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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is seeking comment on its preliminary decision to issue an air pollution permit for a planned coal-to-gasoline plant in the southern coalfields.
ExxonMobil Corp. said Friday that it has appealed a $150 million judgment awarded to dozens of families whose wells were contaminated during a 2006 gasoline spill.
Gasoline prices are expected to be relatively low this summer, so motorists might want to take to the road despite the dismal economy if the federal government projections hold.
Police said a Pennsylvania man bound his neighbor with duct tape, doused him with gasoline and threatened to set him on fire unless the neighbor confessed to burglarizing his house. John Black, of New Sewickley Township, was charged with burglary, aggravated assault, unlawful restraint and related crimes.
As anxiety on Wall Street led banks and other investors to hoard cash last week, a different kind of market fear gripped cities across the Southeast.
The 276-146 roll call Tuesday by which the House failed to advance the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act, which was designed to punish price gouging at the gas pump.
House Democrats failed Tuesday to resurrect a bill to punish price gouging at the gas pump, while maneuvering to block Republican attempts to expand offshore drilling, an idea gaining in popularity amid $4-a-gallon gas prices.
An Ohio couple has been repaid for a liquid asset they shared 34 years ago. Violet and Harold Goff of Southington say a man showed up at their home recently and explained that he'd appeared at their door in 1974 when he was 17 and had run out of gas.
Time was when hybrid gas-electric vehicles appealed only to the greenest car consumers more concerned about saving the environment than saving on gasoline bills. Gas prices hitting $4 a gallon have changed all that.
The nation's anger over $4 gasoline is producing political theatrics at the White House, in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail. Republicans are demanding new drilling off the nation's beaches. Democrats want to tax away oil companies' profits.
Gasoline prices should peak at $4.15 a gallon this summer, the government says — finally an encouraging word for motorists who might be thinking the cost of a fill-up will just keep climbing.
Authorities say a couple trying to beat the high cost of gasoline accidentally caused a fire that burned their apartment complex.
With gasoline prices zooming toward $4 a gallon — and beyond — readers are looking for relief and explanations. If fuel is in such short supply, why are refiners shipping some of it out of the country?
Bobby Lee Julien, who’s driven a fuel tanker for 27 years, was near the end of his route. It was 3 a.m. when he pulled up at a stop sign off State Highway 225 in Houston.
As dire forecasts about runaway oil prices become reality, it’s impossible to know how much higher they’ll go. But the impact of the price surge already is being widely felt. And if prices go much higher, the damage to the U.S. economy will be deeper and wider than the fallout from the run-up so far.
The summer driving season isn't even here yet, and the issue of rising gas prices is heating up on the campaign trail.
The recent trajectory of oil prices — a fairly steady increase followed by a much more vertical rise — has a familiar look to it. Remember those charts of tech stocks and housing prices? It's hard not to wonder: Are oil prices forming the next big “bubble?"
With two of the three presidential candidates proposing a gasoline tax “holiday,” some readers are wondering: Why can’t the government do more to cut gas prices?
A German man in the northeastern town of Gross Godems was being treated for serious burns Monday after accidentally setting his apartment ablaze when he mixed up a bottle of gasoline with alcohol, police said.
Last week's reports on a strong uptick in prices has readers wondering how worried they should be about inflation. And why do policy makers at the Federal Reserve insist on looking at so-called "core" inflation — which eliminates the cost of rapidly rising food and energy prices?
A 70-year-old man has been charged with grand theft after police watched him siphon off more than 900 gallons of gasoline from underground storage tanks at two gas stations, the Polk County authorities said Wednesday.
The Plymouth Belvedere buried in a time capsule was rusty and undriveable but gasoline cached with the car could have scientific value.
Elementary school principal Randy Busscher of Holland, Mich. is braced for gasoline prices of $3 a gallon or more by summer break. Analysts say Busscher and other U.S. motorists may be more worried than necessary, however. Absent a major Gulf Coast hurricane, unexpected international strife or a wave of refinery woes, average U.S. gasoline prices are not expected to rise to the $3-a-gallon psychological threshold this summer — a good sign as well for the broader economy, which is under pressure from a weakening housing market.
Two car crashes occurred and four people were arrested in excitement over a gasoline giveaway Wednesday to reward the city for its safe-driving record.
Oil prices top $80 amid worries on dollar, stormOil prices shot up $2 a barrel Monday as a weakened U.S. dollar created more turbulence in energy markets than a storm heading into the Gulf of Mexico. The price of regular unleaded gasoline in Tulsa, meanwhile, slipped to $2.31 a gallon at many convenience stores.
