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Throughout our oceans, pollution from petroleum-based plastic has become a major scourge; too much of what we throw away doesn't really disappear or end up safely recycled, but shows up at our doorstep in different form.
Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011
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Throughout our oceans, pollution from petroleum-based plastic has become a major scourge; too much of what we throw away doesn't really disappear or end up safely recycled, but shows up at our doorstep in different form.
Diane Dulken: It's Beach Season: Meet the Giant Plastic Bottle Garbage Jellyfish Diane Dulken 2011
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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There need to be government programs that restrict the usage of petroleum-based gasoline (not biofuels or electric, and so on) to current levels or less through voucher programs (please see "The Energy Solution That Dare Not Speak Its Name," 07.17.07) or whatever program is workable rather than the transfer of our national wealth to the oil nabobs.
Raymond J. Learsy: Washington Gets Tough on China, but Plays Patsy With OPEC Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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