Essays on Petrol

In the case study of Guy Roberts, it is possible to recognize various stages of development when the group involved in fraudulent activities at Millard construction attempt to exercise control over him. Guy was favoured by his wife’s brother Neville to take on the job in Millard construction after he was left unemployed by the bankruptcy of his previous employers. The offer contained higher basic salary and petrol allowance but no annual bonus. It was a good offer, considering that Millard construction was a larger company than Fry Bras. Guy was yet to realize that there are groups ...

Abstract

This paper tends to highlight the history of automobiles and their impact on society today. This paper will discuss how what motivated the development of automobiles while also stating down the history of automobiles from the traditional and mechanical automotive used years back to the more modern electronic automobiles in use today. The impact of automobiles on society today cannot be understated with the rapid advancements in technology leading to the production of the brilliant machines. But with every advancement brings both negative and positive impacts on society and this paper will discuss these factors in a broader way. ...

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In May 2012, English couple Mick and Mairead Philpott made the headlines for surviving a fire that killed their six children and destroyed their house in the Allenton area (BBC News, 2013). After publicly claiming to be lucky for surviving the fire, the Philpotts won the sympathy of people who felt sorry for them for losing six of their children and most of their properties. However, after a month of investigation, the Philpotts were accused of committing arson and murder, and by 2013, they were convicted of manslaughter for deliberately starting a fire that killed all six of their ...

Business

Assignment 1. The Market Assessment.

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The subject of the current research is the company Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers and its office in Cookeville, TN. This company provides a wide range of the services for the car owners. The most popular service is a 10-minute oil change that also includes some examination of the safety and mechanical conditions of the vehicle (Range of Auto Services Offered). The company has been established in 1979 and throughout 37-years, it has grown into one of the leading automotive service providers. Nowadays, there are more than two thousand of the company’s offices ...

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Generally, Free Thought can be attributed to almost all developments and advancements in the world. Ranging from innovations and technological developments to religion and political changes, free thought seems to be the main driver of change. Free thought requires that free thinkers hold their positions regarding truth based on empiricism, logic, and reason. This implies that a free thinker should not be influenced by such things as tradition, authority or revelation. Free thought has developed a society of civilized people and advanced technology leading to the end of ineffective and bureaucratic regimes and religions that brought about differences within ...

Apple Inc. has focused on data that few people think is important. According to Apple Inc., the world of tomorrow shall need smart devices that can help in navigation between places and help them locate important facilities such as petrol stations, restaurants and guest houses. Apple Inc. has, given the above, focused on gathering data and analysing it with a view of making this navigation on their smart devices as easy and as intuitive as possible (Rossio, et al. 2013). This navigation data is so important to Apple Inc. that in just the last three years, the company has ...

Price discrimination refers to a business practice which involves selling of similar or near similar products to consumers at different prices during a certain period (Stole and Lars 2221). There are two main motives why businesses engage in the practice. Firstly, the business may be aiming at becoming a monopoly in the said market segment. In this case, the business could sell certain highly priced goods at a low price to a certain market segment that the business wishes to control. The second and the main reason why businesses engage in price discrimination is to take advantage of consumer ...

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This report analyzes the BMW’s controversial activities, which involves the production of electric Tesla cars. Although dubbed ‘green' vehicles, they pollute the environment as reported by the Company’s customers from Hong Kong, China. The paper uses a pair of theoretical concepts of Business Ethics – Kantian Ethics of Duties and Utilitarianism, which it applies to the issue at hand. In addition to that, the report compares the frameworks with the sole focus on how they relate to the BMW’s case. Lastly, it gives a few recommendations that BMW can use in handling the problem.

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Fuel Cell Technologies in Passenger Cars

Fuel Cell Technology The last decade is characterized by the rapid development of research activity in the field of fuel cells, thus, creating the conditions for their uptake in electric systems. The basic fuel cells’ operating principle has been known for 150 years. However, a variety of technical and financial problems had kept them on the margins of technological applications (Brandon & Hart, 1999). The basic difference between a fuel cell and batteries is that while batteries store energy, fuel cells directly convert a fuel’s chemical energy into electricity by an electrochemical reaction (i.e. Without requiring combustion or movement ...

