Results tagged with 'oil'

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Articles:

Oro di Oliva opening in Public Market

Published March 13, 2012

According to an employee, Oro di Oliva, an upscale oil and vinegar shop, will open inside the Public Market on May 1.

Wisconsin's business community is a house divided

Published Jan. 13, 2010

The controversy over Gov. Jim Doyle's proposed Clean Energy Jobs Act illustrates a deep philosophical divide that is emerging within Wisconsin's business community.

Sunday Sound-off: Will increased gas prices change your life?

Published March 2, 2008

Recently, consumers were floored to see gas prices top $3 per gallon, and now it’s possible that prices will hit $4 a gallon.

Gas prices fuel re-examination of taxes

Published Sept. 2, 2005

Suffering from the gasoline blues? Nothing will get you fired up faster than realizing that nearly 30 cents (29.7 to be exact) from each gallon of gas sold goes into the state coffers. That's among the highest gas tax rates in the nation. And state law automatically raises that tax every year!

Web site fuels savings during gas price crunch

Published May 17, 2004

MilwaukeeGasPrices.com displays the 15 metropolitan area stations with the lowest prices (based on regular unleaded fuel) and the 15 with the highest, based on user updates over the past 72 hours.

Reader blogs:

Gas Backwards

Sunday August 7th, 2011 - Kenosha, WI Riddle me this, Batman. If crude oil is selling for $85 a barrel these days, how come gas is still hovering at $4 a gallon? Someone’s getting hosed, and it’s us - as in we the people. Nobody even complains about it anymore either. We j...

Fueling the Economy

President Barack Obama has decided to sell 30 million barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) next month to partially offset the loss of about 45 million barrels that would otherwise be imported from Libya. The sale would garner about $2.7 ...

Turkey, Russia, Ukraine & Energy

At the start of the New Year, Russia publicly squabbles with Ukraine over the terms of shipping gas to the European Union, while Turkish police have announced the discovery of a very large weapons cache buried in a pine forest near Ankara. &nb...