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Gasoline Prices Highest Since 2008
KickingTiresNational gasoline prices reached an average of $3.14 a gallon this week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That means gas prices today are 53 cents more per gallon compared with a year ago and the highest prices we???ve......Tags: New York Mercantile Exchange, Petroleum Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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As $4 Gas Approaches, Americans Buy Less
KickingTiresThe average price for a gallon of gas was up yet again over the weekend and is 11 cents higher than last week, settling at $3.77 nationally. At that rate we'll see $4 gas by early May, but drivers have......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, New York Mercantile Exchange, American Petroleum, Petroleum Industry
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Gas Prices Fall Going Into Memorial Day Weekend
KickingTiresAs of this morning, the average regular gas price stood at $3.84 a gallon nationally, according to the AAA. While still high, it???s a far cry from the year???s high of $3.98 a gallon, which we saw nationally on May......Tags: Prices, Automotive Equipment, AAA, Petroleum Industry, Memorial Day
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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: Economy, Business and Finance, Prices, Science and Technology, Zoology, Government
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Oil speculation bigger than we knew
The Swampby Frank James For the past few months as oil-futures prices were breaking records with a barrel of oil topping out around $150, Many congressional Democrats raised concerns about speculators in the "dark" market driving up those crude-oil prices....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Prices, Energy Saving, Petroleum Industry, Government
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Bush: Oil-drilling, hurricanes and storms
The Swampby Mark Silva President Bush is trying to change the subject. The subject all week and this coming week: Hurricanes and tropical storms. The ones that have passed and the ones coming. The story line is good: Recovery efforts so......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Weather, Government, Emergency Incidents, Hybrid Vehicles
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Consumer prices see record drop
The Swampby Frank James The good news is the economic slowdown caused prices in October to fall by the largest monthly percentage ever recorded. Consumers should be pretty pleased, right? Not necessarily. Because the bad news is this could signal even......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Consumers, Consumer Confidence, Economy
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Consumer prices see record drop in Nov.
The Swampby Frank James More concerns today about the dreaded economic possibility of deflation, the phenomenon where prices fall throughout the economy, reducing the power of companies and workers to charge what they need to in order to make ends meet.......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Federal Reserve, Central Bank, Energy, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Dopp bops ethics cops: Ex-Spitzer aide blasts probe
Spin CycleFormer Gov. Eliot Spitzer's one-time public-relations aide Darren Dopp, who was caught in the center of his boss's get-Bruno blowup, says he won't participate in his ethics hearing Wednesday, citing legal action he filed late Monday against the state........Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Ethics, Government
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Boehner, Blunt: Now, let's drill
The Swampby Matthew Hay Brown The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to suspend shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the House is expected to follow suit momentarily. House Republican leaders say the move, intended to reduce prices at the pump by......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Upper House, Prices, Government, National Government
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Fed catches a break on inflation
The Swampby Frank James The big sigh of relief that could be heard emanating from the far end of Constitution Ave. nearest the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. was the sound of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke exhaling. That's because today's......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Federal Reserve, Consumer Confidence, Ben Bernanke, Economy
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A right and proper death of the euro
William PfaffPARIS -- When the proposal was initially made for a common European currency, it seemed to this writer to be a good idea, with the flaw that it wouldn't work. Although inexpert in economics (being a product of the age of arithmetic), it struck me as an...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, American Civil War (1861-1865), International Organizations, Tea Party Movement, Foreign Exchange Market
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