Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.
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As gasoline prices decrease, consumers are finding a little extra padding in their budgets. Nearly every retail category has seen strong sales growth in the past few months, indicating that retailers will see positive gains as consumers continue to spend this holiday season.
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We're seeing the unwinding of the heating oil, gasoline spread. Traders were buying heating oil and selling gasoline, and producers saw this and kicked up distillate production.
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Gasoline, home heating prices, they are very volatile. Some months they're up, some months they're down. They depend on the vagaries of the weather ? It's warm, it's cold. The big decline I think will result in a big increase next month.
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Just as every media outlet is talking about $4-a-gallon gasoline and the politicians are talking investigations and taxes, the futures market is signaling that the worst may be over.
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If you were in the street on fire, I'd put you out with gasoline
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Just because we have chisseled abs and perfect cheek bones, doesn't mean that we too can't die in a freak gasoline fight incident.
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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes
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'I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.'
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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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