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Kidane unfurls a map of the region upon which is printed rail and road routes, and the costs associated with each port and passage. The map was printed in 2006, so the printed prices are now out of date. But Kidane has bigger problems. As food and fuel prices rise, suppliers have begun defaulting on their contracts; they are either unable to provide goods at a previously agreed price because input costs have increased, or unwilling to sell food at the old rate now that others will pay more. "We used to have sufficient stock - four months, five months...
...vehicles for a decade - or as GEM President Rick Kapser has said, "back when gas was a $1.25 a gallon." GEMs may look a bit like golf carts - and they may occasionally be used as golf carts as well - but they are real, street-legal vehicles, drivable on any road with a speed limit of 35 mph or less. Their success provides a good window into the growth of the electric car market - unlike Chrysler's other brands, GEM is profitable, selling about 37,000 cars over the past decade, ranging from $7,000 bare-bones 2-seaters to larger...
...carbon emissions come from cars and trucks - but in an era of ever-increasing gas prices, it would help your wallet as well. Unfortunately, the auto industry has consistently failed to build and sell a truly marketable electric car. They were either too expensive or too weak on the road - or too often both; and back in those halcyon days when our chief climate fear was a new ice age, low gas prices made electric cars unnecessary...
...been reading the paper and watching the tube, trying to keep up-to-date on the flood zones, evacuation orders, and road closures (including portions of Interstate 80); looking at wrenching images of flood scenes near and far: a woman crying on her Des Moines doorstep as she's told to evacuate; a couple row-boating through their mobile home park in Altoona; an Iowa City police officer wading through water with a little boy on his shoulders; an astonishing aerial view of downtown Cedar Rapids where downtown buildings look like rafts in an ocean. But mostly, my fellow sandbaggers...
...meantime, farmers are scrambling to find water anywhere they can. Some are cleaning the moss out of old wells, or drilling new ones. Others are bargaining with neighbors to give up on "road crops" such as tomatoes and sell their water to desperate owners of permanent crops like almond trees and grape vines. Most are bracing for the worst: "I'm sweating it," says almond farmer Blackburn. "I've never been down this road before, but we're going to take a hit financially. If this drought continues, we'll lose...