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Gas Prices Drop Below Pre-Fourth of July Mark
KickingTiresThe lag between the cost of oil dropping and gas prices doing likewise seems to be shortening. As oil prices dipped below $130 a barrel last week, today the price of a gallon of gas nationally dropped to just below......Tags: Environmental Issues, Petroleum Industry, Fourth of July, Prices, AAA
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Video: McCain attack ad: Obama = Spears = Hilton?
Spin CycleMcCain releases another ad attacking Obama. It is ostensibly about his opposition to offshore drilling, and somehow fails to mention that McCain was also opposed to offshore drilling until a month ago. But the ad, titled "Celeb," also makes an......Tags: Coal, Politics, Natural Resources, Texas, Barack Obama
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Oil speculation bigger than we knew
The Swampby Frank James For the past few months as oil-futures prices were breaking records with a barrel of oil topping out around $150, Many congressional Democrats raised concerns about speculators in the "dark" market driving up those crude-oil prices....Tags: National Government, Economy, Energy, Prices, Federal Reserve
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Candidate plans won't kick foreign oil
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley??? and Christi Parsons Fifth in an occasional series, United States of Anxiety ORLANDO -- Barack Obama and John McCain are promising voters a Tomorrowland of electric cars and high-speed trains and solar panels, a vision of......Tags: Economic Policy, Vehicles, History, Richard Nixon, Politics
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ExxonMobil's likely pass on big profits
The Swampby Frank James Beating up on the oil companies approached a sport over the summer, particularly for Democrats, when oil prices rose to $140 a barrel and gas prices at the pump topped out over $4 a gallon. But as......Tags: National Government, Barack Obama, John McCain, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, State Budgets
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Sarah Palin's oil problem: Scaling back
The Swampby Mark Silva Oil's not well in Alaska. And that could mean a chill, baby, chill, for Gov. Sarah Palin. The wire dispatch from Anchorage this morning notes that the governor's two years in office "have been called a time......Tags: Kim Elton, U.S. Department of the Interior, Sarah Palin, University of Virginia, Executive Branch
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Sarah Palin: Polarizing, prevaricating?
The Swampby Mark Silva We've been hearing a lot about Sarah Palin lately. It's not, however, what the governor of Alaska, erstwhile Republican candidate for vice president and oft-mentioned prospect for her party's future leaders, wants us to hear: It has......Tags: Justice System, The Associated Press, Education, Parliament, Bristol Palin
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Gas prices: 50th day of pumped-up cost
The Swampby Mark Silva It's starting to look like another hot summer. If you've taken a long ride lately, you've noticed something familiar. Retail gasoline prices climbed today for the 50th straight day. Pump prices added a half cent overnight to......Tags: Getty Images Inc., New York Mercantile Exchange, Petroleum Industry, Economy, Economy, Business and Finance
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Gas Prices Rise with Thanksgiving Travel
KickingTiresIf you???re traveling by car this Thanksgiving, you???ll notice a difference in gas prices from last year. Up 72 cents per gallon from a year ago, the national average stands at roughly $2.64, according to AAA???s Fuel Gauge Report. Keep......Tags: Thanksgiving, Petroleum Industry, Travel, Holidays, Energy
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U.S. tax breaks favor oil industry
The SwampResidents of Grand Isle, La. express their frustration with BP Monday. (EPA/Bevil Knapp) by Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger It was close to 2 a.m. when Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and others on a House-Senate conference committee saw......Tags: Nick J. Rahall II, Justice System, Emergency Planning, Edward J Markey, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California)
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Bush's ticking clock echoes in Middle East
The Swampby Mark Silva With a new scandal enveloping the Israeli prime minister and Hezbollah militants flexing their muscle in Lebanon, President George W. Bush will confront even longer odds for success when he travels to the Middle East this week......Tags: Economy, Terrorism, Politics, Political Candidates, Diplomacy
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Saudis boost oil, modestly, Bush rebuffed
The Swampby Mark Silva RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The Saudis have agreed to only a modest boost in oil production, announced in the midst of meetings with Saudi King Abdullah and President Bush over tea, lunch and dinner and an overnight......Tags: National Government, Imperial and Royal Matters, Economy, Prices, Globalization
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