State government dealing with fast-rising natural gas and gasoline costs

State government dealing with fast-rising natural gas and gasoline costs (Montana Standard)
HELENA Like its citizens and businesses, the state of Montana is feeling the pinch of rising natural gas and gasoline prices, fiscal analysts told the Legislative Finance Committee on Friday.

200,000 flood-wrecked cars waiting to be cleared out of New Orleans (San Francisco Chronicle)
As electricity gets slowly switched back on and drinkable water starts to flow again, the city is turning to another Herculean labor -- the removal and scrapping of more than 200,000 waterlogged and abandoned cars. The corroding cars are strewn about...