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100% of People Against Toll Roads
"...for them." Texans already pay enough federal and state gas taxes for good roads. The problem began 25 years..."

Feb. 27, 2006 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.
"...you stated that Commissioner Karen Sonleitner "supported floating a gas-tax option as a toll road alternative, a proposition supported..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Column

Holding Sonleitner Accountable for Things Imagined
"...17], you stated that Commissioner Karen Sonleitner,"supported floating a gas-tax option as a toll road alternative, a proposition supported..."

Feb. 21, 2006 Postmarks

Get It While It's Green
City pimps out limited supply of clean energy
"...is paying off since it's now cheaper than coal, gas, and nuke power," while serving as a waiting list..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Page Two: For What It's Worth
Thoughts on conflict of interest and the staying power of Neil Young
"...sweat and drenched with the lightest swirl of tear gas. We drove around Beacon Hill in Boston. It had..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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Our readers talk back.
"...the foreseeable future – www.quotes.ino.com/exchanges/?r=NYMEX_CL) then the price of gas will approximately double. At $5 a gallon you are..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Out of Austin's primordial music past comes John Andrews with tales from the music hall of legends
"...and playing a place in Austin called the Vulcan Gas Company...."

Oct. 28, 2005 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Ventura Wrong on Future Oil Costs
"...the foreseeable future – www.quotes.ino.com/exchanges/?r=NYMEX_CL) then the price of gas will approximately double. At $5 a gallon you are..."

Oct. 20, 2005 Postmarks

Reports Detail Threats to National Wildlife Refuges
Energy exploration endangers refuges, including ones in Texas
"...Wildlife Refuge, at risk thanks to large-scale oil and gas exploration, protects the state's largest freshwater marsh and boasts..."

Oct. 14, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

The Hightower Report
No Child Left Alone, er Behind, 'opt out' provision lets parents keep kids' names out of military recruiters' hands; and Big Oil rolling in the hurricane dough
"...stop predatory recruiting. Just go to www.leavemy childalone.org.MEET THE GAS-PRICE GOUGERS Do the honchos of Big Oil think we..."

Oct. 14, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the consequent disruptions in gas supplies, Naked City welcomed President Bush's request that "we..."

Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature

Naked City
The city continues to push enviro-friendly autos
"...to take the lead in addressing auto-related pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and the nation's energy crunch, as no-longer-cheap fossil..."

Sept. 9, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Who Killed Father Ryan?
A 1981 Odessa murder haunts crime researchers, the Catholic Church, and an ex-con determined to prove his innocence
"...him – including 10 receipts for various items, like gas and a new tire for his pickup truck, and..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Travis and Williamson counties, set to begin Sept. 1. Gas-powered vehicles from two to 24 years old must pass..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Letters at 3AM
No country gets two centuries anymore. The 21st will be China's century. That's what $4-plus a gallon means, and nothing can stop it. We're heading for a modern Dust Bowl.
"...Gas prices can only go up. Oil production is at..."

April 29, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...the highway plan and possibly substituting a local option gas tax (filed by Austin Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos) for the..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

What If ... Media Terrorists Landed on Sixth Street?
We assume it would go something like this ...
"...minute-by-minute, if people began passing out from a mysterious gas in a Sixth Street bar, and – just maybe..."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Naked City
Drilling plan threatens world's longest protected beach
"...President George W. Bush's regime "clearly encourages oil and gas development on public and private land" according to Sierra..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Here Come the Transporters
In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace
"...funded incrementally, at a snail's pace, for years by gas taxes paid by drivers throughout Texas, were actually the..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City
The natural-gas pipe to Austin's new power plant raises activist concerns
"...opportunity Monday to ask questions about a stealth natural gas pipeline project that has already won support from the..."

Feb. 6, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
As other cities catch up, 'Solar Austin' advocates look to prime the green-power pump
"...fuel charge, due to the wacked-out cost of natural gas and (what are the odds?) another defect-spawned shutdown of..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City
Austin Stories
"...up, in response to the skyrocketing price of natural gas (which fuels over half of AE's generating capacity) and..."

June 13, 2003 News Feature

The Race Is to the Swift
In Texas, livestock are better vaccinated than children.
"...In the state's other most-favored industry, oil and gas production, for instance, there are also perks for producers...."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The Hightower Report
The comprehensive energy bill is comprehensive theft; and put on your burqua -- the Taliban is back.
"...ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and the other global oil and gas giants and for the electric-utility greedheads that keep raising..."

May 2, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Amen.
"...the "processing" of "units" by sabotaging the shipments of gas, but his cries to the church go unheeded. Likewise,..."

March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Naked City
Local Austin news and gossip
"...still more expensive to buy, on average, than natural gas and coal, but not subject to the wild price..."

Feb. 9, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naked City
Wind power is creating a huge buzz in Texas; but will the honeymoon last?
"...leader. On October 31, Dallas-based giant TXU Electric and Gas announced its fourth major purchase of wind energy, bringing..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Killing the Messenger
John C. Danforth's Indictment of Whistleblower Bill Johnston May Lead to a Nasty Courtroom Showdown
"...hid evidence about the FBI's use of pyrotechnic tear gas during the 51-day standoff between federal agents and Branch..."

Nov. 17, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Postmarks
Readers' last gasps on light rail.
"...sit in traffic, search for parking and pay outrageous gas prices. Light rail can help ease these problems. You..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column

Naked City
A pipeline explosion in North Austin raises questions about Longhorn Pipeline's plan to run gas through a 50-year-old pipeline across the Edwards Aquifer.
"...would make political hay out of last week's natural gas pipeline explosion in Jollyville, you'd be wrong. Last Wednesday..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Dan Oko

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