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The Republican Road to Recovery, talks about clean energy alternatives, but focuses on coal, oil, oil shale, offshore drilling, and nuclear power.

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1 Pound of Gasoline = 3 Pounds of Carbon Dioxide

by L J Furman on December 17, 2008

) which is approximately 360 billion pounds of gas (each gallon of gas is 5.8 to 6.5 pounds). Water isn't normally thought of as a pollutant.  Up till November 13, the EPA refused to think of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, but big storms and rising sea levels are among the problems [...]

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GREENSPAN: “IRAQ WAR ABOUT OIL”

by L J Furman on August 11, 2008

Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil: “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”

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Cryptogonpoints out this piece in the Times which suggests that the Saudis are producing at exceptionally high capacity, trying to limit price increases. From  Plan Would Lift Saudi Oil Output, from the June 14th times:Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a [...]

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