The Teamsters are not considered the most progressive, Democratic-leaning of unions. They were among the biggest supporters of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
But they see the handwriting on the wall.
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said today that working Americans hard hit by rising gas prices and a collapsing economy demand [...]

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This is not a temporary shift.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Car maker Ford Motor Co. is drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small, fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
The paper said Ford has looked at bringing over European models, including the mid-size [...]

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What will $6/gallon do?
U.S. fuel consumption fell 3 percent in the first half of 2008, the biggest decline for the period in 17 years, as high prices and a slowing economy curbed demand, an oil industry report today showed.
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Fuel demand fell as prices for crude oil, gasoline and heating oil futures reached records. The higher [...]

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Yuck.
A HEREDITARY Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual. He touches the sacred water. He dips himself in it. He cups it in his hands and drinks it.
Mr Mishra, 70, cannot make it [...]

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About 19:30 into this speech:

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Of course, we could and should speed up this transition by insisting that the price of carbon-based energy include the costs of the environmental damage it causes. I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes with the difference made up in CO2 taxes. We should tax what we burn, [...]

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