CNN 2012-01-16

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Today shotout goes out Mr.Anderson's and Ms.Egger's social study classes at Groves⁶ academy and St.Louis Park, Minnesota. What's the term of financial aid that the government gives to people or groups? You know what to do? Is it Subsidy⁷, Commodity, Dividend⁸ or Share? You got three seconds, go. That's government financial aid is called a subsidy. That's your answer and that's your shotout.

Subsidy is designed make products more affordable⁹ for people. The flip¹⁰ side is that if you remove the subsidy the cost of product will likely go up. That's what happening in African nation of Nigeria where the governments stop giving out fuel subsidies¹¹. The price of fuel shut where leading many Nigerians to protest against the decision in the whole nation wide strike. - at - has more of what's going on in Nigeria. "The streets in Africa is the biggest twelve producer exploded with the anger Monday over the doubling of the price of gas for the removable public subsidy. A notional wide strike bombed the country to a -. In many - to the streets, they - the government restored the subsidy leading to violent crashes between protesters and police with some reports of injuries and death. The president Goodluck Jonathan told Nigerians the government needs to invest money saved to build up country's probably intro structure. Some international experts believe the major will help Nigerian growth economy" "If they have been - to try, it's actually subsidy removable. And perhaps they can push for the electricity firm too. If they do that, Nigeria grows in - seventy percent a year, it could be up ten or eleven percent." "But for most Nigerians, living on two dollars a day, the price reform is unbearable¹². Since removing the gas subsidy in January 1st, the price of petrol has doubled to about eight cents a liter, driving up the cost of most basic goods in services and most Nigerians believe the vanishing fuel subsidies will only - planning the - politicians not securing their country's future. -, CNN,-.

Fuel is pretty expensive in Nome, Alaska too. It sells from six dollars gallon there. Part the reason is because it's hard to be get fuel into Nome. You can delivery by land. The last major fuel shipment couldn't get in by sea icer. There were heavy winter storm hammering Alaska's west coast and made a delivery a fuel impossible. See there are trying something that's never been done before, supplying fuel to Nome through sea ice. The ship front here is coast guard ice breaker, it's clearing a way for Russian tanker¹³ ship. The two can - Nome as early as tomorrow. The tanker is carrying more than a million gallons of fuel. Right now, Nome hasn't enough to last through march, but officials will worried if they will wait until then, it might be even more difficult to make delivery through the ice.

From the largest US state, we are heading to the second biggest now Texas has been suffered through severe drought. In fact, experts say 2011 was the driest year ever for Texas. At earlier this week, parts of state suffered from the opposite a severe weather. Huge storms that at least two confirmed tornadoes¹⁴ at Huston area. Some spots got up six inches of rain. It's in fact it's head on the roads. Cars get stark¹⁵ in the water, hundreds of divers¹⁶ was strained by flash flood. Fire department was called out to rescue some of them, but in some areas, the water with actually too high for the emergency vehicles.

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