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Feds: No new drilling permits, but we'll tap into Strategic Petroleum Reserve!

Oil prices have been on the rise recently, with supply worries from the unrest in the Middle East pushing prices past $106 a barrel this morning, the highest in two years. Americans are feeling the sting of an average $3.50 a gallon price at the pump, with prices as high as $5 a gallon in some areas such as L.A. Read More

Gulf congressman applauds lifting of deepwater drilling ban

Last week, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Tex., and two dozen members of Congress from the Gulf states pleaded with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to lift the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. Today a federal judge did it for him. Read More
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