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National average for regular unleaded is more than a dollar than it was a year ago. while the price has soared up a dollar today. while the dollar weakened against foreign concern sis. oil and the dollar usually trade in opposite directions. the feds today okaying a controversial plan to build 130 power generating wind turbines off the coast of massachusetts. the not in my backyard battle has been going on for about a decade now. opponents claim the turbines would wreck the national beauty nantucket sound off cape cod. harm wildlife and increase the burden on rate payers. supporters say the pr...

Meg mega watts of electricity. that's not a lot. that $515 million project will be placed back on the rate payers. you're going to see an electric bill increase every month to pay for this project. the utility earns solar energy credits that they can resell to other utilities so they can burn fossil fuel. >> is that one of the reasons they could do this? >> forrest gump said stupid is as stupid does. this is stupid does. >> we look at the guy on the pole, are they safe? >> we're not against solar power. we're concerned when ice and snow form on these, many of them are -- >> you got a foot of s...

That debt waived by personal bankruptcy, chapter 7. cha debt would follow -- that debt would follow you around just like a student loan does, jenna. jenna: all right, so what's the reception on capitol hill. >> reporter: well, the silence has been deafening so far. it's gone to three different house committees, and so far there's been no action taken and no action plan inside any of those three committees. democrats still seem to like the idea because they see it as chipping away at obamacare and that key provision of having the risk spread to more rate payers. republicans see this as a stunt ...

Congratulations, you've been approved and they mentioned the amount of money and the size of the system. you have to complete the application process which includes all the things of permitting and going through the course of the installation. so i'm sure they'd have fine print somewhere but it wasn't in the e-mail that we got which is the only communication that we got. and we kept checking over the course of the fall with the installers and with the city to say hey, we're still good for this and it was always yep, you're good. >> wow. >> until it wasn't. >> so i understand that it was a thre...

From rate payers people who buy gas, natural gas and electricity. so the consumer pays 100% of the tab. >> the president: under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily -- wouldn't necessarily skyrocket. >> once people saw it was a huge tax increase folded into their energy bills. people saw the economic impact not only on their pocketbook also on american jobs and competitiveness around the worm. >> the greatest amount of -- around the world. >> the greatest amount of experience anyone has, they've been dabbling in this for a couple of years. >> you've had a numb...