Have a gas,” a friend chuckles as she bids us adieu from our town of Takoma Park, Maryland. It is a fitting send-off since we are traveling to Trinidad and Tobago, a country known by some for its gas and oil, and by many others for its raucous carnival. We are headed that way neither for gas nor carnival, nor to loll with Europeans at Tobago’s upscale eco-tourism facilities.
Rather, we are journeying to see the other face of the country, to spend time in communities of rooted small fishers in northern Trinidad. Just a few hours away from Trinidad’s capital of Port of Spain, the center of carnival frenzy and the ports from which the oil and gas are shipped, our base is the fishing villages of Trinidad’s rugged northern coast where visitors seldom venture.
Supermarkets carry an average of more than 38,000 different items on their shelves. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Food Additives Project estimates that there are more than 10,000 chemicals allowed in food that help make this variety possible. These chemicals perform many functions, including enhancing the taste or appearance of food, preventing spoilage, and packaging the products.
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In gasoline/diesel-powered vehicles, most of the fuel’s energy (70 – 72%) is lost within the engine primarily as heat. Smaller amounts of energy are lost through engine friction, that is from pumping air into and out of the engine. . .