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On The Hill: On Eve Of National Energy Summit, Poll Finds Most Expect Congress To Sink Pickens Plan
Posted by mediaman
Although a vast majority of Americans believe the comphensive and much-touted "Pickens Plan" for energy independence can succeed, they think Congress ultimately will kill it.
Energy Policy TV - Teleconference Preview of Clean Energy Summit
Posted by mediaman
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV); T. Boone Pickens, Energy Executive, Author of Pickens Plan; Daniel Weiss, Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy, Center for American Progress
Reid, Pickens, and Weiss speak with reporters to preview the bipartisan National Clean Energy Summit to be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Organizers want the Summit to produce energy recommendations to Congress as well as the 2008 presidential candidates.
IDF vets who trained Georgia troops say war with Russia is no surp
Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
For the past few days, since fighting broke out in the Caucasus, 24-year-old L. from central Israel has been trying to phone the group of Georgian combat soldiers he had been training in Georgia up to a few months ago.
Congress Opens Self To Law Suit Over Oil Prices | I'm A Pundit Too
Posted by theauthor from Thenewpundit
Let me start out by saying that this isn't going to go over very well at all, but that never stopped me before. I have decided that it is indeed time to sue the US Congress over the high price of energy, and the bill they tried to pass earlier this year has opened them up to the suit. Now, it seems that if anyone were to be able to sue the government, it would be the oil companies who are being restricted. However, I discovered something recently. I discovered that I am the one paying 50 bucks a week to fill up my 4 cylinder Saturn. I also got an interesting email from Florida Power and Light.
Why more U.S. drilling may not be a quick fix - Jul. 21, 2008
Posted by marcuscrockett2 from CNN
Drilling offshore will only give us emotional peace and won't do much to help with $4.00/gallon gas. We will feel better now if we know there will be oil available in the future.
Thomas Friedman: 9/11 and 4/11
Posted by Jeff from New York Times
What doesn't the Bush crowd get? It's this: We don't have a "gasoline price problem." We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways. It is intensifying global warming, creating runaway global demand for oil and gas, weakening our currency by shifting huge amounts of dollars abroad to pay for oil imports, widening "energy poverty" across Africa, destroying plants and animals at record rates and fostering ever-stronger petro-dictatorships in Iran, Russia and Venezuela.
New Hampshire To Accept Free Oil From Chavez
Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil. With the state's blessing, New Hampshire residents will be receiving some of the fuel this winter.
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