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	<itunes:summary>Michael Fidanza is The Armchair Energist. News and commentary Monday through Friday on RFCRadio.com.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ahead of the Curve (Unfortunately!)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I am new to blogging for the most part (3 months), I like when I get &#8216;ahead&#8217; of a story. Each morning, I pore through tons of stories and bring the best of the best to you. As it sometimes happens, I read (or in this case, hear) an analysis of the story I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Ready to Rummmmbbbullll!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jets vs. The Sharks Ali vs. Frazier Coke vs. Pepsi Iraq vs. Iraq? That&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s going on these days in Iraq. You think the bickering in Congress is bad, you should see the struggle that&#8217;s going on for control in everyone&#8217;s favorite quagmire. Between the tribes and rival parties there, everyone wants to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Competitive Bidding Begin &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t realize that when I wrote the original post on the Iraqi oil fields that it would become a series! As you may recall, I suggested to the Iraqi oil minister, Hussain al-Sharistani, that the best way to expand their oil production was to open the country&#8217;s oil fields to competitive bidding. After about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Competetive Bidding Begin &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family hates when I do this while watching movies: I say the next line of dialogue before it happens. When the actor recites the line and it&#8217;s 99% of what I just said, I throw my hands up and say &#8220;I should have been a screenwriter!!&#8221; With that in mind, I read today in [...]]]></description>
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