Market Not Ready for Consumers to Be Weaned Off Oil

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It's just our luck to have an oil spill at one of the few moments in history where such a thing could be considered laughably insignificant.

With new estimates of 2.5 million gallons of oil a day leaking into the Gulf and fouling sensitive shorelines, the 33,000 gallons that leaked into Red Butte Creek last weekend, after a Chevron pipeline out of Colorado ruptured, hardly made a ripple on the national news scene.

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Market Not Ready for Consumers to Be Weaned Off Oil

I found only scant mention of it outside the state. A San Francisco Chronicle story noted, "The spill comes at an inopportune time for the oil industry." And there was a mention in col...

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