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Obama To Unveil New Plan To Address Oil Prices

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators...

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Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History

Bill McKibben | Posted 04.05.2012

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Bill McKibben

There's a problem: the very word "subsidies" makes American eyes glaze over. If due attention is to be paid, we have to figure out a language in which to talk about them that will make it clear just how loony our policy is.

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Obama Calls On Congress To End Huge Subsidy

AP | Posted 03.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is renewing his call for Congress to end tax breaks to oil companies. In a Rose Garden speech Thursday, Obama wi...

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Jennifer Bendery

Keystone XL: White House Backs Portion Of Pipeline That Ships U.S. Oil Overseas

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The White House is throwing its support behind a decision by TransCanada to build a portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, even though the...

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President Obama Announces Deal To Boost Fuel Economy, Some Environmentalists Unsatisfied

AP | By DINA CAPPIELLO and TOM KRISHER | Posted 09.27.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ushering in the largest decrease in auto fuel consumption since the 1970s, President Barack Obama and automobile manufacturers Frid...

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Sam Stein

Obama Team: Attacks In Bobby Jindal's Book Are Baseless

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Old wounds were reopened this week as the White House forcefully responded to charges leveled by Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) that Presiden...

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Sam Stein

Gibbs: 'Premature' For Obama To Change Position On Offshore Drilling

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration said on Monday that it remains "premature" to rule out including additional offshore drilling as part of comprehensive energy...

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Michael Brown: Obama Wanted Oil Spill (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bush-era FEMA head Michael Brown accused President Obama Monday of "playing politics" with the Gulf Coast oil spill, claiming that Obama waited for th...

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Sam Stein

Oil Spill Estimate Increased To 35K-60K Barrels A Day

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just hours before the president addresses the nation from the Oval Office, the White House has sent out findings of a new scientific study which pegs ...

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Obama Administration Pushing To Reopen New Offshore Drilling Exploration In Shallow Waters

Wall Street Journal | By LAURA MECKLER and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON--The Obama administration, facing rising anger on the Gulf Coast over the loss of jobs and income from a drilling moratorium, said Monday t...

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Barack Obama: I'm Talking To Gulf Experts 'So I Know Whose Ass To Kick'

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Monday he's been talking closely to Gulf Coast fishermen and various experts on BP's catastrophic oil s...

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Frank Rich On Gulf Oil Spill: Obama's Katrina, Or Worse?

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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For Barack Obama's knee-jerk foes, of course it was his Katrina. But for the rest of us, there's the nagging fear that the largest oil spill in our hi...

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Sam Stein

Bill Nelson: Obama Should Send In Military If BP Can't Stop Leak Today

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With frustration mounting over the inability to stop the oil spilling into the Gulf, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fl.) on Wednesday became the first senator to...

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Sam Stein

Obama Ally Accuses GOP Of Doing Big Oil's Bidding After Gulf Spill (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group allied with the Obama White House released a new television advertisement Wednesday attacking Republicans for foot-dragging on energy legislat...

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President Obama's Pledge to End "The Tyranny Of Oil"; "Peak Oil" Mutating to "Peak Consumption"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raymond J. Learsy

A multiplicity of factors are in play that for the first time will begin to end the oil cabal's long and painful hegemony over our lives.

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The New York Times Wrong-Headedly Propagandizes for an Obama Gasoline Tax

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raymond J. Learsy

A better solution would be a "free market" variation of the gas rationing program that served the nation so well in World War II, bringing a shared sense of mission and dignity to the home front.

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It's Not Oil Supply -- It's the High Fear Hype!

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Clemons

This debate over oil and energy policy disgusts me because both Obama and McCain are trying to force short term, knee jerk responses to a major policy challenge for the nation.

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Obama Delivers a Real Energy Plan for America: Efficiency Now, 10% Renewables by 2012, One Million Plug-ins by 2015

Joseph Romm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph Romm

This is easily the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee of either party. By comparison, the plan of John "Nothing but Nukes" McCain plan is a joke.

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Obama Issues Response To RNC Attack Ad

Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama responds to the RNC's "Balance" ad attacking his energy policy with an ad tying McCain to Bush. "McCain and Bush support a drilling plan that ...

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