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Posted a 29 percent drop in on you will profit the budget airline blames higher fuel costs cabin crew strikes and fears the competition says its also affected by the grounding of boeing 737 max which is considered more fuel efficient. now the morning shave is big business for the razor blade industry consumers worldwide forked out 3 and a half $1000000000.00 on blades last year is just one problem sales are on the decline there are several reasons for this bid it at the moment and with western s...

Government, these obama standards have? >> remember, these were enacted when gm and chrysler had filed for bankruptcy so the government had the car companies where they wanted them. and they enacted these and since theyve enacted these, fuel cars have become more fuel efficient. would they have without government standards? im no the so sure. detroit is all about the bottom line. thats the most important thing. >> so detroits more interested in selling cars at a lower price and letting the consu...

Reason people are ditching their hybrids and their suvs instead theyre using. 45% of people traded in a hybrid. suvs are becoming much more fuel efficient. smaller models they are the most popular. so john were not seeing the return to prerecession gas-guzzlers. but were seeing that return to suvs. >> you know suvs are practical. they take the whole family. youre obsessed with the hybrids being slow. you can go faster in a hybrid. >> every time im behind a prius, it doesnt move. mounting quest...

People trading in a hybrid bought another one. the silver lining here is that new suvs are becoming more fuel efficient. the little bit of ironic twist i bring you on this day though is that its earth day. happy earth day everybody. theyre trading in their hybrids for sort of gas guzzlers. >> on earth day, that is an interesting proposition. thanks so much alison. its only 19 months to the presidential election. candidates are busy building up their bank accounts. why are white house hopefuls ...

Or theres something in the senate that has to do with a fund for coal miners who are owed payments. they want to use this for that. republicans previously proposed to use this to repeal the medical device task. >> the underlying thing is we havent raised the gas tax. that strikes me as -- there are arguments against the gas tax and arguments on distributional equity in terms of who gets hit by a gas tax. that, to me, is the problem. >> right. so given we havent raised the gas tax in 21 years, it...

Extend unemployment benefits or something in the senate having to do with a fund for coalminers who are owed payments. republicans proposed to use this to repeal the medical device tax. >> the big thing here, dehavent raised he gas tax. that strikes me -- their their arguments against the gas tax and who gets hit bay gas tax, but thats the problem. given that we havent raised the gas tax in 20 years, that means its fallen by 39% in real terms and cars have gotten more fuel efficient. so the gas ...

Levels have gone down about 40% since 2005. >> nitrogen deox side is a smog that comes from vehicles and cole burning power plants. it forms the ozone. >> why is the air getting better even though the number of cars on the roads have increased? >> the cars are becoming more fuel efficient. >> and the power plant now scrub most of the emotions out before they can get to our lungs. in 2012 about 3.7 million people from around the world died from effects of outside air pollution. the people whose s...

Fuel efficient, and cheaper than their full-sized peers. >> theyre really a lot of fun. on the inside you feel like youre in a full suv. >> reporter: while the compact suvs may look entirely new to americans, theyre already all the rage overseas in china and india. globally smaller suvs account for about 2.7 million in annual sales. more than 1 million in asia. 1 million in europe. and just 250,000 in the u.s. analysts say its now those foreign markets which are also growing much faster than our...

Shifts. 24 hours a day, churning out some of the most high-tech, fuel-efficient, high performance cars in the world. thats a story of american ingenuity, american grit. everybody has a right to be proud of it. today, we are taking the next step. heavy duty trucks account for just 4% of all the vehicles on the highway. i know when youre driving sometimes, it feels like it is more. but there are only 4% of all the vehicles. they are responsible for about 20% of carbon pollution in the tran transpo...

Navy ba serks just outside the city. heres what went on. >> we do testing and modelling, and then it turns into a fleet. >> he is talking about the naval service warfare center outside washington. a remarkable installation where scientists design, build and test ship prototypes. how important is this facility in designing the navy of the 21st century? >> you dont want to just go out and build a new ship. you want to be able to develop it in a smart way. you reduce the risk, reduce the cost by us...