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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 ...

Unemployed Is Bad Enough; 'Unbanked' Can Be Worse | New York Times

March 17, 2012

“Without a checking or savings account, you're basically shut out of most affordable financial services,” said Anne Stuhldreher, a senior policy fellow at New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy organization. According to surveys conducted by ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Op-Independent: What's Wrong With European Socialism? | Wicked Local

February 4, 2012

Steven Hill, who heads the political reform program at the New America Foundation, a liberal Washington think tank, has just published a book: Europe's Promise. Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Future, in which he blames the media ...

Gov. Jerry Brown's Tax Plan Gaining Contributors | The Desert Sun

January 25, 2012

California political journalist and author Joe Mathews said the early contributions to Brown's proposal follows a pattern of political spending by California's more powerful Indian tribes. The tribes hope the contributions will pay dividends on future ...

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.

Student Loan Default Rate Nearly Doubles | The Bay Citizen

December 9, 2011

"People often decide to go back to school and start a new career when the economy gets bad, but this recession has gone on so long that the job market is weak even when they graduate," said Anne Stuhldreher, a senior fellow at the New America ...

Nanoscandals – Local Politicos and Bad Behavior | KPCC - Southern California

November 29, 2011


Joe Mathews, California editor of Zocalo Public Square, said the media has trouble keeping tabs on all local governments because small town residents have no incentive to pay attention. Local officials have neither the power to raise revenue or set tax ...

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