Under that plan, school districts can receive extra state aid if they raise their local tax rate above 35 cents for every $100 in property value.

Rising prices have since pushed margins above 30 cents a gallon, however, making it more profitable to increase refining, he said.

When it rises above 85 cents, coffee supplies will be increased.

The smaller distillers have to buy agave on the open market, where prices shot above 60 cents a pound this summer.

This week the cost of the metals in a penny rose above 0.8 cents, more than twice the value of last fall.

The cover price was initially 25 cents, while other comics of the day were rarely above 12 cents.

The city council later refused to let the company raise fares above 7 cents.

She said the market had been poised for a fall after repeated failures in the last week to sustain prices above 16 cents a pound.

But it remains well above 60.6 cents, the level it hit last November when economic pessimism was at a peak.

Coin equal to or above 5 cents contain precious metal.