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April 12, 2012

Is Big Oil Rigging Gasoline Prices?

Daniel Weiss & Jackie Weidman, Center for American Progress


Fortune

Cable news may be distracted by the latest presidential candidate gaffe or celebrity gossip, but gasoline prices are at the top of many Americans’ minds. To better understand their concerns, the Center for American Progress Action Fund commissioned a poll by Hart Research Associates in March 2012. . .

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