And of course the move towards modern technology is one of the reasons why the ministry has forced the government to move towards electric vehicles. We use at least 10 liters of petrol for every 100 km and the price is 27 thousand tomans there. We have 270,000 tomans. In fact, you consume fuel. Every 100 kilometers , you consume about 13 kilowatts. Ministry of petroleum by replacing every petrol taxi with an electric taxi will save 1,000 euros or about 650 million tomans in fuel. In 7 years , buses will be electric. The subway is now electric. Taxis and motorbikes are the First Priority because the amount of travel that a taxi can take per day in tehran. It is much more than a car for the fleet. The public transport of tehran municipality is planning to buy 5 thousand electric buses. 2,500 domestically produced buses and 2,500 foreign buses. The path of movement is based on public transport frameworks towards electrification. By replacing these buses in the transportation fleet a city
Terrorism. John harwood will join us from the white house. Before we do that, lets get up to speed on this mornings other top stories. Michelle . Lets start with oil. Crude prices dropping after fridays opec meeting. As a result theres no agreement on output targets. In fact, the cartel didnt even mention a quota, something we havent seen in decades. Analysts say this is a message that opec or saudi arabia is willing to deal with low prices. You can see wti is back below 40 per barrel. U. S. Gasoline prices dropping again as well. The lundberg survey says the average price is down 4 cents. 2. 10, the lowest level since late january. In global news, big win for venezuelas opposition. The Party Winning control over the National Assembly and changing the balance of power. The victory comes 17 years after hugo chavez started the socialist information. It could mean dramatic changes down there. In corporate news, General Electric is terminating a deal that it had to sell its business, its a
Department basically predicted it would not happen as general shinseki had a more robust presence and pushed aside aggressively and the consequences of that with the early policy decisions played out over the years. So certainly there is details with that at the policy level we want people to think about what it meant to be one of those marines or Us State Department guy to build the society up and what that was like and how that was affected by the past but on a daytoday basis. For use thinking of trading when you were deployed or were you taking notes when you were deployed . I took a lot of notes a was right thing but not about war mostly very, very bad short stories and ive learned Anthony Powell had quit writing during world war ii i felt like that excuse me for all the things i had written them were awful. But i did come back with notes and a lot of memories but the source material that i had with the nature of my job by which travel lot and its been time with units so that certa
Lyceum on a checkpoint. A group of insurgents and then went to the child of a launch. I got fish and lima beans. I try to a healthy. All nine of us are smiling and laughing. Still jittery. A big plate of ravioli and pop types. Before digging in, the persian gulf, the they have pumped cuts everywhere . Another better, too. Weird. He looks up and down the table. I cannot believe we finally had a mission. Its about time we kill someone. Even i chuckle little. We had been in iraq two months when the artillery units actually doing artillery, except so far we have only shot elimination missions. They usually dont want to risk collateral damage. Not us, not until today. Today the old and battery fires and we know we hit our target. Religion until the so. Pretty quiet. How many insurgents to you think we killed . Platoon size elements. What . Platoon size . Hq i dont have platoons. Why do you think we need the old and battery. We didnt . Each gun only fired two rounds. They just wanted us all
To the American People on wednesday night president obama announced a major es calation o a campaign to defeat isis, that is advancing across iraq from syria. Adding u. S. Fire power to the countrys bloody 3yearold civil war and he called on congress to expand effort to train and arm moderate Syrian Rebels which are being carried out by the cia on a much smaller scale. America will lead a Broad Coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Our objective is clear. We will do grade and ultimatel destroy isil through a Counter Terrorism strategy. We will conduct air strikes against these terrorists. We will increase our support to forces fighting on the ground. President obama ordered 475 more troops to iraq, bringing the total number of boots on the ground to about 1600. But obama emphasized the sustained military campaign against isis would be different in the recent invasions of iraq and afghanistan which put tens of thousands of u. S. Troops on the battlefield and killed nearly 7,000