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Google Inc. said Monday the company is ready to help Web sites run video advertisements, putting the Web search leader into competition with television for the biggest chunk of ad spending.Google (Research) is seeking to take the pay-per-click model it refined for text ads and apply the approach to video, cleaning up a nascent market where irritating ads that appear uninvited over the main text and then disappear distract users and limit advertisers’ desire to spend money on the medium.

Mashed-up corn is heated to produce vapor, which condenses into grain alcohol.Sound familiar, NASCAR old-timers? It’s the recipe for moonshine, the largely forgotten foundation of a sport that has moved from backwoods to big time.

But moonshine is going mainstream, too. You know it as ethanol a gasoline alternative that isn’t much different from the hooch (shh!) Junior Johnson used to hide in his trunk.

And given the current political climate, it might be smart for NASCAR to fire up the still.

The Indy Racing League is leading the way on alternative fuels, beginning a two-year transition to ethanol.

Sen. Hillary Clinton Proposes Plan to Cut Foreign Oil by 50 Percent and Boost Ethanol-Based Fuel

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will call for cutting U.S. dependence on foreign oil by 8 million barrels a day by the year 2025 a goal she says can be met with more ethanol-based fuel and a $50 billion fund for new energy research.

Clinton, D-N.Y., who is up for re-election this year and is also a potential 2008 presidential candidate, is to outline her energy goals in a speech Tuesday morning.

When it comes to auto insurance rates, who you are determines what you pay.Automobile insurance premiums are based on a large number of factors, some of which you can control, and some of which, alas, are incontrovertible facts of life. Statistically, a sixteen-year old boy with a 300 horsepower sports car in a big city is far more likely to hit something than a 35 year-old married guy driving a minivan around the suburbs.

While you can’t change your age and some other factors, there are things that you can do to keep insurance premiums as low as possible.