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India gold culture defies curbs

...one fifth of world sales. The cost of 2.5 trillion rupees ($45 billion) was second only to India's bill for imported oil. The unquenchable appetite for gold coins, bars and jewelry has swelled India's trade deficit and weakened its currency...

http://juneauempire.com/kay-johnson/2013-02-20/india-gold-culture-defies-curbs
Big Oil has little to do with prices

...is the latest reminder of the cost to America of not having a comprehensive energy policy. By relying so heavily on imported oil, we are held hostage to events halfway around the world. Part of what lies behind soaring prices is turmoil in North...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-06-09/big-oil-has-little-do-prices
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Obama strikes a gusher of truth

...Congress like it, even some presidents liked it. While Obama has tried to help shift to green energy and rely less on imported oil, he followed an oil ticket to the White House. In 2000 and 2004, the Republicans won with oilmen George W. Bush...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-06-09/obama-strikes-gusher-truth
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Pro: Strategy is sabotaging an economic recovery

...work in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and elsewhere.Considering that Americans spend more than $500 million a day for imported oil, it would be absurd if we didn't make better use of our domestic energy resources. In his "Jobs for America" speech...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-01-13/pro-strategy-sabotaging-economic-reco
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Should energy secretary resign over $537 million mistake? Con: We should thank Chu - not castigate him

...create jobs now and in the future, while also improving the environment and public health and reducing reliance on imported oil.The United States depends heavily on fossil fuels to provide the energy we need to power our homes, run our businesses...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-11-11
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Delay throws blue-collar workers under the Keystone bus

...protecting the environment. Regardless of whether the pipeline is built, U.S. refineries will continue to need imported oil. Without the pipeline, the oil will arrive by tanker on the high seas. Oil tankers discharge more than 10 million...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-11-25-0
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Con: Higher oil prices prod consumers toward green energies of the future

...is expected to get the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon.By sipping gasoline more efficiently, U.S. demand for imported oil should drop, but even so this will not likely have much impact on gasoline prices. Rising global demand for gasoline...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-02-03/con-higher-oil-proces-prod-consumers-
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The national security case for opening ANWR

...Americans supporting the opening of ANWR. Yet, at a time when our national energy security is at risk, the cost of imported oil is around $100 a barrel, and TAPS is running at only one-third capacity, the national environmental groups have...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-07-02/national-security-case-opening-anwr
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Pro/Con: Should a pipeline be built to bring Canadian tar sand oil to the U.S.?

...rulers belong to a restricted club of oil producers known as the OPEC cartel.Canada is America's No. 1 source of imported oil, supplying 2.5 million barrels daily by pipeline, an extraordinary amount of crude oil that's carried to refineries...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-09-16/procon-should-pipeline-be-built-bring
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Opposing ANWR supports outsourcing

...over the next 10 years. In addition to the extra investment in the military to secure oil sources and trade routes for imported oil. Among all of your staff, you should be able to put together backup papers to support your mantra, in other words...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060706/let_20060607008.shtml
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