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A new day for U.S. manufacturing
Remember the 1980s? It was to be the decade of Japanese dominance. A post-Jimmy Carter America would be unable to compete with the efficient Japanese jobs machine. Aging technology, lazy management and high-cost labor would ensure America's rapid demise...
Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Methanex Corporation, China, Dow Chemical Co.
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BGE says energy prices on the rise for electricity customers
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said Thursday that energy prices will rise $6 a month for the typical residential electricity customer who doesn't use an outside power supplier, the first jump in energy prices in four years. That rise in costs, running...
Tags: Prices, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, Market and Exchange
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Five added to heat death toll
Health officials said Tuesday they have linked two more deaths to the heat wave and derecho storm that struck Maryland earlier this month, and heat contributed to three other deaths since that crisis ended.
A Baltimore man and Worcester County man...Tags: Baltimore Weather, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Prince George's County
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As gasoline prices rise, Obama takes aim at alternative-energy critics
With rising oil prices creating a drag on the economy and his re-election effort, President Barack Obama mocked Republican critics of his alternative-energy policy Thursday, comparing them to the "cynics and naysayers" who didn't believe the Earth was...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Douglas F. Gansler, Wildlife, Biofuels, Republican Party
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Obama's choice: Higher gas prices, weaker economy
Campaigning for office, President Barack Obama promised to do something about high gas prices, but now he is denying he can do much about what Americans pay to drive. He is too modest. In September 2008, Steven Chu said to The Wall Street Journal:...
Tags: Solyndra LLC, Gasoline Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, Steven Chu
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Is reelection driving Obama's Israel policy?
For many years, Iran has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map," even as it gets closer and closer to developing nuclear weapons that could enable it to follow through on its threat. However, the question now is whether this is the optimum time for...Tags: Israel, Johns Hopkins University, Petroleum Industry, European Union, Social Sciences
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More domestic production won't lower gas prices
The argument for increasing oil production in the U.S. to decrease gas prices at the pump has sparked passionate debate, but it undervalues the influence of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). In recent years, OPEC has shown an...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, International Organizations, Petroleum Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Our lack of choice at the pump props up the Saudis
At a time when Americans are engaged in a heated debate about cutting domestic social services and entitlement programs, we are forced to fund more and more social programs — for other nations. How so? In February, after seeing fellow Sunni...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Saudi Arabia, Hosni Mubarak, Homes, Kuwait
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Bad policy, not profiteering, is the reason for $4 a gallon gas
When gas prices spike in the wake of Middle East turmoil or hurricanes, conspiracy theories abound about profiteering speculators. The truth is Americans are suffering from bad energy polices — politicians eager to sell pet projects and hoist...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Labor Markets, Prices, Energy Saving, Petroleum Industry
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Green energy vs. oil
Re your article "Demand, not speculation, cited for rising oil prices" (May 8), while demand is a factor in rising oil prices, multiple factors must be included to get the entire picture of why prices are rising. International Energy Agency chief...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Energy Saving, Petroleum Industry, Energy, International Energy
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Prospects dim for both nuclear energy and Constellation
When Constellation Energy Group and EDF Group teamed up three years ago, the economy was riding high, and so were they.
Rising energy prices and a growing economy prompted them to propose the once unthinkable: developing, building and operating the first...Tags: Corporate Officers, Defense Equipment, Maryland, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Warren Buffett
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Constellation's partnership with French company tested
Crisis can trash or temper a marriage. We'll soon know which way it goes for Baltimore's Constellation Energy Group and France's EDF Group. Their partnership in owning and developing nuclear electricity plants is being tested by the terrible economy,...Tags: Maryland, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Electricity Production and Distribution, Energy, France
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