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Thom's blog
Up to $14 of every tank of gas you fill up is the result of oil speculation
Americans are getting screwed at the gas pump. But it has nothing to do with supply and demand or instability in the Middle East. Instead – it has to do with corruption. As investigative reporter Lee Fang at the Republic Report uncovered – a slew of lobbyists are working on behalf of Wall Street to shoot down regulations intended to curb oil speculation.
Bart Chilton, a commissioner with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, said that as much as $14 in every tank of gas you fill up in your truck is a result of excessive oil speculation. That comes out to a $750 a year tax on all drivers courtesy of Wall Street banksters.
Unfortunately for Americans who can’t afford these inflated gas prices – the top Republican financial watchdog in Congress – Representative Spencer Bachus –believes that his job is not to regulate the banks, but instead “regulators are there to serve the banks.”
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Auto Industry...Romney against it before he was for it (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Auto Industry...Romney against it before he was for it - David Selig, Conservative Commentator.
Student Loans and their corporate overlords- Sam Watson, Cool Springs Financial Group, LLC.
Screwed: Immigration is taking babies away from mothers- Seth Freed Wessler, Applied Research Center / Colorlines.com 
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Why America is obese...- Frank Melli, Producer of the weekly FSTV program "Meet the Farmer"
How corruption takes $14 from each tank of gas...- Lee Fang, RepublicReport.org
Daily Take: Fox News supports the Christian Taliban
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm
Hour One: Fox News Supports the Christian Taliban
Save jobs, save the USPS- Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT, at large).
Hour Two: Why America is Obese...
Hour Three: CISPA...the beginning of the end of online privacy?- Steve Bucci, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation
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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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: How Is Romney ‘Going to stand up to North Korea if he can't stand up to Bryan Fischer?
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: Any room for moderates in the GOP anymore?- Dustin Stockton, The Tea Party.net
Case: " Connecticut General Life Ins. Co. v. Johnson, 303 U.S. 77 (1938)": " of the cases in this Court in which the Fourteenth Amendment was applied during the first fifty years after its adoption, less than one-half of 1 per cent. invoked it in protection of the negro race, and more than 50 per cent. asked that its benefits be extended to corporations." - Justice Hugo Black.
Hour Three: Best of the rest of the news
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Thom's Poll
Germany, like France & Bulgaria, just banned fracking. Will the US ban fracking before it poisons much of our drinking water?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
The Secret Group that's about to Swift Boat Barack Obama
The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Ugly
Welcome to America's biggest spy center
Who's more compassionate...atheists or fundamentalists?
Big Picture Panel - Socialism & Austerity on Trial
Will French Socialism be good for the world economy?
Will Prez Obama support Gay Marriage before or after Nov election?
Watch the Full Show
Full Show 5/7/12: Austerity gets booted in Europe
Thom discusses the major blow to technocrats in Europe after this weekends' elections in France and Greece. How will this clear message of saying "no" to austerity affect the U.S. presidential election? Then Thom highlights the newest swift boat ad attacking President Barack Obama. Plus the NSA is setting up a spying center in Utah. And in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains why Americans will need to wait until after the presidential election to see major changes in the battle over legalizing same sex marriage.
Thom Hartmann on the News - May 7, 2012
Is there room in the Republican party for moderates anymore?
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