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March 2, 2012

Latest Gas Price Spike Spawns Bad Ideas

Editorial, USA Today


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If political pandering and half-baked ideas could fill Americans' gas tanks, the latest price surge at the filling station would be no problem. As typically happens when gas spikes, politicians are providing an oversupply of blame-shifting and cluelessness. If there's a good energy strategy in all the criticism, it's well hidden.

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