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• Dingell's energy plan would hike gas taxes

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:20 pm

  Tags: Congress, Energy, Environment, Gas Prices, Politics, President Bush, Taxes

  a 50-cent per gallon tax on gasoline, end the mortgage tax deduction for so-called "McMansions," and tax and put a cap on carbon dioxide emissions. Proposals by a single congressman are usually not so noteworthy, but Dingell happens to be the powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and accustomed to getting his way in

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• Ethanol Raising Price of Beef

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:17 pm

  Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Oil Amp Amp Gas Prices, Weather, Beef, Corn, New York Sun

  so far, shall we: Corn prices have skyrocketedGasoline prices have skyrocketedMore pollutants are being released into the air given how much dirtier ethanol blends are than unblended gasolineFuel efficiency has declined as ethanol blends get fewer miles per gallon than unblended gasolineMeat prices have risen with better cuts less

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• SAVE ON GASOLINE

  Published: May 28, 2007, 11:35 am

  Tags: Let S Bring Gas Prices Down

  can’t just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war. Here’s the idea: For the rest of 2007, DON’T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices.

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• California Legislation to Combat Hot Fuels and Unfair Gasoline Prices

  Published: August 25, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Gas Prices

  years. But skyrocketing gas prices hit lower and middle income families in Californians hard. If you ask an oil executive how gas prices are calculated, the answer will be vague at best. Democrats in the California Assembly are deeply troubled by this unaccountable system. That's why we've introduced a package of bills to stop Big Oil

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• California Legislature's Big Oil Industry Reforms Emerge as Pipsqueaks

  Published: August 28, 2007, 8:28 am

  Tags: Gas Prices

  ez stood next to a Chevron gas station in downtown Los Angeles with three colleagues and vowed in strong language to curb oil company machinations that drive up gasoline prices. The outcome so far is more whimper than bang. Some bills may even help oil companies more than consumers. One of those standing with N ez was Assemblyman

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• OiL World: Energy futures jump on inventory report

  Published: August 29, 2007, 11:51 pm

  Tags: Gas Prices, Us Energy Information Administration, Eia, Energy Futures, Antoine Halff, Us Energy Department, Nymex, Wachovia, Fimat Usa Llc

  Gas prices rose at the pump for the first time in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• INDIA: The gas prices and Reliance Industries, wants early solution

  Published: September 4, 2007, 11:36 pm

  Tags: Ril, Gas Prices, Murli Deora, India, Egom, Krishna Godavari, Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries

  Even as the CPI(M) has asked the Government to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Texas Oilman's Trial Shows War Opponents Also Sought to Get Rich

  Published: September 17, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Oil Amp Amp Gas Prices, Oscar Wyatt

  At the same time Alan Greenspan is out defending the Bush administration from the "no blood for oil" crowd, a man accused of illegally buying and selling oil from Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime is being put on trial.Looking at the case of Oscar Wyatt, one soon realizes that the left-wing stereotype that Iraq war opponents were hardly

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• Alan Greenspan: I Never Said Iraq War Was About Oil

  Published: September 17, 2007, 12:41 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Oil Amp Amp Gas Prices, Alan Greenspan, Washington Post

  day could translate into oil prices as high as $120 a barrel -- far above even the recent highs of $80 set last week -- and the loss of anything more would mean "chaos" to the global economy.Given that, "I'm saying taking Saddam out was essential," he said. But he added that he was not implying that the war was an oil

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• Exxon Profits Hit $39,500,000,000 Amid Daunting Gas Prices

  Published: September 23, 2007, 2:25 pm

  Tags: Business, Companies, Corporations, Earnings, Gas, Gas Prices, Money, Oil, Profits, Wall Street

  Now, just like every other red blooded American, to me filling up at the pump is about as fun as paying taxes or going to the dentist. In my frustration, it would be easy for me to read newspaper headlines such as the title of this blog and blame evil corprate America. But because I am pro-capitalism and believe in questioning what is presented to

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• War, politics, oil and gas

  Published: September 27, 2007, 9:04 pm

  Tags: Business, Politics, Europe, War, Corporations, Columnists, Oil, Gas Prices

  almost all foreign oil and gas contracts since 2003. Gazprom, its gas conglomerate, causes fear in Europe because of its bold plans to buy oil and gas distribution and other companies. The European Union's executive Commission views this as aggression and is opening investigation of Gazprom for misuse of market power to control segments of

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• WaPo Cites Highlights Ad Watcher's Complaints Against Oil Companies

  Published: September 28, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Business Coverage, Oil Amp Amp Gas Prices, Bob Garfield, Steven Mufson, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues

  Washington Post reporter Steven Mufson noted in a September 28 Business section front-pager how new advertising campaigns are "Recasting Big Oil's Battered Image." Within his article, Mufson brought in advertising critic and NPR host who injected his own political beliefs about oil companies like Chevron (emphasis mine): "What

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• NYT Front Page Shocker: Ethanol Causing Rise in World Hunger

  Published: September 29, 2007, 6:12 pm

  Tags: Environment, Ethanol, Global Warming, Oil Amp Amp Gas Prices, Weather, New York Times

  the current high price of gasoline, irrespective of all the other components of this issue, it seemed likely that few legislators would want to bring up anything that could appear to go against the conventional wisdom surrounding ethanol. Since few press outlets have reported the negative aspects of biofuels, most Americans probably think

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• Media Ignore Congressman Dingell's Painful' Tax Plan to Solve Global Warming

  Published: September 29, 2007, 4:52 pm

  Tags: Economy, Environment, Finance, Global Warming, Housing, Oil Amp Amp Gas Prices, Weather, John Dingell, Associated Press

  petroleum productNatural gasA tax on gasoline:.50/ gallon of gas, jet fuel, kerosene (petroleum based) etc...(added to current gas tax) (phased in over 5 years and then adjusted for inflation)Exemption for diesel - The fuel economy benefits of diesel surpass even its emissions benefits; it provides about a thirty percent

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• Obama's new energy plan: Pay to pollute

  Published: October 8, 2007, 1:15 pm

  Tags: Energy, Environment, Gas Prices, Obama, Politics, White House 2008

  by Mike Dorning Presidential candidate Barack Obama hopes to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and combat global warming with a national auction system that would make every company pay for the right to emit smoke and other sources of carbon. The "cap-and-trade" auction system is based on the idea that the easiest way to reduce the carbon

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