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 Stories About: severe weather AND oil AND oil and gas drilling AND Congress AND politics
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Here comes the story of the hurricane
If we're already in energy crisis, what happens when a major Gulf storm hits? |
Miles Grant |
10 Jul 2008 |
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| Yesterday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said he'd be open to letting Big Oil drill on previously-protected public lands. And now this: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on President Bush to release oil from the government's emergency reserve to knock down gasoline prices she says 'are helping push the economy toward recession.'Pelosi, D-Calif., in a letter to Bush noted that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been used three times before and each time th ... |
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| Topics: Congress, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, severe weather (all these topics) |
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