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The High Price of Gasoline Is All About Power

The High Price of Gasoline Is All About Power

<!-- excerpt --><p>The consistently high gasoline prices in the California have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of fuel due to California refinery outages, crude oil production cuts by the OPEC cartel and California's special clean-burning fuel.</p>
Break Oil Companies’ Hold On Gas Prices

Break Oil Companies’ Hold On Gas Prices

<p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>The consistently high gasoline prices in the Bay Area have been blamed on price "spikes" caused by shortages of fuel due to California refinery outages, crude oil production cuts by the OPEC cartel and California's special clean-burning fuel standards.</p>
Oaks Organizer Skills

Oaks Organizer Skills

<!-- excerpt --><p>Oaks Project volunteer organizers are trained in these political and civic skills, which are essential to effective grassroots organizing.</p>
Lynch ready to energize PUC post

Lynch ready to energize PUC post

<h3>Longtime Davis ally expected to be named commission president</h3><p class="source">San Francisco Examiner</p> <p>Never one to straddle the fence, Loretta Lynch climbed over one last spring to get to an important meeting with Gov. Davis and a land developer</p>
The High Price of Advocacy

The High Price of Advocacy

<p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>My problem, I began, clearly and to the point, is David Horowitz. Not Horowitz in any personal way--I barely know him--but Horowitz being a paid spokesman for No on Prop. 9, the big-budget, big utilities-driven campaign to zap the underdog California ball</p>