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Fisker plans to use $169.3 million from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program for engineering-integration costs as it works with suppliers to complete the Karma. However, the second stage includes a $359.36 million loan tied to developing and manufacturing a less expensive Fisker hybrid in the U.S., which has been dubbed Project Nina. His new company expects to build between 75,000 to 100,000 of these highly efficient vehicles starting in late 2012; the second-generation Fisker will be a relative bargain, with a price tag around $40,000. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
True, the inconvenience of fewer dispensers is small, but so is the environmental impact. And this decision promotes an attitude that treats needless burdens as essential elements of conservation: trayless dining, reusable mugs, “efficient” showerheads that just spray less water...
Unfortunately, environmentalists’ definition of “waste” is all-inclusive. If you use less of something after it becomes less convenient, you must have been using too much of it before. One example is Kirkland House, which has only a few dispensers in the entire dining hall and whose students, miraculously, use fewer napkins. The administration calls this phenomenon a decrease in waste. But students use fewer napkins because fewer napkins are available; we don’t know for certain that the change eliminated superfluous napkins...
Global warming is less dire than some scientists predict, and people have less of an effect on it than they think. Must we eat without trays to avoid impeding doom? No. Motel 6 can still leave the lights on for you. And you can take that extra napkin...
...Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza, who says his organization provided the U.N. fact-finding team with hundreds of documents. "We were familiar with attempts by Israel to repress the report and ... we are familiar with the position of the United States, which is more or less in line with Israel ... But [this] came from the Palestinian Authority ... This is not acceptable." (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...