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Gas Prices

• October 5 -- Taking the High (Tax) Road to Energy Efficiency
Jad Mouawad: "The United States, land of gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s and air-conditioned McMansions, might do well to turn to the country some Americans love to hate for lessons on how to curb its reliance on imported oil: France."

• June 23 -- Gassing Up For Higher Taxes
Timothy Egan pumps up prospects for an increase in the federal gas tax: "Gas prices finally headed down last week, and may have peaked for the year, the Energy Department reported….the pattern over the last 30 years suggests that this is bad news for anyone who believes that Americans, the world's biggest oil consumers, can ever curb their energy consumption."

• June 2 -- Gassing Up Against the Economic Recovery
The economy may be in recovery, but you wouldn't know it from the front page of the Times, which misleadingly focuses on "record high" gas prices (true only before adjusting for inflation).