Tag: oil
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July 22, 2008 08:31 PM EDT --
Did you know that only 15% of America's oil come from the Middle East? Most of that comes from Saudi Arabia.
According to the US Deparment of Energy, this is the breakdown of imports as of 2002, . . .
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September 11, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
Yesterday, the Interior Department's inspector general revealed that 13 government officials " handling billions of dollars in oil royalties improperly engaged in sex with employees of energy . . .
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June 06, 2008 07:15 PM EDT --
Do you remember the good ole' days when gas seemed expensive at $1.87 a gallon? Bill Clinton was President then. It's hard to believe that gas could go up so much in eight years. But then again, . . .
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September 30, 2007 07:51 AM EDT --
Why Climate Change Can't Be Stopped
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3980
PAUL J. SAUNDERS and VAUGHAN TUREKIAN - Foreign Policy
"[...New emissions limits . . .
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November 05, 2009 11:33 AM EST --
T.Walter Herbert has written a slim book that gives well-researched and supported explanations of how the United States could have become embroiled in the morass of Iraq and discarded its own values in . . .
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December 09, 2007 04:38 PM EST --
Water becomes the new oil as the world runs dry. Western companies have the know-how - and the financial incentive to supply water to poor nations. But, as Richard Wachman reports, their . . .
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September 10, 2009 01:49 AM EDT --
(NaturalNews) An oil industry front group has been running ads falsely claiming that taxpayers would bear a heavy cost for measures to reign in runaway global warming, according to a press release from . . .
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July 09, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
Yes, it's oil, but maybe we shouldn't get too excited.
Spurred by an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar and a moderation in the rhetoric over the Iran situation, the price . . .
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July 25, 2006 03:19 AM EDT --
These bumper stickers were compiled by Jerry Paull, a former Methodist minister in Lakeside, Ohio, who writes: The following actual bumper stickers are now on cars. I didn't write . . .
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July 09, 2008 01:49 PM EDT --
There has been quite a bit of finger pointing lately as to whose fault it is that we pay so much at the pump. Some of us blame the oil companies. Some of us blame the government. . . .
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August 15, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
The war between Russia and Georgia is about oil and politics. There is an oil pipeline that goes through Georgia to the Black Sea where freighters pick up the oil and head for Russia. The U.S. is . . .
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May 22, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
Answer: $30
Today's price: $132
Before the Iraq War, Oil was at $30/brl ($1.25 per Gallon at the pump), now Oil is at $132/brl ($4.00 per Gallon at the pump), which translates into about a $4000 . . .
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January 17, 2007 03:17 AM EST --
Proposing the parliamentary motion for war in 2003, Tony Blair denied the "false claim" that "we want to seize" Iraq's oil revenues. He said the money should be put into a trust . . .
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July 23, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
The Nation, in it's July 30, 2007 issue, has an article Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul on the antiwar Texas Republican's pulling more campaign contributions from the . . .
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November 14, 2007 07:04 PM EST --
This article is an analysis of what we have now, and doesn't mention that at the behest of Enron, the oil lobby, and his Buddy Ken Lay, President Bush and the Republican (at the time) . . .
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May 26, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
The proposed Bill, now pending before the U.S. Congress, via its benchmarks, will provide for the privatization of Iraqi oil. It requires the regime in Iraq to pass a law called, "The . . .
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September 14, 2008 02:37 PM EDT --
Gas prices are hitting all-time highs. Our country is in the midst of a recession thanks in part to our crippling dependence on oil, so what's John McCain's plan? Will he hold the . . .
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January 05, 2009 05:46 PM EST --
Barack Obama's transition team is hard at work on an economic stimulus plan. The team hopes to help the United States dig itself out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. To achieve this, . . .
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January 19, 2007 08:29 AM EST --
Okay, it's now unfolding. Before the Iraqis even knew about it, a new oil law was drafted by an American oil company called Bearing Point. A representative has been quietly working in the US . . .
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January 27, 2009 10:31 PM EST --
I received the following message from NRDC Senior Attorney, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., urging concerned Americans to speak out in favor of polar bear protection. Please read the message and respond . . .
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