In the past couple of years, boat owners Erick Kelesceny, John Egizi, and Todd Jessup kept on filling up their boats' gas tanks like they always had, with unleaded fuel. What they didn't realize was that, since at least 2006, the big oil companies had been taking a chemical called methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) out of the gas mix and replacing it with ethanol. Both substances increase oxygen content in gas, which gives it a higher octane, but ethanol was considered more environmentally
Beginning Monday, Sun-Sentinel and WSFL-TV employees will get a little payback for driving on company time.
The ever-observant and hyper-vigilant management team has noticed that gas prices have gone down recently. So they're cutting the mileage rate from 42 to 40 cents.
Now that ought to help bring down that $13 billion in Tribune Co. debt to manageable levels! While two cents isn't going to make much of a difference in anybody's life, the source who sent me the
Palm Beach County is running so smoothly these days, what it really needs is a taste of Iraqi-style contracting. Private companies rake in billions of dollars supporting the military operations in that stunningly successful war, so why shouldn't they also earn a buck or two at home?
That's where Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) comes in. The Houston-based company is a former subsidiary of Halliburton. When Halliburton's ex-CEO, Dick Cheney, was in the White House, KBR was winning multibillion-dollar
