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    <title><![CDATA[Grist Feed: Arctic Refuge]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alaska Dem. kicks off Congress with call for ANWR drilling]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/The-six-year-Begich/</link>
            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:25:10 -0800</pubDate>
            <author>Kate Sheppard</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann lowered gas prices]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/michele-bachmann-lowered-gas-prices/</link>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:48:31 -0700</pubDate>
            <author>David Roberts</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Senate race in North Carolina finds both candidates slinging oil]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/carolina-on-my-mind/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:09:29 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can you see Russia from behind that skirt?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:54:58 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Couric and Palin, on drilling and climate change]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:09:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[by David Roberts <br>Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit <a href="http://www.grist.org">www.grist.org</a>.<br><br></br></br></a></br>    <p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p>

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            <title><![CDATA[Palin: &#8216;renewables are not yet proven to be economic nor reliable&#8217;]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/fossil-blindness/</link>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:52:43 -0700</pubDate>
            <author>David Roberts</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[by David Roberts <br>Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit <a href="http://www.grist.org">www.grist.org</a>.<br><br></br></br></a></br>    <p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p>

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            <title><![CDATA[McCain&#8217;s veep pick talks energy, ANWR, and the improbability of being tapped for VP]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/alaska-gov-sarah-palin-on-cnbcs-kudlow-company/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:27:59 -0700</pubDate>
            <author>Sara Barz</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[GOP leaders unveil new energy bill that calls for some of everything and lots of drilling]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/all-of-the-above/</link>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:26:12 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Memo calling for increased offshore drilling and shale development]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/house-gop-offers-americans-false-hope-failed-policies-and-eco-havoc/</link>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:19:16 -0700</pubDate>
            <author>Joseph Romm</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conservation good.&nbsp; Drilling stupid]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/conservation-good-drilling-stupid/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:37:42 -0700</pubDate>
            <author>Andrew Dessler</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[by Andrew Dessler <br>Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit <a href="http://www.grist.org">www.grist.org</a>.<br><br></br></br></a></br>    <p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p>

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            <title><![CDATA[Conservative arguments to the contrary are intellectually bankrupt]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/why-more-drilling-is-not-the-answer/</link>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:47:01 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain says he&#8217;s willing to &#8216;examine&#8217; his stance against drilling in ANWR]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/happy-go-drilly/</link>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:17:56 -0700</pubDate>
            <author>Kate Sheppard</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain adviser on oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/simply-so-special/</link>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:39:53 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Republicans exanding their drill base, at least to other Republicans]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/drill-on-the-hill/</link>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:01:58 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Drilling in ANWR still isn&#8217;t the solution to high gas prices]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/the-will-to-be-ignorant/</link>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:22:31 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Opening ANWR cuts gas prices $0.02 in 2025]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/your-two-cents/</link>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:13:22 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ExxonMobil&#8217;s profits huge; shares fall anyway]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/when-109-billion-is-just-not-enough/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 07:05:40 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Note to Bush, media: Opening ANWR cuts gas prices one cent in 2025]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/a-penny-saved/</link>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:43:18 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush&#8217;s energy/food strategy unsurprisingly underwhelming]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/anwr-nukes-more-ethanol-new-technology-blah-blah-blah/</link>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:49:44 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[President Bush stumps for ANWR drilling and dirty-energy expansion]]></title>
            <link>http://www.grist.org/article/bush_speech1/</link>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:17:00 -0700</pubDate>
            <author>Grist</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[by Grist <br>Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit <a href="http://www.grist.org">www.grist.org</a>.<br><br>

<p>In a speech Tuesday, President Bush aimed to pacify Americans' concerns about skyrocketing fuel and food prices with the assurance that it's all Congress' fault. Bush advocated tackling energy prices by throwing environmental protection to the winds (in not quite those words), urging Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and rah-rah-ing new coal and nuclear power plants. Bush also expressed openness, though not support, to a <a href="http://grist.org/news/2008/04/29/gasTax/">summer-long gas-tax suspension</a>, an idea backed by presidential contenders John McCain and Hillary Clinton but not Barack Obama.</p>

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