- kwame holman: in response, president bush in wisconsin claimed democrats favored increasing the federal gasoline tax (Public Broadcasting Service).
- john kerry: number one, we should be putting pressure on opec to raise the supply and not allow those countries to undermine the economies of the world (Public Broadcasting Service).
- maybe i'll even pen a tart note to president bush, telling him that, by the way, just because nearly everyone's attention has been turned to more pressing international concerns, that hasn't made it ok for his minions to rush to lease some of the most beautiful and unspoiled public lands in the rocky mountains and desert southwest to oil, gas and coal companies (Chicago Tribune).
- presidential candidate george w. bush, pontiac, mi, october 13, 2000: no matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels (World Watch Institute).
- an ideological chasm separates the environmental policies of the two candidates, with president george w. bush favoring more use of domestic coal and oil to cut dependence on middle east oil, while kerry seeks a shift to clean energy like solar or wind power by 2020
(Environmental News Network).
- today as john kerry unveiled his plan to help stabilize the price of gasoline i could not contain my joy
(League of Conservation Voters).
- in a ground-breaking analysis of a massive government database, the star-telegram reported that the environmental protection agency had sharply cut back all types of clean-air enforcement actions against petroleum refineries since george w. bush took office (Knight-Ridder Inc.).
- 6 billion camisea natural gas project stands to enrich some of bush's closest corporate campaign contributors including two texas energy companies with close ties to the white house, hunt oil and kellogg brown & root (kbr), a subsidiary of vice-president dick cheney's old firm, haliburton (Earth Island Institute).
- we had already filled in the six-meter-long letters ''h-u'' and were outlining the ''m'' in the words that, when spelled out completely, would signal to george bush's death-dealing missiles that the refinery was a united nations-certified civilian site providing fuel and home heating oil to the residents of baghdad and beyond (Earth Island Institute).
- while dick cheney was ceo of halliburton, the company provided a variety of services to the iranian state oil company
(Working for Change).
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SummaryThis project of the ECOresearch Network automatically provides a weekly snapshot of international Web coverage. The results reflect online attention and attitude towards the US presidential candidates. Keywords grouped by political party and geographic region summarize the key issues associated with each candidate.
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