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Stephanie Cutter: Get the facts on Mitt Romney, Big Oil, and the Koch Brothers

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Teens Set Kid on Fire for Being 'White Boy'

A 13-year-old boy who police say was doused with gasoline and lit on fire last week... more

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Olbermann: ‘Almost deliberate’ gas price hikes are to hurt Obama

By David Edwards Sunday, April 22, 2012 14:23 EDT Liberal commentator Keith... more

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IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium-air battery

A new kind of battery that can compete with gazoline

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ENOUGH Wingnut Guff About Gasoline Prices!

Really. 'Nuff.

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Romney: ‘No question’ Obama wanted higher gas prices

By David Edwards Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:52 EDT Republican presidential... more

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Obama to AIPAC: ‘Loose talk of war’ inflating gas prices

By David Edwards Sunday, March 4, 2012 14:15 EST President Barack Obama on Sunday... more

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Who’s really behind $5 gasoline?

Gas prices are predicted to go up to $5 in the summer. The timing smells. I may be... more

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Oil Companies Creating Special Packaging for $5-a-Gallon Gas (Satire)

Houston, Texas -- As gasoline prices ratchet up past the $4-a-gallon mark, the oil industry is preparing a more luxurious way to present its increasingly costly product to consumers.

“Think expensive fragrances, top-shelf liquor and premium cosmetic formulas,” said John “Wildcat” Crenshaw, Vice President of the Petroleum Marketers Association.
“They’re not pumped and purchased like raw sewage. They’re bottled in designer glass, packaged in attractive wrappings, and branded with memorable names and taglines.

“When gas reaches $5 a gallon, it joins the list of a luxury items. That means we’ve got to give it the same treatment.”

Crenshaw previewed the branding efforts of several major oil corporations. Shell Oil will be offering a faux crystal decanter that carries the brand name “Extinction” and the slogan “Refined from 100% white meat dinosaur.”

Chevron will be bottling its fuel in “futuristic/retro” containers under the “Dilithium” brand. “Warping without the whining” is the enterprising tagline here.

Exxon-Mobil’s entry into luxury gas branding is called “Tiger,” in tribute to when Exxon used to invite drivers to “put a tiger in your tank.”

The gas comes in a fiberglass tiger head vessel. And for every 100 gallons purchased, an actual tiger will be “rescued” from the wild so it can “run away” with a circus. “Exxon just loves to find ways to piss off PETA,” Crenshaw explained.

British Petroleum is taking a more realistic approach, marketing its gas in gallon metal drums that resemble the barrels in which refined oil is transported. Sold under the “Gusher” brand-name, BP’s luxury product will carry the slogan “Don’t spill. Don’t tell.”

Crenshaw finished his presentation by pointing out the cost of the proposed packaging will raise the price of gas to over $10 a gallon.

“That actually is an advantage,” he said. “The higher the price, the more luxurious the product, which justifies our luxury branding. Besides, if the oil companies are selling less gallons, they need to make higher profits on every gallon they do sell. That makes luxury a necessity.”Houston, Texas -- As gasoline prices ratchet up past the $4-a-gallon mark, the oil... more

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Caro benzina e diesel... che fare?

Bella domanda alla quale non è semplice rispondere. E per favore, smettiamola... more

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Urban Mobility 2011: SCION iQ

Concept vehicles like Terreform's Hug n' Kiss land car, Gordon Murray's... more

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Wake’N'Bake 101: Word Problems

I was chatting via Zuckerberg’s Folly with a chap in Ireland the other day and... more

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TAX YOU, "WHO", MORE FOR TRANSPORTATION ?

Wake me from this twilight zone nightmare, please ?!? Considering the high price that... more

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WHO'S CREATING THE ENERGY CRISIS?

A WAR TIME EFFORT, EQUALLING THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, AT LEAST, WOULD MAKE US ENERGY INDEPENDENT IN A COUPLE OF YEARS ONLY!

Energy in general, and the cost of oil/gasoline in particular, with their exhaustive drain on consumer purchasing power and adding prohibitively to the cost of most production, has been a NATIONAL CRISIS for some time now. Why then, is this most essential issue still being dallied with, and treated like something that we have to get around to, sometime, when it's "really" necessary.

While the "greatest" country in the world is dragging it's feet on the issue, Europe and China are racing ahead with plans to build enough high tech solar power collectors to power all of Europe: ( http://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-solar-project-sahara-desert/ )

The priceofoil.org lays out how the subsidies which are given to the oil industry in exchange for large campaign contributions to legislators, are preventing the development of, and move towards clean sustainable energy. In other words, legislators are holding the entire nation, and our entire population, hostage to bankrupting oil dependency in exchange for campaign c ontributions. To make matters worse, they're giving Big Oil large sums of your money, and only getting back pennies on the dollar in campaign contributions. It's estimated that the various forms of subsidies given to oil this year tally in the range of 90 billion dollars! ( http://priceofoil.org/thepriceofoil/clean-energy/ ) ( http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0309/Budget-hawks-Does-US-need-to-give-gas-and-oil-companies-41-billion-a-year )

One can only conclude from all of this information, that the absence of campaign finance reform and the end of corporate personhood, which permits and fosters legislative corruption and the legislative betrayal of this country, for forty pieces of silver in the form of campaign contributions, is what is preventing this country from solving it's energy crisis and holding us hostage to foreign oil! And if this isn't a breach of legislative fiduciary to the people of the United States, can anyone clarify what is?A WAR TIME EFFORT, EQUALLING THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, AT LEAST, WOULD MAKE US ENERGY... more

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Sweet solution: Sugarcane helps cool climate

Sugarcane is not only a major source for producing a biofuel alternative to gasoline,... more

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Researchers use bacteria to produce potential gasoline replacement directly from cellulose

With the situation in Libya causing a spike in fuel prices worldwide there's some... more

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Gas Prices Soar as Obama Killed Oil Drilling

As you watch the prices of gasoline soar and see it eat into your wallet, perhaps you... more

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Egypt turmoil triggers oil price hike

The ongoing political turbulence in Egypt has already shown its effect on the global... more

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Water Powered Cars are not a Myth

Stanley Meyer Dead? Stanley Meyer was a maverick inventor who designed an auto engine... more

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California Braces for Conservatives' Showdown on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

he New York Times September 16, 2010 California Braces for Showdown on Emissions... more

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