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Rising Gas Prices Hit Veterans Especially Hard
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2007 Comment (1)Remember 1978?
Pete Rose smashed his 3,000th hit. The head-pounding Saturday Night Fever soundtrack dominated the charts. Back-to-back films that would sweep the Academy Awards, The Deer Hunter and Coming Home, explored soldiers' tormented return from an unpopular war. And gasoline cost 67 cents a gallon.
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Someone's Apologizing for Sorry Fuel Economy but Not Automakers
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2007 Comment (4)If you wonder why it's so hard to get beyond oil, consider the Bush administration official who was forced to apologize for urging his agency's employees to consider buying fuel-efficient cars.
Yes, to make this rather obvious suggestion to help reduce oil dependence is to generate a political firestorm. That's because—you guessed it!—not one of the cars on the gas-saving list was made in the U.S.A.
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