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Gas Prices Top $4/Gallon In Some Parts Of Central Pennsylvania | Patriot-News

April 5, 2012

''In 2011, Americans spent $491 billion on gasoline -- about $100 billion more than in 2010," said Lisa Margonelli, director of the New America Foundation's energy policy initiative and author of "Oil on the Brain." "And that sucked up the entire ...

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Promising To Slash Gas Prices Is "Economic Nonsense" | Energy Collective

February 28, 2012

There are, of course, also multiple books about this as I wrote here, these include my friend Lisa Margonelli's Oil on the Brain. Speaking of the brain, I may finally understand why the media routinely gets the facts wrong when it comes to this issue, ...

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Oil Prices Climb As Tensions With Iran Persist | Public Radio International

February 17, 2012

Lisa Margonelli, a fellow at the New America Foundation, said she's baffled by the pronouncement that Iran would cut off oil shipments in advance of the new sanctions going into effect. Though she pointed out that just one Iranian news agency said the ...

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Gas Prices to Spike 60 Cents or More By May | USA Today

February 5, 2012

Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, says consumers will be vulnerable to rising prices until the US develops alternative fuels such as natural gas. For more information about reprints & permissions, ...

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California Start-Up Better Place Touts Car Battery Switch Stations For The ... | ABC News

January 24, 2012

Even northern California would be hard to ... blanket with the kind of battery changing stations that we need," said Lisa Margonelli, director of energy policy at New America Foundation. "We have, like, 150000 gas stations in the United States.

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Author To Discuss the True Cost of Gasoline at Mill Valley Library | Marin Independent-Journal

December 29, 2011

Journalist Lisa Margonelli, director of the energy policy initiative at the New America Foundation, will discuss the environmental, economic, moral and political cost of gasoline at 7 pm Jan. 6, a First Friday event at the Mill Valley Library. ...

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A Very Big Plan for a Very Green Future | TIME Magazine

November 22, 2011

As well it should: a recent report from the New America Foundation estimated that Americans will spend nearly half a trillion dollars on gasoline this year, up 25% from 2010. (See if gas-powered cars are more fuel-efficient than you think.) ...

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As Gas Use Declines, Americans Still Spend More on Gas | Fast Company

October 27, 2011

That's the frustrating conclusion of a new report from the New America Foundation called The Price-Induced Energy Trap: Exploring the Impacts of Transportation Expenditures on the American Economy. According to the report, by the end of 2011, ...

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Americans Spend More Money on Gasoline Than Taxes, Healthcare | KYTX

October 24, 2011

The report, by the Nonpartisan Group New America Foundation, finds rising gasoline prices are playing a big part in the results. The survey shows this year, Americans are on track to spend over $490 billion on gasoline. Which is $100 billion more than ...

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We Pay More To Drive Than We Spend on Taxes | TIME Magazine

October 24, 2011

These are the main findings of “Energy Trap,” a new study conducted by the non-partisan New America Foundation. Generally speaking, consumers scale back on purchasing products and services as they get more expensive. What we've seen over the past few ...

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