Introduction

On the 11th of May, Nigeria topped the BBC news headlines with the headline that Nigeria had decided to raise the petrol prices in order to ease the shortages in the country. For an economist, this kind of a news headline is bound to trigger your thoughts as to why this particular nation had decided to increase the prices having in mind the fact that the country is Africa’s largest producer of oil and also it has a fair share of the international oil market. The country’s legislative arm stated that it had found it wise to ...

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Cruise ships are used to take vacationers on recreational voyages. The ships provide amenities that enhance the passengers experience such as lounging facilities, cinemas, indoor sports, swimming pools, and music concerts among others. Cruise ships usually take the vacationers on a round trip through a given number of destinations, which usually include a number of coastal downs, before returning them to the port of origin. The cruise industry started in the early 1970s and was widely embraced in 1971 as a viable tourist attraction when a ship known as the Pacific Princess was featured in ...

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One of the primary factors that influence the public transportation sector in Saudi Arabia is the low petrol prices. Saudi Arabia is well known for its abundance of oil. Given that it’s one of the global suppliers of oil, petrol in the country is very cheap. The low prices make it more desirable for the public to use private transportation since it is affordable and this may not change anytime soon. Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia still has a public transport network. It is, therefore, essential to look into the economic and societal impact public transportation has on the Saudi ...

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Air pollution as the name clearly suggests, refers to the accumulation of particles or impurities in the air composition. These particles could be dust, smoke, burnt fuel like diesel or petrol, and other burnt components. Air pollution, particularly in China, is a major problem or bottleneck that is more often than not ignored at the risk of the people’s health as well as that of the economy. Major health conditions especially, respiratory conditions like asthma, bronchitis and other perilous conditions like cancer could spell doom for the people of China (Ho, and Chris 115). Measures to curb the ...

The Name of Class

The Name of the School The City and States where it is located The petrol industry in the United Kingdom – UK, has seen various changes in the last ten to five years. The market shares and market structure will be examined in more detail for the last five years with representing the main changes in the petrol industry and market shares. The UK petroleum market is composed of various brands. Over the five years similar names have been present in the market. The shares of the petrol companies and retail companies have been changing along with the different composition ...

A clean energy vehicle, popularly known as green vehicle, is a motor vehicle that makes minimum harmful effects to the surrounding environment in comparison to conventional vehicles, which use either gasoline or diesel as fuel for their internal combustion engines. Clean energy vehicle technology focuses on bringing spectacular improvements in vehicle technologies with the intention of reducing the dependence of running vehicles on nonrenewable energy sources like oil and improving the fuel efficiency. The areas in which the technology concentrates are: bio-fuels, energy conversion, clean combustion, electrification of vehicles, advanced batteries, lightweight materials integration of vehicle grid and analysis ...

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The development in the automotive industry has resulted in the production of various sustainable technologies. The paper is going to examine the problem of the pollution and contribution to reduction of the automotive industry to the climate change in carbon dioxide emissions. The partial solution for the transport industry has already been introduced with the technology of electric vehicles. The sustainability of the technology will be examined with the shortcomings and disadvantages of the battery production of electronic vehicles. The thesis of the paper is that electric vehicles are more sustainable than the traditional cars and use sustainable technology ...

An automotive engine is a propulsion system responsible for moving automobiles from one place to another. An engine converts energy from a fuel or a battery to the mechanical energy used to spin the wheels, thus setting a vehicle in motion. There are different types of engines used in the automotive industry today. These include internal combustion engines and electricity driven vehicles. The internal combustion engines burn fuels such as petrol, diesel, natural gas or propane. Electric engines are fitted with electromagnetic motors that are powered by electric currents from storage batteries on the vehicle. The sole purpose of ...

History of the UK Oil & Gas Industry

It was in the year 1975 that Hamilton Brothers, a small entrepreneurial entity of the United States, which was working in the Argyle field, succeeded in bringing British oil ashore for the first time, and this was almost immediately followed by the BP excavation that resulted in huge quantities of oil being discovered in the Forties field.