Husband tries to set wife on fireAuthorities say an Orlando man poured gasoline on his wife and tried to set her on fire.
How to Keep Iran in Check Without WarGary Sick served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis and is the author of two books on U.S.-Iranian relations.
Venezuela to Help Iran Overcome US Gasoline Sanctions. 8 Dhul Qa'idah 1430 / Monday 26 Oct 2009 / 04 Aban 1388Noting that Caracas is interested in helping Iran overcome the US sanctions, he reiterated that Venezuela views cooperation with Iran as among its top priorities.
I just had to get this off my chest, so please bear with me.
With all of the recent debates over Global warming or more aptly called climate change and the political debates on cap and trade taxation, it seems appropriate to do a few articles on where our energy really comes from and how it is utilized.
Black Market Shows Iran Can Adapt to SanctionsWASHINGTON — President Obama has vowed to keep the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program after last week's meeting in Geneva, and his advisers said the United States was intensively recruiting other nations to join in a harsher economic embargo against Tehran should diplo …
E-mail claims Democratic Congress to blame for no COLA increase in Social Security (Truth-O-Meter: Pants on fire!)So every year you've gotten a little bump in your Social Security check due to inflation. Maybe you've come to consider it an annual raise from Uncle Sam. Well, this January, you might not get one.
Boy Badly Burned By Homemade Magic WandAuthorities say a 10-year-old Pasco County boy was seriously burned when he and two friends tried to make a magic wand out of a stick, gasoline and bug spray.
Music: Galveston - Glen Campbell Gasoline was about 25 cents a gallon around 1967, and diesel fuel was about 13 cents a gallon. We lived on the north side of Houston, and we went to Galveston on quite a few week ends. I had a 1950 Ford pickup, and we used it to go to Galveston.
Venezuela plans gasoline exports to IranTEHRAN (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Sunday it had agreed to export 20,000 barrels per day of gasoline to Iran, which imports a large part of its needs, Iranian state media reported.
You may have read about the cap and trade legislation which the US House of Representatives passed in June of this year. The US Senate is due to begin work on their version of this legislation in September.
Teen burned after letting friend pour gas on leg Volusia County authorities say a Deltona teenager suffered second- and third-degree burns when he set himself on fire. Deputies said 13-year-old Russell Gortzig was taken to an Orlando hospital after Sunday night's incident.
Health Concerns Arise After Factory Fire -A four-alarm fire at an old Torrington mill was extinguished Monday evening, but with the smoldering ashes, the fire left behind health concerns for neighbors.
I hauled steel predominately. I hauled steel on a forty foot flatbed, in box trailers, I hauled two forty five foot trailers as one unit, and I hauled two twenty seven foot trailers with 34 wheels on the whole unit. They are called doubles. I pulled a tanker too.
Tesla Motors, Being Green Does Not Have To Be Boring
Gas prices drop to lowest level in eight weeksThe average price drivers paid for gasoline fell to $2.46 a gallon, the lowest level in eight weeks, the Energy Department said Monday.
Record-high gasoline hit one year agoExactly a year ago in Tulsa, gasoline hit a record high of $3.93 a gallon as a speculative frenzy gripped the oil market. Tulsa's high came a day after the national average peaked at $4.11. A day before that, crude oil reached a high of $145.29.
State reaches record gasoline price gouging settlementWhen Hurricane Ike headed to Texas last fall, gasoline prices in Florida headed through the roof. Now the state has determined the supplier that jacked prices more than $1.50 a gallon in September was price gouging.
US Auto Myth: Blaming the SUVs for gas gluttonyThe second myth I've considered is this: That the shift towards big SUVs is to blame for our dependence on foreign oil, high gas prices, etc. Fact: The shift towards larger vehicles in general hasn't exactly helped, but it hasn't hurt, per se, either.
Take Action | American SolutionsGasoline prices continue to rise again here is how to help stop the madness
Gasoline has increased 20% at the pump in the last 30 days. Can you afford a cost of living increase? Probably not.
Pilot Lesson 1: You might check your fuel gauge.A retired Air Force colonel with decades of experience as a flight instructor gave one of his students a hands-on lesson in a key principle of flying: Don't run out of gas.
China Is Said to Plan Stricter Gas Mileage Standards than those outlined by the Obama AdminstrationHONG KONG — Worried about heavy reliance on imported oil, Chinese officials have drafted automotive fuel economy standards that are even more stringent than those outlined by President Obama last week, Chinese experts with a detailed knowledge of the plans said on Wednesday.
"Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers."~George Carlin
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