<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"  xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports</title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer</link><description><![CDATA[KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:08:21 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><atom:link href="http://kdka.com/consumer/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Does It Really Do That? See Which Did (& Didn't)]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/Does.It.Really.2.390281.html</link><description><![CDATA[Before you invest, we put it to the test! KDKA Consumer Editor Yvonne Zanos has been testing a number of different products to see which ones live up to the hype (and which ones didn't!). <strong>VIDEO:</strong> <a href="http://kdka.com/video?cid=60">"Does It Really Do That?"</a>]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/Does.It.Really.2.390281.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:29:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officials: Brace For Higher Water, Sewage Bills]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/water.sewage.bills.2.763432.html</link><description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh and Allegheny County leaders are warning people to brace for a major increase in their water and sewer bills.  Officials predict consumers could end up paying as much as two or three times what they're paying now.]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/water.sewage.bills.2.763432.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:46:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nebraska Beef Ltd. Recall Now 5.3 Million Pounds]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/Beef.Recall.Nebraska.2.763482.html</link><description><![CDATA[Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to
include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef
between May 16 and June 26.									]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/Beef.Recall.Nebraska.2.763482.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:01:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does It Really Do That: Get A Grip]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/Get.A.Grip.2.762727.html</link><description><![CDATA[Get A Grip is a portable suction grab bar that promises to keep you safe and secure from a slip and fall. But does it really do that? KDKA's Consumer Editor Yvonne Zanos and John Seitz, of the non-profit group Home Safe Home, put it to the test.]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/Get.A.Grip.2.762727.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:40:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move Over Ferrari, The Tesla's In Town]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/tesla.ev.cars.2.763028.html</link><description><![CDATA[The brand new Roadster from Tesla Motors not only looks good, it's totally green.]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/tesla.ev.cars.2.763028.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:46:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow Sales Mean Good Deals For Car Buyers]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/Car.dealerships.bargains.2.762611.html</link><description><![CDATA[At car dealerships all over the region, there are lots of cars but not a lot of buyers. Debbie Peters has been selling cars for 24 years and her colleagues in the business agree it's one of the toughest years ever for car sales. <br />]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/Car.dealerships.bargains.2.762611.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:33:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity Rates Expected To Rise]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/Electricity.rate.caps.2.762527.html</link><description><![CDATA[For many people, news that rising electric rates are on the horizon is just one more reason to worry.   State Democrats in Harrisburg warn electric rate shock is coming in 2010, when many of the current caps on rate increases expire.]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/Electricity.rate.caps.2.762527.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:04:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Airlines To Furlough 900 Employees]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/american.flight.attendant.2.762121.html</link><description><![CDATA[American Airlines Inc. acknowledged it will furlough 900 flight attendants this summer as part of its employee reduction plan announced in May.<span> "These are difficult, but necessary changes given the unprecedented challenges we face with overcapacity in the industry," said a spokesman for the airline.</span> ]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/american.flight.attendant.2.762121.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:12:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CNET's Content To Boost CBS Coverage]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/cbs.cnet.purchase.2.761897.html</link><description><![CDATA[CBS and CNET have joined forces to form the eighth largest Web network in the world. While CNET may be best known for their coverage of technology, the company also runs Web sites on parenting, gaming and business, to name a few. ]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/cbs.cnet.purchase.2.761897.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:02:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy Experts: 'Oil Price Shock' Gripping World]]></title><link>http://kdka.com/consumer/gas.prices.shock.2.761879.html</link><description><![CDATA[As crude soared to a new record, the head of the International Energy Agency declared that the world was in the grip of an "oil shock," and the president of OPEC acknowledged he could not say whether prices would flatten out or continue to soar. ]]></description><guid>http://kdka.com/consumer/gas.prices.shock.2.761879.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:22:26 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>