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Obama renews call for investment in efficient energy
US President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his call for developing new technologies that would reduce dependence on fossil fuels and shift American cars and trucks off petroleum gas. “The only way we’re going to break this cycle of spiking gas prices for good is to shift our cars and…
SNL: Romney vows to legalize mass bird killing at presidential debate
Continuing his anti-bird policies, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney vowed to allow the mass killing of birds to lower gas prices in Saturday Night Live‘s version of the second presidential debate. During the debate, Romney and Obama nearly came to blows on multiple occasions — and Romney’s oldest son, Tagg,…
Obama presses lawmakers to cut oil tax breaks
US President Barack Obama pressed lawmakers Thursday to cut tax breaks for the petroleum sector, saying they can “stand with big oil companies, or they can stand with the American people.” Obama, under pressure in an election year over a surge in fuel costs, said the nation cannot afford the subsidies at a time…
Obama calls for investment in clean energy
US President Barack Obama called on Congress Saturday to invest more money in clean energy technologies and end multi-billion-dollar subsidies given each year to oil companies. “I want this Congress to stop the giveaways to an oil industry that’s never been more profitable, and invest in a clean energy industry…
Obama slams rivals over ‘phony’ $2 gas plans
President Barack Obama on Wednesday rebuked foes who promise “three-point plans for two dollar gas,” aiming to deflect election year attacks sparked by rising US petrol prices. Obama’s remarks came as he traveled to the swing state of North Carolina to visit a Daimler Trucks plant to tout a new…
Obama calls for new energy technologies
President Barack Obama called on Saturday for the development of new technologies to help tackle America’s energy problems and the scrapping of a $4-billion-dollar tax break for oil companies. “We’ve got to develop new technology that will help us use new forms of energy,” Obama said in his radio and…
O’Malley mocks Gingrich on $2.50 gas: He also promised moon colonies
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley on Sunday suggested that Newt Gingrich’s recent promises about lowering the price of gas in America were absurd. Gingrich vowed to get gas prices down to $2.50 per gallon if elected president by increasing domestic energy production. But economists noted that the U.S. would have to…
‘Activists’ pray for lower gas prices
The last time Rocky Twyman and friends invoked the power of prayer to pull down the price of gasoline was in 2008, when a gallon of regular was going for a US national average of $4.12 in mid-summer. God must have been listening: prices did fall, all the way to…
Obama goes on offensive as gasoline prices soar
MIAMI — US President Barack Obama tried to head off Republican criticism over rising gasoline prices Thursday, ridiculing their responses as bumper-sticker policies designed to win an election, not to solve the problem. Visiting the hard-hit election battleground of Florida, a feisty Obama responded to a barrage of Republican criticism…
Take the train and take your life back
Via Brian, a story from Florida about how the surge in train use hasn’t gone down as much as you’d think as gas prices creep down to where they were. This was my concern as I saw gas prices start going down at the pump. (In Austin, it’s below $2…
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