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With estimates that gas might hit $5 a gallon this summer - Americans are screwed at the pump
But here’s the truth: high gases prices have nothing to do with lack of available gas in America. That’s because for the first time in 62 years – the United States became a net exporter of oil products. In 2011, our nation sent 439,000 more barrels of oil overseas than we imported. That means we’re awash in oil and gasoline, it’s just in the hands of oil barons who are making more money shipping it overseas than selling it to U.S. customers.
So, drilling in Alaska or in the Gulf won’t cut gas prices. Our status as a net exporter of oil also means we’re now the world’s dirt pit – where the dirty work like refining and processing crude is done, because oil barons don’t have to worry about the costs of pollution. We the taxpayers and consumers pay for all the externalities of oil production – from more asthma and cancers to the environmental damage. In the hands of banksters and oil barons, the United States of America is Un-developing and unraveling.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... North Korea: Food for nukes (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: North Korea: Food for nukes
The Jeb Scenario: Can You Say “Prez Bush” again?- Russ Baker, author-Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty 
Screwed: DHS spies & lies / Google privacy dies- Ginger McCall, EPIC Open Government Counsel and IPIOP Program Director - David Jacobs, Electronic Privacy Information Center (E.P.I.C.)
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Fukushima: chronic & lasting cesium?- Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
Daily Take: The real story behind rising gas prices
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EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT...
"Heist-The Movie"...MARCH 2 - 8, 2012
ONE WEEK ONLY! at NY’s Quad Cinema 34 West 13th Street, NYC, Featuring Bernie Sanders, Robert Kuttner, David Cay Johnston, Nomi Prins, Van Jones & more! See here for longer list |
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation." -- Mercy Otis Warren.
Hour One: all the news of the day you need to know
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please." Quote: " No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne.
Hour Two: Imagine life with no water...in America!
Geeky Science rocks!
Hour Three: Why did Troy, MI say no to Uncle Sam?- Mike Brownfield, The Heritage Foundation
Troy turns down stimulus dollars- Tony Trupiano, The Heritage Foundation
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Coming up Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Plus, It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...you choose the topics and we'll talk...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Thom's Poll
Has the US become the worlds oil refinery?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Occupy...the rise of the "99% Spring"
Lone Liberal Rumble - Will Republicans go after converts or heretics?
Who are the Sovereign Citizens?
Crazy Alert! Politics is now a real cat fight..
Are we about to execute another innocent man?
The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Dolichoprosopicously Ugly
Imagine life with no water...in America!
Full Show 2/29/12: (The 99%) Spring is approaching
Thom talks about the expected resurgence of the occupy movement this spring. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel talks about last night's primary elections, Olympia Snowe not seeking reelection and whether Wall Street is filled with psychopaths. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom talks about our country's deteriorating infrastructure.
Thom Hartmann on the News - March 1, 2012
Troy turns down stimulus dollars
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