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 Stories About: US Senate AND politics AND oil AND oil and gas drilling AND gas prices
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The art of getting nothing for something
Congressional Dems consider preventing oil drilled offshore from export |
Adam Stein |
10 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Any article on how politicians are gearing up to 'do something' about oil prices is bound to contain more than the usual share of silliness. Still, though, this managed to stop me cold: [Senator Harry Reid] also hinted at a potential element of compromise legislation: that any oil produced from wider access to federal lands off shore be reserved for domestic use and barred from export. Such a policy would, of course, be utterly useless in our highly integrated internati ... |
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| Topics: gas prices, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Senate (all these topics) |
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