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Bush: Congress should allow more offshore drilling (AP)

President Bush arrives the White House from Camp David, Md.  Saturday, Sep. 6, 2008, in Washington.   (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - President Bush says if Congress doesn't permit offshore drilling to increase U.S. oil supplies and possibly ease gasoline prices, lawmakers should not expect voters to support them in November.





Alaskans to receive state payouts topping $3,200 (AP) AP - It's the season for Alaskans to be rewarded just for living here and this year's take is extra sweet: $3,269, a record share of the state's oil wealth combined with a special cash payout to help with stratospheric energy prices.


Solar energy can meet all the world's energy demands: expert (AFP)

A solar thermal electric power plant in Sanlucar La Mayor in February 2008. The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said.(AFP/File/Cristina Quicler)AFP - The world must speed up the deployment of solar power as it has the potential to meet all the world's energy needs, the chairman of an industry gathering which wrapped up Friday in Spain said.





Congress faces big push on offshore drilling (Reuters)

A general view shows the artificial Mittelplate drilling and production island for oil in the Wattenmeer tidelands off the coast of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein north-west of Cuxhaven July 12, 2007. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)Reuters - America's pain at the gasoline pump has been years in the making, but there will be a big push in Congress next week, when lawmakers return from summer break, to fix the problem by expanding offshore oil drilling.





McCain and Obama clash on economy (Reuters)

Barack Obama meets voters in Pennsylvania. Republican presidential hopeful John McCain attacked his Democratic rival as too weak to lead the nation as he tried to grab Obama's mantle of change.(AFP/Saul Loeb)Reuters - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail after their party conventions, clashed over the ailing U.S. economy on Friday as unemployment hit its highest monthly rate in nearly five years.





Alaska gas project hailed by Palin still embryonic (Reuters)

Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin speaks to reporters at the Republican Governor's Association gathering at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 4, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)Reuters - A long-delayed natural gas pipeline championed by Gov. Sarah Palin that would carry supplies from Alaska to Canada and then to the lower 48 states exists in concept only and is years away from fruition.





Deal ends feud over BP's Russia venture (AFP)

British-Russian oil giant TNK-BP offices in Moscow. British and Russian shareholders on Thursday announced an end to a months-long feud for control of joint oil venture TNK-BP, in a move hailed by the Kremlin as a positive signal to foreign investors.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)AFP - British and Russian shareholders on Thursday announced an end to a months-long feud for control of joint oil venture TNK-BP, in a move hailed by the Kremlin as a positive signal to foreign investors.





Palm oil firms' moratorium rejection threatens orangutans: activists (AFP)

An Orangutan stands by a river in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan in 2006. A decision by Indonesian palm oil companies to reject a moratorium on land clearing is threatening to wipe out more than 8,000 orangutans in the next three years, activists said Thursday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - A decision by Indonesian palm oil companies to reject a moratorium on land clearing is threatening to wipe out more than 8,000 orangutans in the next three years, activists said Thursday.





Helicopter strikes oil rig off Dubai coast; 7 dead (AP) AP - A helicopter carrying foreign contractors crashed into an oil platform off the coast of Dubai, killing all seven people on board and halting production in one of the emirate's four offshore oil fields, officials said Thursday.


World oil prices steady ahead of US energy report (AFP)

An oil refinery on Galveston Bay in Texas City. Oil prices rose slightly on Thursday as markets awaited the latest weekly snapshot of US energy inventories.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)AFP - World oil prices held steady in Asian trade Thursday ahead of a weekly US energy stockpiles report expected to give clues about the state of American demand for crude, dealers said.





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