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Gas gauges and price gouging.(Correction, Please!)
ITEM: As gasoline prices rose, Democrats in Congress took aim at the oil companies, reported the Washington Post for May 11. "Standing in front of an Exxon station near the Capitol on Wednesday with the posted $3.05-a-gallon price for unleaded regular in the background, half a dozen senators railed against the oil industry. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Congress would look into breaking up the giant companies. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) promoted her anti-price-gouging bill, which the Senate Commerce Committee adopted on Tuesday. And Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) backed a windfall profits tax, pointing to $440 billion in profits over the past six years for the ...
- United States--retail gasoline prices are projected to average $2.62/gallon...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly April 17, 2006 700+ words
UNITED STATES--Retail gasoline prices are projected to average $2.62/gallon this summer, 25cents higher than a year ago, with periods of heavy volatility likely...
- United States--retail gasoline prices are approaching the peaks reached last...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly July 17, 2006 700+ words
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- Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserves: Gasoline prices...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire February 3, 2009 700+ words
...Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserves: Gasoline prices reached $4 a...Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum...Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum...fuel bills. Gasoline prices reached $4 a...
- United States--Have US retail gasoline prices peaked for the...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly May 16, 2005 700+ words
UNITED STATES -- Have US retail gasoline prices peaked for the year? The Energy Information Administration...levels for this year and 2006--but it expects retail gasoline prices to average $2.17/gallon from April to September...
- Research and Markets: Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 3, 2009 700+ words
...report "Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum...offering. Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum...higher fuel bills. Gasoline prices reached $4 a gallon...3 Release of the United States Strategic Petroleum...
- United States--concern about record-high gasoline prices hit fever pitch in...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly March 29, 2004 700+ words
UNITED STATES--Concern about record-high gasoline prices hit fever pitch in Washington where the issue has moved to center stage in this year's presidential campaign. But Energy Secretary...
- United States--a war in Iraq and high gasoline prices did not prevent the US...
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly March 24, 2003 700+ words
UNITED STATES -- A war in Iraq and high gasoline prices did not prevent the US Senate last week from rejecting a move by key Republicans to use a budget measure as a means to permit oil...
- Pump Prices at Fifth Highest.(gasoline prices, United States)(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily March 5, 2003 700+ words
US consumers were again pinched at the pump as gasoline prices jumped an average 2.8cents per gallon over the last week to the fifth-highest level on record, and truckers paid record prices...
