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Why does President Biden want an investigation into gas companies' conduct?
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    President Biden calls on the Federal Trade Commission to look into whether "illegal conduct" is pushing gas prices up.
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    The cost of gasoline is up nearly 50% from last year, as inflation had its largest annual increase in over 30 years. "The bottom line is this: gas prices at the pump remain high, even though oil and gas companies' costs are declining," Mr. Biden wrote [to Lina Khan, chair of the FTC].
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    "Usually, prices at the pump correspond to movement in prices of unfinished gasoline, the main ingredient in the gas people buy at the gas station," Biden wrote. "But in the last month, the price of unfinished gasoline is down more than 5% while gas prices at the pump are up 3%. This unexplained large gap [...] is well above the pre-pandemic average."
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    "Demand has returned as the economy comes back and is outpacing supply. Further impacting the imbalance is the continued decision from the administration to restrict access to America's energy supply and cancel important infrastructure projects," said [an executive of the American Petroleum Institute, which is the lobbyist for the largest gas and oil companies].
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    Biden tries to pin high gas prices on industry with FTC investigation.
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    Why are gas prices so high? And who is to blame?
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    The government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority is soliciting pharmaceutical companies with proven ability to make the more-effective mRNA vacci...

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What is on the agenda as the US secretary of state visits Africa?


    Blinken arrived late Tuesday in Kenya, and he will travel on to Nigeria and Senegal. He will skip Ethiopia -- once a staple of secretary of state visits because it was one o...

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Why will Apple sell spare parts for its products?


    A new program, called Self Service Repair, will allow customers to buy parts from Apple for their products and perform repairs at home. Apple said it will also publi...

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Why did a nuclear power start-up choose a Wyoming town for its first plant?


    Construction of the plant will be a job bonanza for Kemmerer, Wyoming, with 2,000 workers at its peak, said TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque. Today, a local power p...

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Yes - It's not just about Taiwan. It's about what Beijing and the rest of the world see when a bully like China invades a friend of the US. If they see us back down, we continue to lose standing as a world power and our allies lose faith in us, which means we lose influence over things (like trade) that directly affect our prosperity and security. If we defend Taiwan, that signals to the world that it is safe and smart to be our ally.


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