Japan Industrial Production Unexpectedly Slips (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

Japan Industrial Production Unexpectedly Slips (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

Japan Industrial Production Unexpectedly Slips (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's industrial production unexpectedly fell from a record as companies brace for a slowdown in overseas demand. Factory output dropped a seasonally adjusted 0.9 percent in July from a month earlier, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in Tokyo today.

L.I. Bio-Diesel Plant Converts Frying Oil Into Car Fuel (WNBC)
BOHEMIA, L.I. -- A Long Island company is taking another step to get the United States off foreign oil. North American Bio-Fuels of Bohemia opened the first plant on Long Island that converts restaurant grease and frying oil into fuel for automobiles.

Book: Horse-and-buggy Mennonites thrive (Boston Globe)

Book: Horse-and-buggy Mennonites thrive (Boston Globe)

Book: Horse-and-buggy Mennonites thrive (Boston Globe)
In this bucolic corner of Lancaster County, Allen Hoover can use some modern conveniences approved by his church to help make his machine shop run smoothly: a telephone, a word processor and even a fax machine. But if Hoover needs to travel, driving a car is out of the question. His only options are hopping on a bicycle or hitching ...

Location: (Sunday Times)
WITH the price of petrol rising and little indication that the crude oil price will fall substantially in the foreseeable future, the search is on for alternative ways of powering our beloved automobiles.