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Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on May 9, 2011 an article in Politico
"A gallon (of gasoline) delivered to the front lines for our troops in Afghanistan cost more than $400."
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By Sabrina Eaton • May 23, 2011
Kathie Tovo
Kathie Tovo
stated on May 1, 2011 “Voters Guide,” League of Women Voters of the Austin Area.
"Austin Energy is considering its first rate increase since 1994."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 10, 2011
Gerry Connolly
Gerry Connolly
stated on May 3, 2011 a House floor speech
"America owns 3 percent of the world’s oil but consumes 25 percent of its global reserves."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 14, 2011 an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News
"Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world (behind) Saudi Arabia."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2011
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on February 10, 2011 a news release.
"Over the past decade, the big five oil companies --- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- made a total profit of nearly $1 trillion."
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By Sean Gorman • April 11, 2011
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on March 13, 2011 an interview on Fox News Sunday
"Twenty percent of our electricity currently comes from nuclear power plants. I think there are 104 in the United States, two of them around the coast in California."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on March 4, 2011 a letter to President Barack Obama
Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would immediately lower gasoline prices
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By Charles Pope • March 12, 2011
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 6, 2010 a campaign speech
"Ohio’s electricity rates are 10 percent below the national average."
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By Reginald Fields • July 27, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on June 20, 2010 comments on 'Meet The Press'
Canada "does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States."
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By Alex Holt • June 28, 2010
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on June 20, 2010 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"We only have 2 percent of the oil reserves in the world, and we consume 25 percent of the world's oil on a daily basis."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2010
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit
stated on June 18, 2010 a brochure
The addition of a 1 percent sales tax would cost a typical household in Hillsborough County approximately $12 a month.
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By Janet Zink • June 18, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 15, 2010 a speech from the Oval Office
"Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
Bart Stupak
Bart Stupak
stated on June 15, 2010 a Congressional hearing
"While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2010
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on June 6, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week''
"We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 27, 2010 a press conference at the White House
"The Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. The result is, they are continually waived."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2010
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on May 30, 2010 an interview on ABC news "This Week''
The federal government only ordered BP to pay "to do one of those six segments" of sand barriers for Louisiana.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 1, 2010
Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Meek
stated on May 25, 2010 his campaign website, asking supporters to sign a petition to oppose offshore oil drilling
"Kendrick Meek is the only candidate who has consistently been against expanded drilling."
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By Lesley Clark • May 26, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on May 4, 2010 an interview on CNN
"In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half."
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By Catharine Richert • May 13, 2010
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on April 27, 2010 a newspaper column
"We’re making more than ever off oil and gas right now, but it’s no secret that oil production in Texas peaked in the 1970s."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2010
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