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Senate Democrats fail to get enough votes to end tax breaks for oil companies

A bill to end tax breaks for Big Oil companies failed to pass the Senate on Tuesday.With gas prices throughout the country averaging nearly $4 a...
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Democrats to question Big Oil executives on gas prices, record profits

Senate Democrats announced their drive to end federal subsidies for Big Oil companies on Wednesday beginning with a committee hearing and ending...
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Boehner gives opening for White House, Democrats to urge end to oil subsidies

The White House and Democrats seized on House Speaker John Boehner’s comment that oil subsidies for major oil companies should be eliminated...
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Big oil billionaires linked to climate denial 'science'

  • global warming denial
  • February 20, 2011
It doesn’t take a scientist to understand that “throw-away” economics must cease if we are to allow for this planet to sustain...
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Turkish official: Arrest 174 Israelis who killed 9 human rights Gaza aid workers

Following the U.N. report saying Israel used unreasonable force in the commando "Marmara Raid" on the humanitarian aid Flotilla in the...
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GOP adds big oil tax breaks to deficit

May 18, 2011 Ending taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies would have reduced federal deficit spending by more than $20 billionover 10 years....
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Why did George Bush reject Taliban's offer to deliver bin Laden?

Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden May 1, 2011, the media has been inundated with articles about the attack, the secrecy of the attack,...
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Cap & trade: Issa accuses Obama of 'artificially maintaining high gas prices'

"This administration has a vested interest in doing cap and trade or cap and tax - someway, somehow," laughs Republican Congressman,...
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Record gas prices and record profits blamed on oil market speculators

  • Gas Price Record
  • April 25, 2011
Oil market speculators predicting increased violence in the Middle East has led to record gas prices across the U.S. today. Projected record...
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