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Summer Gas Prices, Consumption Expected to Drop
KickingTiresIf government projections hold true, Americans this year will pay the lowest summer gas prices they have in two years. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported this week that the price for a gallon of regular gas is expected to......Tags: Environmental Issues, AAA, Petroleum Industry, Energy Saving, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Gas Could Fall to $3 by Autumn
KickingTiresThe last time the national average price for regular unleaded gasoline fell below $3 a gallon was Christmas 2010, but it could hit that mark long before you hang this year's mistletoe. Citing falling tensions in the Middle East, fewer......Tags: Environmental Issues, Holidays, Petroleum Industry, Energy Saving, Vehicles
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How Gas Could Hit $6 a Gallon
KickingTiresThe national average gas price eclipsed $3.90 last week, leaving March auto sales awash in high-mpg choices. With two new variants hitting dealerships, the Toyota Prius saw its best sales month in nearly 12 years of U.S. sales. Half of......Tags: Petroleum Industry, Dodge, Iran's Nuclear Program, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Vehicles
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Economy's Silver Lining: Gas Prices Plummet
KickingTiresWhile most economic news has been dismal lately, there???s at least one bright spot to the recent downturn ??? a reprieve from rising gas prices. After five straight weeks of increases at the gas pump, prices fell 3.7 cents to......Tags: Petroleum Industry, Energy Saving, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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2011 Begins With Gas Price Spike
KickingTiresDrivers across the country saw gas prices leap over the past few weeks, hitting a national average today of $3.09 for a gallon of regular. ???It sucks, but you have no choice,??? said Curtis Carter, 32, as he filled up......Tags: Petroleum Industry, Energy Saving, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, BP Plc
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Why Is Gas So Expensive?
KickingTiresGas prices hit the $4-per-gallon mark in Southern California and Chicago this weekend, and the national average price for a gallon regular unleaded breached the $3.50 mark, according to AAA. Prices for 2011 were already supposed to be some of......Tags: Petroleum Industry, Saudi Arabia, Travel, Getaway Travel, Energy Saving
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Is Fed's Bernanke signaling rate hikes?
The Swampby Frank James Speaking in Boston last night, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said some things that can be interpreted as a signal that the recent bad jobs report won't cause the central bank to lower interest rates again and,......Tags: Ben Bernanke, Career and Workplace, Prices, Unemployment, Inflation and Deflation
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White House threatens veto: Energy bill
The Swampby Mark Silva Gasoline has passed $4 per gallon, on average - when first presented with the possibility that prices might reach that mark, at the end of February, President Bush said he "hadn't heard that.'' Now that everyone has......Tags: George W. Bush, Zoology, Gasoline Industry, Science, Harry Reid
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Oil hits record; even Saudis can't save us
The Swampby Frank James Well, so much for Saudi Arabia's plan to lower world oil prices by promising to produce more oil. Crude oil futures rose to nearly $140-a-barrel before deciding that it had scared the bejesus out of everyone......Tags: Foreign Exchange Market, Environmental Issues, Softball, Prices, Energy Saving
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Can U.S. still afford oil-drilling bans?
The Swampby Frank James Has the U.S. passed the point where it can enjoy the luxury of restricting drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf and even the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? That is clearly the decision that's been made by Sen.......Tags: George W. Bush, Environmental Issues, Energy Saving, Natural Resources, Government
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Oil's well: Digging into Iraq, not off-shore
The SwampIn this 2006 file photo, the Discoverer Deep Seas drillship sits on station off the coast of Louisiana as Chevron drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) by Mark Silva It appears that Western oil......Tags: George W. Bush, Environmental Issues, Energy Saving, Government, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Bernanke: Pricey gas not from chicanery
The Swampby Frank James Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke spent much of his time on Capitol Hill today discussing the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac crisis as well as the outlook for the nation's economy. However, in his prepared testimony and......Tags: Ben Bernanke, Environmental Issues, Daniel Akaka, Petroleum Industry, Freddie Mac
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