crude oil
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Bennet proposes deal to store private crude oil in nation’s reserve
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Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has an oil deal involving Texas and Louisiana. The Democrat from Denver introduced legislation Wednesday to lease available space for crude oil in the nation’s four Strategic Petroleum Reserve sites on the Gulf Coast, which would help pay for program’s maintenance and long-term operation. Bennet is co-sponsoring the bill with…
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May: Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election
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The Islamic Republic isn’t a democracy, but a theocratic dictatorship News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent president. An apparently mild-mannered cleric with a beatific smile, he has presided over…
