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Perdue Delayed Asking For Gas Shortage Help
Governor Is In Europe On Week-Long Trip
ATLANTA -- While other southeastern states were asking for help with gas shortages, Gov. Sonny Perdue waited a week before requesting a waiver freeing up extra gas for Georgia.
Officials in Kentucky asked on Monday, Sept. 15, for a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency to lift restrictions requiring special gas. It was granted the following day.
Virginia and Tennessee also asked for similar waivers after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike struck the Gulf Coast, knocking out oil refineries.
On Sept. 22, a week after Kentucky's request, Gov. Perdue sent a letter to the EPA. The agency granted the waiver for Georgia the next day.
The waiver from the EPA lifts restrictions requiring gas stations to sell reformulated gas in metro Atlanta and other areas of Georgia.
Critics said more gas would be flowing into Georgia if Perdue had acted faster.
“By not managing this, by not reacting, not working steadily with the EPA, not having this relationship, not maintaining it, it drags until there’s another crisis and who gets hurt are the working people,” said Rep. Dubose Porter, (D) House Minority Leader.
Distributors Channel 2 talked with said they gave Perdue’s office a heads up three weeks ago that the crisis would likely happen because of a one-two punch from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Add to that the fact supplies are normally low this time of year as refineries switch from a summer to winter gas formula.
“This is the same pattern we’ve seen of waiting too long. There’s got to be that leadership whether it’s transportation, education or here in a gas crisis,” said Porter.
“The people who would criticize that, they don’t understand the way we’re working with the EPA. We were talking with them everyday and timing the request so we could get a positive response,” said Perdue’s press secretary Bert Brantley.
Gov. Perdue left Saturday on a week-long economic development mission to Spain, Portugal and Italy.Perdue Delayed Asking For Gas Shortage Help
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Some U.S. motorists sick of getting clobbered at the pump seem willing to do just about anything for free fuel, from giving up the right to name their children to stealing from day-care centers to donating blood.
In Orlando, Florida, David Partin pledged to name his son after local radio hosts to win a $100 gas card as part of a contest. Partin will collect the card in December, when his son is born, if he can produce a birth certificate proving the baby is named Dixon Willoughby Partin, after the hosts.
"(His wife said) this is his problem to explain when the child is older," Greg Stevens, WHTQ-FM program director told Reuters.
At the Shady Lady Ranch brothel in Beatty, Nevada, clients who spend $300 or more this month will receive $50 gas vouchers as part of a promotion to beat the summer slump in business.
"It's rocking along. We're doing quite well. June and July historically are not big months," said James Davis, who co-owns the ranch with his wife, Bobbi.
The first $1,000 in gas cards were given out within a week, he added.
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MONTPELLIER, France: Winemakers in southern France have burned two police cars and vandalized supermarkets during protests to demand government aid.
Vintners in the Languedoc-Roussillon region have been protesting plummeting prices for their wines as well as rising fuel costs.
A regional official, Cyrille Schott, said that protesters broke windows at the courthouse in the city of Montpellier. In nearby Montagnac, protesters wielding baseball bats chased police officers from their vehicles and set the cars on fire, he added.
Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said the protesters had tried to burn a police car carrying six officers, the newspaper Le Figaro reported on its Web site.
"That is called attempted homicide," she said, adding that the authorities would investigate.
Schott also said that protesters damaged four bank buildings.
At three regional supermarkets they trashed the wine aisles, Schott said, adding that two police officers were slightly hurt in the protests Wednesday and early Thursday.
Philippe Vergnès, president of a wine growers' syndicate in the Aude region in south-central France, said that 98 percent of 15,000 vineyards there had been "crippled financially." He urged the government to come up with a plan to help the region.
Soaring oil prices have led to protests across Europe and Asia.MONTPELLIER, France: Winemakers in southern France have burned two police cars and... more
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A woman from Kentucky is facing charges for prostitution after she sold her sexual services to a man partly in return for a $100 fuel voucher, according to The Smoking Gun.
Apparently she was worth about 25 gallons of gas.
Bloody hell. A woman from Kentucky is facing charges for prostitution after she sold her sexual... more
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70,000 Spanish truckers strike, blockade border with France: “French and Spanish truckers blockaded roads on the border of south-western France on 9th June in protest at rising fuel prices. In the latest show of distress with fuel prices, Spanish truckers on Monday began a blockade of their country’s border with France, lining up their rigs and slowing them to a crawl to protest the cost of fuel. The strike blocked the highway in both directions in southwestern France. The protest turned ugly when would-be strike-breakers in Spain found their windshields and headlights smashed and their tires slashed. But the Spanish drivers were not the only ones feeling the pinch. French drivers slowed traffic near Bordeaux to demand lower fuel prices, offering a foretaste of a planned national strike by truckers next Monday. Portuguese drivers blocked roads, and in Belgium thousands of labor union members demonstrated in Liège to protest the rising cost of living as a result of fuel costs. Fuel prices have been far higher in Europe than in the United States for many years, largely as a result of fuel taxes imposed after the oil shock in the 1980s. Taxes account for at least half the price motorists pay, and sometimes more than 70 percent.” (LibCom, 06/09/08)70,000 Spanish truckers strike, blockade border with France: “French and Spanish... more
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The Italian government has a proposed a windfall tax on oil companies as a response to record fuel prices.
"With the proposed tax, already dubbed the 'Robin Hood Tax', the government pretends to restore household purchasing power by redistributing a levy on what it considers 'profit rich' energy companies that benefited from a high oil price environment over the past 12 months in favour of end consumers suffering from rising fuel prices."
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"Hemp is the term commonly employed for the industrial (non-drug) usage of the cannabis plant, otherwise known as marijuana. The stalk of the cannabis or marijuana plant has no THC content whatsoever, that is, it has no mind-altering properties.
The use of cannabis for hemp products goes back thousands of years. Today, hemp can be used in thousands of commercial products. The hemp tops and seeds can go to food, and the stalks can go for fuel, fiber and building materials, so it is like growing two crops in one field..." "Hemp is the term commonly employed for the industrial (non-drug) usage of the... more
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medical sources in Gaza Strip announced that the number of Palestinian patients who died as a result of the Israeli siege imposed on the strip bounced up to 126.
The sources said that Issac Deeb Oweida 32 years old who was suffering from Cancer died , Oweida was not allowed to leave Gaza to receive medical treatment abroad after Israel sealed Gaza crossings following Hamas military coup against legitimacy last June.
It is worth telling that death is threatening the lives of dozens of Palestinian patients who suffer from serious and chronic diseases due to lack of medical treatment , and medications in addition to preventing them from leaving Gaza to receive medical treatment abroad.
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Two Israeli were shot dead Wednesday afternoon when four Palestinian fighters infiltrated from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel.
Two other Israelis were wounded in the attack at the filling depot close to the Karni border terminal, near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. The Israeli emergency service Zaka said two Palestinian fighters had been killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli security forces.
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Muin Abdul Ghani sleeps in his car, parked among dozens of other vehicles at a gas station, unwilling to give up his place in line in his desperate scramble for gasoline.
It's one way Gaza's embattled 1.4 million residents are adjusting their lives around their newest crisis - a protest of gas station owners following months of restricted Israeli fuel supplies.
Gaza residents also wrestle with high black market prices and overstuffed
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axis. They have turned to bicycles, liquid gas for their cars and homemade fuel recipes to try to deal with the shortage. Muin Abdul Ghani sleeps in his car, parked among dozens of other vehicles at a gas... more
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