WASHINGTON, DC - Tuesday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a member of the Senate Commerce and Energy Committees, led 15 other senators in calling on President Bush to support anti gas price-gouging legislation currently pending before Congress. CantwellÂ’s Energy Emergency Consumer Protection Act would ban profiteering at the gas pump, empower regulators to go after companies suspected of price-gouging, and increase market transparency... (more)Good for our Senator Maria Cantwell. With BushCo's insane foreign policies driving the price of crude oil to unheard of highs, some sort of control on energy profiteering is necessary or we'll be dumped into a global economic depression as bad as the 1930's
Oil Prices Settle Above $71 a BarrelWASHINGTON (AP) -- Oil prices settled at a new high above $71 a barrel Tuesday as supply threats around the world overshadowed a new report from OPEC forecasting weakening global demand... (more)
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