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Reuters

An advisory panel appointed by California's governor urged the state to impose a new tax on gasoline, diesel fuel and other petroleum products to fund efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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UPI

Former Department of Defense adviser Richard Perle, the immensely influential godfather of the neo-conservative movement, launched a public broadside against the alleged corruption of the Saudi Arabian government calling on the US to cease its friend

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Washington Post

Executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

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Reuters

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) accepted a deal with Enron Corp. worth $1.5 billion to settle allegations that the fallen energy giant manipulated electricity supplies during the 2000-01 Western power crisis.

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Reuters

Generating electricity using the heat of ancient rocks buried deep below the red sands of the Australian outback? "This is the best spot in the world, a geological freak, it's really quite serendipitous, the way temperature, tectonics, insul

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by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe)

WHAT WOULD you call a return of $850,000 on an investment of just $20? A windfall? A rip-off? If such a killing were made by someone who was already a multimillionaire, would you be outraged? Would you insist that his bonanza be slapped with a stiff

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by Sheldon Richman (FFF)

Like you, I was embarrassed by those senators holding the hearing on oil-company prices and profits the other day. Those senators made such fools of themselves for one reason only — to impress you and me. Of course, we saw through their stunt.

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Reuters

The U.S. Energy Secretary would gain authority to temporarily ban exports of American-produced gasoline, heating oil and other refined petroleum products during a supply emergency, under legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate.

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The Raw Story

Buried in the the Wall Street Journal, Steven D. Jones reveals: "Oil companies operating in the U.S. typically pay taxes at or above the 35% rate on corporate profits. But for about one in four big oil companies, tax rates have fallen recently,

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Reuters

There are 63 wind turbines on 3,500 acres of corn and soybean fields that Cradduck and eight other neighboring farmers lease to a company that built and manages the 2-year-old $70 million project.

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TMA is a renewable energy company involved in the development, manufacture, and marketing of vertical axis wind energy turbines and hybrid energy systems including a revolutionary wind turbine design.

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"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to

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But the measure passed only after what was supposed to be a five-minute vote was extended by 40 minutes, to grant former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and other GOP leaders time to persuade enough reluctant Northeast Republicans to support the leg

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Gasoline prices will continue to rise as a consequence of our wars, our mishandled currency and our lawyers.

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