile economic environment.
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There is a limit to how much you can or should do by way of clumsy state control over consumption of fat or any other nutrients that a current fad happens to label as bad.
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It accounts for 80% of the power produced in the state and one-third of the state's consumption--all with no carbon dioxide and at a low price.
The state of the ocean today should be the tipping point that wakes us up from the trance of consumption that we haven lulled into complacency with, and which sends us into a new era of material science, bio and ocean degradability, and new re-use technologies.
Working through grantees, it has had significant impact on promoting adoption of state and federal vehicle efficiency standards, more stringent residential and commercial building codes to reduce energy consumption, and development of renewable energy technology.
Older Chinese grew up in a society where many of their consumption choices were dictated by the state or by their workplace.
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In fact, the rate at which the economy can grow will be hampered by a reduced willingness of banks to lend, a reduced amount of spending by federal, state and local governments, reduced consumption from many still-financially-overstretched American citizens who also face elevated gas prices, and from a reduced willingness of businesses to invest in the face of uncertainty regarding future tax and regulatory policies.
It is consumption taxes which carry the heavy load of funding the welfare state, not those taxes on income, companies or capital.
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Presumably, that would be because the government of Israel has drawn them so as to define existential threats to the state, not simply as a matter of rhetorical posturing intended mostly for domestic political consumption.
But as China's economy continues to grow, so does the country's energy consumption, and with it the scale of the challenge that the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) faces.
There was a New Deal case of a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption: the Feds claimed the right to restrict this as his non-consumption, as a result of growing his own, of out of state wheat meant that this was inter-state commerce.
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In a Democrat-dominated state, the Clinton-Gore message, chiming with the goal of reducing California's oil consumption by 25% in ten years, rings in tune with a culture of environmental activism.
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.
Reducing America's petrol consumption by 20% by 2017, a target he announced in the state-of-the-union address, would certainly diminish the country's dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but the way he plans to go about it may not be either efficient or clean.
Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross investment decreased 0.1 percent, compared with a decrease of 1.0 percent.
California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.
On Thursday, state-run news agency Xinhua reported that the authorities have now set a target designed to curb the growing consumption of energy, and coal in particular.
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