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July 28, 2012

White House to Host Talk on Advanced Autos?

Filed under: Automotive — Winson @ 7:33 AM

The White House (Washington) is hosting a meeting on the future of advanced automobiles in the month of June 2012. Previously or some weeks before it discussed and settled the most significant rise in fuel efficiency standards in the nation’s history.

The Council of White House on Quality of Environment is holding a three-hour discussion or meeting in June 2012 with some of the persons or analysts such as auto executives, environmentalists and government officials which is titled as a “Advanced Vehicles, Driving Growth.”

The idea of discussion comes just weeks before the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Environmental Protection Agency are to finalize the 2017-2025 fuel economy regulations, doubling current requirements to 54.5 mpg.

In last summer, the administration of Obama won the support of most automakers, including Detroit’s Big Three, for the 2017-2025 rules that will cost the industry $157.3 billion and add about $2,000 to the price of an average car. But it will save drivers $1.7 trillion at the pump.

The goal of administration is to highlight as government and industry working together. Here at this time Obama administration is asking requests for changes in the rules that they made, especially from German automakers who think they are unfairly aligned toward U.S. automakers.

The main intention of ”administration is bringing together diverse auto-sector stakeholders at a White House event to celebrate remarkable resurgence of the auto industry and spotlight leaders who represent President Obama’s vision of out-innovating and out-manufacturing the rest of the world.”

According to the White House CEO spokeswoman, ‘If auto manufacturers, the United Auto Workers, states and environmental stakeholders, the Administration work together, they can double the fuel efficiency of cars and light duty trucks by 2025, which automatically save consumers $1.7 trillion at the pump, and assist in our economic competitiveness and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.” (more…)

July 18, 2012

Low Cost Monitoring Facilities for High Profits

Filed under: 2012,Technology — Winson @ 11:44 AM

monitoring serviceFor any online business, the website is important. An active website generates more revenue. Customer relationship is important to every business, for online businesses website performance builds satisfied relationship between visitors and websites promoters. Online business performance is directly impacted by performance of the website.

Website troubles are painful to visitors in getting required information. Website failures like email system or file transfer protocol affect customer relationship with loyal customers. They directly impact clients’ relationship with unsatisfied returns. Those provide the negative revenues to business.

When the loyalty to customer is lost because of inefficient website services, the customers never come back to the website easily. These cause huge losses to businesses. But website monitoring is important in protecting the relationship with active performance of website to show the searched results.

Installing website monitoring programs is cheap; however it provides huge profits to businesses. Website monitoring enables all applications to prevent the website errors.

Monitoring services are not expensive but they lead to huge profits to businesses with live website performance at any time. (more…)

March 31, 2012

Thousands of Marijuana Plants Found in South West Washington

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: — Winson @ 5:42 AM

Washington law enforcement found thousands of marijuana plants worth millions of dollars on August 22nd. The team which includes Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the US Forest and Washington State Patrol’s marijuana eradication team successfully removed around 25,000 marijuana plants from the mountain area of Columbia county.

According to the officials, the seize has been stated as the biggest grow eradicated this year in Washington State. They are estimating that these plants will worth $25million on the streets.

The next bust was taken place in Tucannon Valley in the Columbia county, where two suspects armed with hand guns were arrested and were charged under the possession of firearms and manufacturing of marijuana. Around 2300 plants are found in the bust with an estimated street value of $2.3 million.

The third incident happened in Robinette Mountain in Columbia County on July 26th. Even though there are no suspects found around 6,800 plants were removed, which accounts for $6.8 million.

Not only these there are many cases which are found related to these marijuana possession and trafficking. The number of the smugglers are increasing with the increase in the drug use among different group of people. Either directly or indirectly these people only drag some innocent people for small drug possessions offering them huge amount of money. Strict laws implemented even for small drug possession seems to be helpful.

Alcohol Consumption Declined in UK, Far Lower than 2004

Filed under: Health — Tags: — Winson @ 3:03 AM

The latest annual addition of British Beer and Pub Association’s, published that the alcohol consumption in UK for the year 2010, remained lower than it was six years ago, with the consumption continuing to flat line.

The report showed the statistics of UK alcohol consumption, where there was a small 0.6% rise in alcohol consumption per head in 2010. The drinking levels are still 11% lower than they were in 2004. It also showed that the UK ranks below the European average in terms of consumption.

However, other reports are quite contrary to the above report. They are raising the concerns about the UK’s approach to the industry. Britons are still paying high taxes on alcohol when compared with the neighboring countries. British alcohol taxes are now the second highest in the Europe on beer and wine, and 4th highest on spirits.

Also UK stats are eight times higher than France and 11 times higher than Germany. Apart from these the resources also found that the alcohol consumption per head is lower than that of 2004.

According to the experts, the rise in the percentage of taxes is due to the 35% rise in the beer taxes in the past three years.

They also added saying that the number of people who are drinking above health guidelines has been falling from many years and the industry is also investing reasonable amount of funds for conducting anti-drinking campaigns, to create awareness among the drinkers about the harmful effects of alcohol consumption.

March 17, 2012

Hyundai and Kia Motors Emerged as Top Performers for 2011 in US Auto Industry

Filed under: Automobile — Tags: — Winson @ 12:48 AM

US auto sales for 2011 revealed that Hyundai and Kia motors were the top performers in overall car sales in US. The consumer auto data showed top performance scorecard of Hyundai and Kia motors for 2011. Japanese Honda and Toyota motors have received the second place.

For Hyundai, in US, Elanta model performed well for 2011 which was selected as the “ North American car of the year (2011)”.

According to the Truecar.com reports, Hyundai and Kia motors due to their market performance scorecard have scored the first place. They have considered the sales growth of all brands, their market share and the brand loyalty of their customers.

Truecar.com said, Hyundai motors is the top 5th car manufacturer in the world. They have received “A-plus” rating for eight categories. Volkswagen and Volvo car manufacturers have received “A” rating to settle down in the second place.

The online performance was also considered in this rating. The online sales of Hyundai and Kia motors have managed to be more than 1.13 million units for 2011 which is the 26.5% more than the last year sales. Both have increased their sales growth with limited unnecessary incentives. (more…)

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