Some good news on the environment front. Ontario announced today that all gasoline sold in the province must contain 5% ethanol by 2007. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have recently introduced similar laws requiring 10% and 7.5% respectively. Ethanol is becoming more common in fuel options lately... it's made by refining alcohol produced by wheat, straw and …
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Some breaking news from the BBC reports that two major Kurdish political parties and a few others are calling for a delay of the Election originally schedule on January 30. This is in addition to the threatened boycott by Sunni Arab parties. I guess we'll find out more in the coming days and weeks before …
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Update 1The BBC has more on the various countries involved in the dispute. Here's the BBC Report. --- Things took a turn for the worse today in the ongoing, and varied, trade wars between various countries and the US. The WTO has ruled that some US anti-dumping laws (the Byrd Amendment in particular) are illegal. …
