Europe pays higher prices for petrol mostly because of taxes, not because of the cost of the petrol itself. Of course those petrol taxes go on to support infrastructure spending.
Older homes may still have single pane glass, but all newer homes have double pane. In some areas of the US, that's required code. Most people flipping old homes also tend to install double pane as well. I currently have double pane glass, as does my office building.It's not bad in quality, it's just very, very wasteful in comparison. Again, an anecdote, but at a time when most houses in Germany had double-glassed (by now triple-glassed seems to become the norm) windows, I only saw single glass pane windows in the US. That is terrible, terrible insulation. Whether you're in a hot region or a cold region, single glas windows are terrible. Instead of paying more for better insulation against heat, you lot pay more for A/C units that are still largely unknown here in domestic residences and still the exception in office buildings as well.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
My understanding was that Cameron's statement today was that the newly formed exit group attached to the cabinet are the ones having "pre trigger talks" so that they can put forth their wishes/demands as they fire Article 50. I would guess this will happen around mid Oct.
It's the evaluation of credit risk of your debt, the lower the rating is, the higher the risk of investment on your country.
Sure, it doesn't hurt the day by day of an economy like Britain in the short term, but companies will think twice before investing and even stay in the UK, something that is already happening.
That sort of thing is slowly being replaced in the US, though, as neighborhoods turn over. I know the new subdivisions in Houston don't get their electricity from poles, and when developers tear down older houses or redevelop whole districts, those tend to get upgraded as well.
There are definitely a bunch of old neighborhoods still out there, though, for sure.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
You've heard that stuff with how the EU wants to phase out English as an official EU language?
It's almost like watching a kindergarten. They all go "You don't want to play with us, so we don't want your stuff, huuumpf"
It's ridiculous.
Changing tax models has a long lasting effect, you can stop printing money as soon as you want.
They are not the same.Otherwise the rich will just transfer their funds to another currency and you end up with less volume to absorb the costs of unexpected problems.
Inflation is effectively a flat tax. Flat taxes are bad for societies when they start to dominate.
Inflation devalues money and raises the value of real goods vs virtual items (like services traded, work included). Who has property would see huge benefits.
Flat taxes instead will have negligible impact on wealthy individuals no matter how their wealth is distributed.
They mentioned ground source heat pumps (geothermic).
They're showcasing systems that use renewables, not just efficient energy usage.
But heat pumps, since they need be powered through electricity, may or may not fall within the renewable range.
To figure if a pump is, in fact, in that range, we have some EU parliament directive from 2009 and a method of calculation by the commission in 2013. It's climate dependent, though, so the thresholds may differ in each member state.
As an aside, the decision to install one needs to take into account the installation system. Retrofitting an existing installation may prove difficult if it's based on radiators (as a heat pump system would need massive ones, or rip the flooring to install an underfloor one). They're not very common here -Spain- because of that; though the reversible ones, that one can use as cooling in summertime, are a bit more popular in the south.
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Was out getting less than sober myself, enjoying some french electro (while I still can). Here you go. Also doubles as crash course in the accent/language. And we've got the holidays covered too.
It's accurate although slightly murky to what extent it holds true. In this case it wouldn't even come into play to be honest since the referendum was advisory and didn't lay out any action to be taken beyond asking the question.
Also this was pretty brutal. (dammit mmo-c, let me embed tweets already).
Haven't heard that one; they did un-invite Britain from multiple talks with the other 27 leaders this week during the EU summit. Yes great idea, don't talk with the one nation thats leaving because thats going to help the transition process.
Seriously how is anyone regretting the vote? The EU has shown its true colours in the last couple of days.
"Danuta Hübner, the head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO), warned Monday that English will not be one of the European Union’s official languages after Britain leaves the EU."
Its sounds utterly stupid...UK or not, English is the most widely used and accepted language. I know it`s not the most spoken language but no way in hell if you go anywhere in the world, somebody won`t understand at least part of it...I hope it`s just a hoax...
Ahh i read more from the article
"“We have a regulation … where every EU country has the right to notify one official language,” Hübner said. “The Irish have notified Gaelic, and the Maltese have notified Maltese, so you have only the U.K. notifying English.”
“If we don’t have the U.K., we don’t have English,” Hübner said.
English is one of the working languages in the European institutions, Hübner said, adding: “It’s actually the dominating language,” the one most frequently used by EU civil servants.
The regulation listing official languages of the EU would have to be changed unanimously by remaining countries if they want to keep English as an official language, Hübner said."
http://www.politico.eu/article/engli...it-senior-mep/