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Time to Challenge Obama on Gas Prices

Here we go again. A sudden surge in the price of gasoline and heating oil is followed by reported expressions of frustrated despair by hard-pressed consumers in the midst of silence from the oil companies and abdication of responsibility by the elected and appointed officials of federal and state governments.

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Big Oil Raked in Billions as Consumers Paid Record Gas Prices

While you were paying record prices at the pump in 2012, the cash was flowing to oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron, according to recently released earning reports.

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Mission Accomplished for Big Oil?

Big Oil has replaced U.S. troops in Iraq, and the country’s oil output, crippled for decades, is growing again, with Iraq recently reclaiming the number two position in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Now there’s talk of a new world petroleum glut. So is this finally mission accomplished?

This piece originally appeared at TomDispatch.

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Muppets 1, Fox News 0

Bet you never thought you’d watch a press conference involving Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy holding forth about Fox News, but here’s your chance to see just that. And when it comes to defending their latest movie and their honor from politicized attacks by certain Murdochian operatives, these felty friends don’t play.

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The New Sputnik

In 1957, a United States shocked by the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite bounced into action to compete on the world stage. More than 50 years later, in May of 2011, the U.S. is facing a new challenge.

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