steiner uses sushi as an example. "when you catch these things out in the middle of the pacific or out in the middle of the atlantic and you have to get them to the sushi market in tokyo, and they have to take a jet. we fly tuna around like its a c-e-o because they're worth so much money. in the future, they'll be worth so much money, no one will want to pay to eat them." and farming will have to shift away from its dependence on imported fertilizer, "people like to talk about america's oil problem. what they often don't know about is america's fertilizer problem. most everything in whole foods came from fertilizer. all of it. and most of that fertilizer came from places like qatar, venezuala and russia. its cheaper to get fossil fuels over there. fertilizer is almost 100 percent natural gas. when you're eating, you're eating fossil fuels." $18 per gallon our armed forces has a fuel problem. and they know about it." every dollar increase in the price of gas costs the pentagon 5 billion dollars. the military's strategy

and as steiner points out, those prices did bring real change. "well 2.97 is pretty close, but $4 changed a lot of things, people drove 100 billion less miles than they did the year before." that decrease was the largest drop ever and marked the first time in more than 30 years that americans actually drove less year over year. and while those who remember paying $4 bucks a gallon may find it hard to find the positive from such prices, steiner's research points to a bright side. "right now we lose over 40- thousand people each year to road crashes. well at 4 dollars, we're going to lose almost 10-thousand less people than we do at three dollars." $6 "at $6 a gallon, it will really be the official death of the s- u-v at that point. it will just be a nichy product." for hummer drivers that may not be good news, but for other motorist, roads without s-u-v's will be safer. consider that for every 1 million toyota camrys on the road, 70 people die in accidents, while more than twice than many, 148 people, die in accidents for every one million ford ex

william steiner attacked a group of photographers yesterday when he was leaving the courthouse. police detained him after the incident. he will not face charges. he pleaded guilty to identity theft and making false reports to police. she was sentenced to nine to 24 months in prison. >>> a woman is freed after being kept captive for 18 years. coming up, the alarming details surrounding the kidnapping, including where that woman has been kept since she was 11 years old. >>> plus, a wildfire forces the evacuation o 500 homes in a los angeles suburb. it's just one of several fires burning across the park state. >>> it could be another messy game tonight in the rain. the redskins >>> good morning. welcome back. today nasa is hoping the third time is a charm indeed. engineers are planning to launch the space shuttle discovery, and lift off is set for one minute past midnight tonight. it was supposed to blast off on tuesday and that launch was scrubbed because of bad weather, and then the launch on wednesday was scrubbed because of a malfunctioning fuel valve. engineers have now fixed

the question here is why buy bin over a great company like david steiner's waste management? when some say it's canadianness covering in the core. maybe the garbage collection version of william shatner. waste management has the higher yield as bin which is expected to pay out 50 cents a share in dividends, yields only 3.7, but that's still pretty good. bin seems to have more room to improve, and that should mean more room to increase earnings. the two big drivers are internalization and consolidation. for garbage companies, the internalization rate is the percentage of waste they collect that actually gets disposed at their own landfills, bin's rate is 52%, that's low, the average guy is 65, so bin is looking to fill the gap by acquiring some waste holding companies, that's the consolidation. a move that should give the company's margins and cash flow a boost. binn's got a cleaner balance sheet, the dive send is marathon man safe, and would back me up on that if he were still alive since as the company's free cash flow per share is more than five times the size of the payout