Progress made by the industry since the 1970s

Oil discovery in the North, grew leaps and bounds as several other companies from other nations like the EU, United States and many other domestic UK firms leased out many sectors of the North Sea for excavating oil. Slightly around the late ...

Introduction

The recent trends have had a major impact on the UK (United Kingdom) petroleum retail market. The trend impact has been on the number of petrol filling stations (PFS). The UK Petroleum Industry has undergone major changes since 1970. The changes impacted a decline of PFS with a closure of more than seventy-five percent of PFS and a further decline of twenty-nine percent in 2011 although there has been some reduction in the decline in last five years (Study of the UK Petroleum Retail Market., 2012). Independent dealers had a lot of pressure from the hypermarkets, and this has ...

Critically discuss the implications of recent trends and changes within the supply chain of the UK petroleum retail market.

Critically discuss the implications of recent trends and changes within the supply chain of the UK Petroleum retail market. Introduction The United Kingdom incorporates four separate legal systems within its entity that are Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland . In order to maintain uniformity in laws pertaining to the ownership of natural fuel such as Petroleum, the 1937 Petroleum Act was passed, which established that all such resources fall under the control of the British Crown. The petroleum distribution system in the United Kingdom resembles the system that is prevalent in the United States of America, that is, a ...

BUSINESS LAW QUESTIONS

Carlil v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893] 1 QB 256; [1892] EWCA Civ 1 Carlil v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company is a leading case in Contract Law which discusses the salient elements of an offer, an invitation to treat and other relevant contractual concepts. The facts of this case are that Carbolic Smoke ball Company, while advertising the Carbolic Smoke Ball drug for influenza, advertised that; £100 would be rewarded to any person who contracted influenza having used the ball three times a day for two weeks. The Company added that £1000 was already deposited with Alliance Bank to ...

Legal research

Introduction Every business should abide by the business laws to remain competitive and relevant. Particularly, concepts surrounding the law of contracts, torts, and employment law guide most conflicts occurring in businesses today. However, businesses are faced with challenging situations that require precise understanding and interpretation of different commercial case laws and concepts. The lack of understanding of these basic concepts may cause businesses to suffer legal consequences arising from frequent litigations (Singh, 2007). The current paper analyses three events that happened at Wicked Theatres Group Ltd.’s theater. In doing so, the paper sheds light on the legal principles ...

[Economics] As everyone knows, oil is considered to be a raw material. Though there are some unknown oil stocks, oil as well as other minerals is an exhaustive type of resource. Moreover, no matter what scientists say, or give any predictions, in the nearest future we will run out of this mineral. That is one of the reasons why we can observe the price gradually raising now. But to be honest, by 2020 this factor will not influence significantly the price of oil. The explanation to this is because the vast majority of world’s oil stocks have already ...

1. Consumer Price Index (CPI) This is a gauge of the standard change over time in the prices waged by urban customers for a set market basket of customer merchandises. The CPI is deemed the most significant gauge of inflation. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) augmented 0.2 percent in 2010/2011 on a periodically adjusted source, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics accounted this year (2011). During the last 24 months, the all items index augmented 3.6 percent prior to periodical adjustment. The indicator for all items less food and energy augmented 0.3 percent in 2011, its ...

Introduction

In these tough economic times, the government needs to reprioritise its spending programs to ensure that it directs the economy back to the path of growth. Various measures need to betaken to achieve this objective, and I intend to make some several proposals that I will carry out to achieve this. The police force plays an essential role of preserving social harmony in this country. The social stability that is enjoyed in all parts of the United Kingdom is to a large extent as a result of their efforts in maintaining law and order. I commend the police force for ...

Executive Summary

According to a recent survey the city of Manchester has some of the most congested roads in the U.K. The survey found that on Fridays from 17.00-18.00 it takes an average of 56% longer on Manchester roads than driving the same distance in uncongested conditions. This was rated as the worst time and place to be on the U.K. Based on Automatic counts an average of 29,035 cars cross the Manchester regional centre inbound between 7.30 and 9.30 am and rises to 64,784 cars between 7.00 and 10.00 am. These statistics attest to the fact that road traffic ...