Alternative fuels are cheap, but there's a hitch (Baltimore Sun) bi2692122 Regulations on vegetable fuel stymie plans for greener travel With fuel prices soaring, Mark Nagurney thought he had figured out a clever way to drive free - and save the Earth at the same time. The 49-year-old Laurel physicist one of thousands nationally who have converted diesel and trucks to run on straight vegetable oil

High-Octane Cars Go Electric to Fight Rising Gas Prices (Fox News) bi2692122 If you think electric are little more than golf carts on the go, think again. For about $25,000 you can convert your Porsche, Lamborghini or gas-guzzling SUV a fully electric vehicle

'Fast Money' Recap: Cheap Chesapeake? (TheStreet.com) bi2692122 The team says would be nice we had cheap oil, but that's not going to happen. In that light, Chesapeake, Petrohawk get a nod

The Weekend Dieter: Fast food doesn't have to be fattening food (Fort Worth S bi2692122 By STEPHANIE ALLMON Lately, the Weekend Dieter has become the Cheap Dieter. For the past few weeks, as I?ve tried to adapt to the rising cost of food and, well, everything else, I?ve been on the hunt for satisfying meals that are waistline-friendly and pocketbook-friendly. The search has taken me to many a "fast-casual" restaurant for lunch ? not places drive-throughs, where they ask ..

Prepare Cheap and Healthy Food With Minimal Resources [Cooking] (Lifehacker) bi2692122 You already know that a healthy home cooked meal better than prepackaged and fast food, but when comes to the double crunch of money and time how do you find room for healthy cooking? Frugal..

Plastics also hit by fast rising petroleum costs (The Daily & Sunday Review) bi2692122 Don Telesca knows plastic doesn?t mean cheap anymore

Cheap Eats: How to Find Healthy Food During Tough Economic Times (Newswise) bi2692122 Are you having a hard time stretching your grocery dollars during the current economic downturn? You're not alone. But before you stop buying fresh fruit, meat, vegetables and other items often perceived as costing a lot, check out these tips from a University of Michigan Health System dietitian. Holly Scherer, R.D., says you don't have to switch to a diet of potato chips, mac and cheese, and ..

Fast-track construction start fall appears less likely, but site, infras bi2692122 If the tone of the discussion at Monday's Ice Arena Advisory Committee any indication, appears that the actual construction of a new arena Crookston won't commence May of 2009

Embroidered T-shirt. Price: £4. Cost: Misery (BBC News) bi2692122 As Primark exposed over the use of child labour the finishing of cheap clothes, shouldn't shoppers shoulder some of the blame too?..

MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first (Mac Daily News) bi2692122 "I asked some behavioral economists [why the $199 starting price for Apple's iPhone 3G causing such excitement], and the answer seems to be that we have no easy way to judge the value of the things we buy, and we especially have no fast and sure way to value the utility we would get from the purchase

Sedona scores high safety marks, long warranty (USA Today) bi2692122 You gotta wonder about any automaker going after a piece of the minivan market

'08 Impreza WRX quick, but look at (USA Today) bi2692122 Subaru has a couple of models that can snatch the pants off some presumably higher-performance vehicles. One of those pants-yankers the 2008 Impreza WRX. It's a turbocharged, high-power version of the plain, ol' Impreza, a small four-door

Consumer ethics (BBC News) bi2692122 Western shoppers and exploited Indian child labour..

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