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Copenhagen and Home
14 hours ago ago from Zippidy Doo Da
I heard a story on Marketplace recently about how the Japanese, who import all their fuel, have really gotten religion since the first oil price shocks in the 1970’s. After three decades of investment in conservation and efficiency with no backsliding like some people(us), their per capita energy usage is now just half that of ours. I would suggest that we aren’t considering the true cost of our energy use. The 13 million barrels of oil we ...
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22 hours ago ago from Lair of the Bear
This one goes out to my mother and other lefties who continue to believe that the U.S. invaded Iraq SEVEN years ago to appropriate Iraqi oil resources for U.S. oil companies. It turns out that the Iraq Oil Ministry auctioned off ten contracts last week to develop certain oil fields and only two U.S. companies were involved in winning bids: Exxon took time out from its pursuit of XTO to lead one winning consortium while Occidental won a ...
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6 hours ago ago from UNITED STATEDUNITED STATED
UNITED STATED President Barack Obama's $1 trillion health-care overhaul won't buy corporate America relief from medical costs that more than doubled in the last decade, chief executive officers of more than a dozen U.S. companies said. Private companies, providers of benefits to 132 million Americans, will see little savings from legislation under debate in Congress, CEOs at United Parcel Service Inc., Safeway Inc. and Verizon ...
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13 hours ago ago from Libertarian Romantic Ideal
The Moral Imperative to Provide Health Care to All No Matter What the Cost Kirsten Powers in an op-ed in The New York Post makes the same immoral and irrational case that has been at the heart of useful idiot doctors’ push for State run national health care. What will health-care reform cost? This question has become the obsession distracting us from the moral imperative to provide health care to all Americans. The ...
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16 hours ago ago from Winds of Change.NET
Reuters: " No boon for U.S. firms in Iraq oil deal auction ." bq. "United States oil majors were largely absent from an Iraqi auction of oil deals snapped up instead by Russian, Chinese and other firms.... The Oil Ministry on Saturday ended its second bidding round after awarding seven of the oilfields offered for development, adding to deals from a first auction in June that could together take Iraq up to a capacity to pump 12 million ...
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Andrew Guzman: The True Costs of Climate Change
49 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to discuss possible responses to climate change, debate continues within the United States about what this country's role in fighting global warming should be. Underlying the entire debate is the question of what we are prepared to pay to reduce our own emissions. Before we decide how much we're willing to spend to mitigate climate change, we need to know what it will cost if we don't. The conventional ...
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22 hours ago ago from CNN Money
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2 hours ago ago from CNN Money
TRADING CENTER Oil steadies after a 9-day retreat December 15, 2009: 9:38 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) -- Oil paused on Tuesday below $70 a barrel after falling for nine straight days, its longest continuous decline in eight years, as markets looked to U.S. storage data and dollar movements for further direction. U.S. crude for January delivery rose six cents to $69.57 ...
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3 hours ago ago from CNN Money
Wholesale prices rise 1.8% in November December 15, 2009: 8:50 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) -- U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in November, lifted by a surge in energy costs, and recorded the first year-on-year gain since last November, according to a government report on Tuesday. The Labor Department said the seasonally adjusted index for prices paid at the farm and factory gate jumped 1.8%, the largest gain in three months, ...
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