Speed Up Harvesting with Mouse Tractor

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Posted on : 08-10-2009 | By : ichatmedia

Mouse Tractor is freely-available program that saves you from having to click over and over, which as we all know can get really boring when you’re harvesting large Farm Town fields.

Monthly Farm Town Users Still Rising

Despite competition from FarmVille, the number of people playing Farm Town every month is still going up and up. This is because of the social aspect and the new features that are being added by Slashkey constantly.

New Farm Town Cheat – Plowing Next To a River

It seems that field areas right next to a river can be plowed over and over in the same spot, increasing your experience points for every time you do it! This is worth taking advantage of before the developers remove the bug.

All About Farm Town Trees

Trees are a common gift from one farmer to another, and they’re a great source of coins over a slightly longer period than crops. Also, note that the fruit that grow on trees never, ever go bad, so you can forget about them for as long as you like, and still be able to harvest them.

Source: http://www.farmtownguide.com

Farm Bill a Missed Opportunity

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

The 2008 Farm Bill to be voted on by the House and Senate this week includes incremental gains for conservation,…

NOAA Reports Coastal Waters Show Decline in Contaminants: Concerns Remain with Continuing Chemical Inputs

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

NOAA scientists today released a 20-year study showing that environmental laws enacted in the 1970s are having a positive effect…

Cal-Water wins $49.7 million in gasoline-additive settlement

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

WATER COMPANY WINS $49.7 MILLION IN SETTLEMENTA San Jose-based water company will receive $49.7 million as part of a national…

UK: Road policy oil assumptions attacked

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

The government’s roads policy has been labelled “absurd” after it emerged that decisions on road building and pay-as-you-drive schemes over the next decade will based on an oil price of no more than $70 a barrel.


New traffic and congestion forecasts, which are integral to government road policies, are based on an oil price of $65 a barrel in 2010, rising to $68 a barrel in 2015 and $70 a barrel in 2020, the Department for Transport has revealed.

They’re wrong about oil, by George

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia


Rip up your textbooks, the doubling of oil prices has little to do with China’s appetite


Just as the credit crunch seemed to be passing, at least in the US, another and much more ominous financial crisis has broken out. The escalation of oil prices, which this week reached a previously unthinkable $130 a barrel (with predictions of $150 and $200 soon to come), threatens to do far more damage to the world economy than the credit crunch.


Instead of just causing a brief recession, the oil and commodity boom threatens a prolonged period of global “stagflation”, the lethal combination of high inflation and economic stagnation last seen in the world economy in the 1970s and early 1980s. This would be a disaster far more momentous than the repossession of a few million homes or collapse of a couple of banks.

Airlines fly by the seat of their pants

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

American Airlines yesterday appeared to cross the Rubicon, asking its passengers to pay $15 (£7.60) to check in a bag when they arrive at the airport. What will be its next gambit? Perhaps, a $5 charge for using your laptop inflight, pay-per-view movies and coin-operated lavatories. AMR, the airline’s parent announced yesterday that its new baggage fee, plus a whole raft of other service charges (flying your pet poodle will cost you more) would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in extra revenue.


How long will that keep the creditors at bay? For AMR and every other airline operator the soaring cost of jet fuel has exposed a fatal weakness for an industry that has been riding for years on a wing and a prayer.

EU plan could lead to power blackouts

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

Energy providers have begun a fierce lobbying campaign against new plans by the European Commission to clamp down on industrial pollution, saying they could cause the premature closure of a quarter of Britain’s electricity generation capacity and leave the country struggling to keep its lights on.


David Porter, the head of the Association of Electricity Producers (AEP), has written to the Business Secretary, John Hutton, to argue against the imposition of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), which tightens existing limits on emissions of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen.

BP natgas exec says prices ‘need’ to stay high

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A senior executive for BP Energy North America said Wednesday natural gas prices need to remain in their current range near $11 per million British thermal units in order to support necessary investment in infrastructure and promote further development.


Brian Frank, president of BP North America Gas and Power, told participants at GasMart on Wednesday that the industry is facing enormous challenges as current market dynamics show unprecedented commodity values, U.S. dollar weakness and relatively unstable financial markets.

The Real Reason Behind Record High Oil Prices – Part 2

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Posted on : 22-05-2008 | By : ichatmedia

…The hoax of Peak Oil—namely the argument that the oil production has hit the point where more than half all reserves have been used and the world is on the downslope of oil at cheap price and abundant quantity—has enabled this costly fraud to continue since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 with the help of key banks, oil traders and big oil majors. Washington is trying to shift blame, as always, to Arab OPEC producers. The problem is not a lack of crude oil supply. In fact the world is in over-supply now. Yet the price climbs relentlessly higher. Why? The answer lies in what are clearly deliberate US government policies that permit the unbridled oil price manipulations.