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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The Tennessean presents their view

They call for a comprehensive approach and for Congress to avoid a hasty vote on drilling
Posted by m kennedy at 5:43 AM

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    • ▼  September (109)
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      • Investor's Buseness Daily hammers Gore
      • What the people think
      • Not giving the other side an issue to hammer you with
      • Growing oilseed for fuel in West Tennessee
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      • Harsh rhetoric against coal
      • U.S. House Dems will let drilling ban lapse
      • Depends on who asks
      • Water in Transuranic Waste complicates shipping
      • Oil prices fall after dramatic increase
      • How'd we get where we got this past weekend?
      • WSJ covers gas shortage in Southeast
      • U.S. Congressman Zach Wamp in the Huntsville Times
      • TDOT and Gov. Bredesen with some green announcements
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      • Wood replaces LP gas for some in East Tennessee
      • Clean energy summit in Knoxville next month
      • Coal demand makes electricity more expensive
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      • Anyone seen Mad Max around?
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      • Some data on electricity production through August
      • Anything the French can do...
      • Know nuclear
      • Help when it comes to keeping warm
      • This journalist gets it right
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      • U.S. House passes energy bill
      • Are we happy now that oil prices are falling?
      • Less school saves gas
      • That's not what we had in mind
      • Grass not corn!
      • Against coal-fired plants
      • From Alabama's Joint Legislative Committee on Energy
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      • The energy debate in Washington
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m kennedy
is an economist at Middle Tennessee State University interested in Public Choice, the study of voting and policy formation.
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