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Clean Up That Oil, Stat!
Up to a million gallons of oil spill in North Sea |
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12 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:47 PM on 12 Dec 2007 Perhaps jealous of the recent oil spills in San Francisco, Russia, and South Korea, Norway has had a spill of its very own. Oil company StatoilHydro says a mistake transferring crude from an offshore oil platform to a tanker resulted in up to a million gallons of black liquid flowing into the North Sea. The spill, likely the second-largest in Norwegian history, occurred 125 miles from sho ... |
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They Did It Norway
Norway's high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption |
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02 May 2005 |
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| They Did It Norway Norway's high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption Americans, who view cheap oil as a divine birthright and throw a tantrum when gas prices exceed $2, would surely view Norway as a strange and alien land if they, ahem, knew anything about it. Despite the Scandinavian country's huge oil reserves -- it is the world's third-largest exporter of black gold -- gas prices hover around $6.66 ... |
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