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• Are you math-o-phobic? Here’s some good news

  Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:09:49 +0000

  I’ve always hated math. Then they invented the calculator (yes, I’m that old). And for me and millions of other users that amazing gadget provided the first step into the wonderfully digitized world we live in today. I still hate math, but a lot of this type of automation has made life simpler and helps me make fewer mistakes.

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• Expected Adverse Climate Changes Causes Delay in Canada to US Crude Oil Pipeline

  Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:38:39 +0000

  The U.S. State Department has extended its review of the Alberta, Canada-to-Texas crude oil pipeline in order to give the U.S. federal government agencies more time to make comments and produce a final environmental impact report.

  Construction on $7-billion TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline may be delayed by up to six weeks. The Keystone XL is an extension to an existing TransCanada pipeline that stretches from Alberta to the U.S. Midwest and Cushing, Oklahoma.

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• The Fleet Manager’s dilemma – solved

  Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:19:37 +0000

  There’s really nothing very fun about managing a fleet fuel budget. Nothing simple about figuring out where all of last year’s fuel dollars actually went. There’s the stack of receipts and the pages of invoices and a few spreadsheets that try to summarize it all. But there’s a lot those papers can’t tell you.

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• The irony of marking World Oceans Day

  Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:21:54 +0000

  The word irony – like our oceans – is often abused. A great example of the correct application of the word, however, is “World Oceans Day”. Now already three years old, the first time World Oceans Day received any attention was right after the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. How’s that for irony?

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• Major Fuel Spill: could it happen to you?

  Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:43:27 +0000

  Unless you’ve been living on an island with Gilligan and the Skipper you’ve probably heard about the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. An explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010 killed eleven workers and is currently spewing about more than 18,000 barrels of oil per day into gulf waters. The full extent of the damage won’t be known for a long time and the repercussions will be enormous. But what can businesses like ours learn from this?

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