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Partisan views on energy help stall gas compromise
WASHINGTON - Just two days after gas prices hit $4 a gallon nationwide, Democrats took their answer to consumers' pain at the pump to the Senate floor, with a windfall profits tax on Big Oil as the centerpiece.
But even that milestone wasn't enough to bring about compromise and the measure failed, with strong Republican opposition.
Two weeks later - with gas prices up another 10 cents...
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