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Oil Prices Soar: What Are You Cutting Back On?

The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Per Gallon, Oil Price Per Barrel, Political Turmoil, Federal Reserve, US Economy, Libya, Oil Price, Middle East, Libya Oil, Cheap Oil, Oil Prices, Price Per Barrel, Oil, Ben Bernanke, Slidepollajax, Business News

With the average price of gasoline now above $3.50 per gallon, we asked our readers what spiking oil prices would cause them to cut down on. (See what...

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Obama's Fiscal Stimulus No Substitute for Cheap Oil

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Economic Stimulus, Federal Budget Deficit, Barack Obama, Cheap Oil, Bush Tax Cuts, Business News
Jeffrey Rubin

Feed the US economy cheap oil, and you'll see robust growth rates and a drop in the jobless rate to four-decade lows -- no matter who's in the White House. But throw in $147-per-barrel oil, and the US economy stops dead in its tracks.

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Pioneers of the New Normal

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: New Normal, Local Businesses, CEO Pay, Natural Resources, Economy, Resilience, Green Energy, Gulf Oil Spill, Transition, Wall Street, Michael Klare, Local Food, Local Economies, Water, Credit Union, Cheap Oil, Oil Prices, Economic Recovery, Climate Change, Home News
Sarah van Gelder

Americans are facing a troubling reality. The economic recovery we were promised has not materialized. There's growing talk about a "new normal"--a ne...

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Which Is Worse For Green Energy? Cheap Oil Or Financial Crisis

The Wall Street Journal | Keith Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, T. Boone Pickens, Tesla Motors, Crude Oil Prices, Alternative Energy, Cheap Oil, Oil Prices, Oil, Environment, Financial Crisis, Clean Energy, Opec, Financial Meltdown, Green News

Oil prices plummeted again Thursday, falling under $70 a barrel for the first time in more than a year. That kicked OPEC into action--the oil cartel...

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