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Top 10 Hot Jobs in Midland Texas - Home of George W. Bush

Midland is equidistant from El Paso and Fort Worth, hence the name that indicates the mid-way point ('land in the middle'). Combined with Oddessa about 19 miles away, the two cities make up the Odessa-Midland...

8 comments    jackalope jackalopes
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Proposal To Reduce Reliance Upon Foreign Oil And Force A Reduction In Gas Prices By Forming A Public Oil Company

Details of a plan to create and utilize a public oil company as part of a broader energy policy for the United States, in order to achieve greater energy independence as well as dramatically lower fuel costs.

4 comments    politics energy government
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YES WE CAN! Drill Our Way Out of This Oil Crisis!

May 13, 2008, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) announced, "We can't drill our way out of this." This was his response to pressure on legislators to increase oil drilling and exploration to help elevate high gas...

18 comments    business politics automotive
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Oil Drilling and the Red Herring

Democracy Waning, oil drilling and the fictious fish. Wikopedia describes a "red herring" as "a technique used in literature to mislead the audience." It also describes it as "a logical fallacy in which one...

0 comments    politics oil drilling
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Politics and Falling Oil Prices

Senator John McCain becomes convinced that we should expand oil drilling off our coasts and in the lower forty-eight states. President Bush overturns an executive order banning more offshore drilling. Senator...

4 comments    finance money politics
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The John McCain Train Leaves the Station, Next Stop the Republican Convention

Michelle Obama to her husband about his choice for running mate "What do you need a woman VP for, you have me, pick a man." How much does anybody want to bet that Barack was thinking to himself that without a...

2 comments    love politics barack obama
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Oil And You - Part 3

The Democratic Congress wrings its hands and says there is just nothing to do. They cry about how OPEC won't listen to them in their demands to have the oil cartel pump more oil. There is nothing to do about...

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