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The Billion Dollar Day Extortion: A Somnolent Administration and Dysfunctional Congress' Gift to the American People

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, Dept of Energy, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Opec, Saudi Arabia, President Obama, Oil, Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman, President Bush, Cftc, The Administration, Financial Crisis, Politics, Russia, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

At $80 a barrel, an excess of one billion dollars a day is being lifted from the pockets of the American consumer through higher gas prices, heating bills, lost jobs because of higher industrial feed stock costs.

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Green News Report: July 20, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Cap and Trade, Nasa, Oil Spill Response, Green News Report, Climategate, Coal, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Electric Cars, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, California, Corn, Subsidies, Toxic Chemicals, Geoengineering, American Power Act, Dept of Energy, BRAD BLOG, Noaa, Green News, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Toxic Waste, Ethanol, Extreme Weather, China, Electronic Waste, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Confirmed ...

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If the OPEC Cartel Is Being Tolerated, Why Not a Grain Export Association?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Dept of Energy, Foreign Affairs, Malthus, Farmers, Cftc, Webb-Pomerene Act, Obama Administration, Regional Co-Ops, American Grain Production, Oil, Bloomberg, World-Food-Supplies, Soybeans, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Given OPEC's success, given our tolerance of its activities, given its enormous cost to our society, why should we not, in our own self-interest and in an effort to level the playing field, follow its example?

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The Bush Years' Single Accomplishment: Exxon Mobil's Staggering Record Profit

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Dept of Energy, Wall Street, Saudi Arabia, Exxonmobil, Cheney, Oil, Strategic Petroleum Reseve, Oil-Patch, Dept of Interior, King Fahd, Opec, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

In breathtaking example of the manner in which oil has corrupted the Bush administration we have prima facie evidence of the perverted priorities of the last eight years.

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