motherjones.com - 12/3/2008
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Obama talked about a windfall profits tax as early as April. As crude oil prices topped $110 a barrel, Obama promised to "put a windfall profits tax on oil companies and use it to help ... families pay their heating and cooling bills and reduce energy costs." And in August, the Democratic ...
salon.com - 12/4/2008
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salon.com —
Dec. 4, 2008 | Has any U.S. president
come into office with higher expectations from foreign countries?
Perhaps the greatest expectation is that Barack Obama will reverse George W. Bush's all-too-successful eight-year effort to thwart international ...
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Obama, China, global warming
energytechstocks.com.previewmysite.com - 12/8/2008
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energytechstocks.com.previewmysite.com —
Posted: December 8, 2008 On Saturday President-elect Obama
pledged the biggest road and bridge construction program since
the 1950s. But has anyone in Washington asked Wilson County, Tennessee road superintendent Steve Armistead about the price of ...
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Energy Tech Stocks – The Financial News Site for ...
abcnews.go.com - 12/10/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
'We Can't Kill the Business Climate,' Says Missouri
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) By TEDDY DAVIS Dec. 9,
2008 One of Barack Obama's closest allies in the Senate said Tuesday that she hopes the economic downturn can induce the incoming president to delay ...
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Obama Ally Wants Delay in Cap-and-Trade
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Obama's First Policy Retreat?
Peak Oil News —
... "There's not always a correlation between the price of a barrel of oil and what we're paying at the pump," Chapman said. "The oil and gas companies are clearly making excessive profits. They've taken advantage of the fact that there's no regulation of that industry and overcharged at the pump and hurt our economy. The excessive profits tax is based on the excessive profits they've made in the last eight years. The tax was to get some of that money back for the American people." Mother Jones
DrumBeat: December 4, 2008
The Oil Drum —
... since explorer John Wesley Powell boated through in 1896, and a canyon decorated with thousands of ancient rock art panels have been pulled off the auction block by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
For the second time in a week, the bureau announced late Tuesday that it was pulling auction parcels from an expanded oil-and-gas leasing program in Utah. The latest tracts include land inside Nine Mile Canyon and Desolation Canyon on the Green River.
Obama's First Policy Retreat?
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