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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 75.78 | -0.87 | -1.14% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 75.03 | -3.52 | -4.48% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 79.69 | -2.90 | -3.51% | ||
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Mars US • 34 days | 79.71 | -2.05 | -2.51% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.041 | +0.011 | +0.53% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 75.03 | -3.52 | -4.48% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 75.26 | -3.62 | -4.59% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 79.69 | -2.90 | -3.51% |
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Peace Sour • 8 hours | 53.13 | -2.94 | -5.24% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 8 hours | 56.98 | -2.94 | -4.91% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 8 hours | 61.58 | -2.94 | -4.56% | ||
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Central Alberta • 8 hours | 55.13 | -2.94 | -5.06% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 69.52 | -1.03 | -1.46% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 69.50 | -0.75 | -1.07% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 62.50 | -0.75 | -1.19% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 79.16 | -1.03 | -1.28% |
Climate Progress
Joe Romm is a Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog" and Time magazine named one of the 25 “Best Blogs of 2010.″ In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm #88 on its list of 100 “people who are reinventing America.” Time named him a “Hero of the Environment″ and “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger.” Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in R&D, demonstration, and deployment of low-carbon technology. He is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.
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