State gas tax holiday proposals, mirroring Republican presidential candidate John McCain's proposed summer federal gas tax holiday, have gone nowhere.

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Clinton and Dole rush in with their offers: sell off part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (Clinton's offer), repeal the gas tax (Dole's offer).

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When Morgan Stanley recalculates the company's rankings in its MSCI Emerging Markets Index, the consensus is that Gazprom, which holds nearly one-third of the world's natural-gas reserves and contributes 25% of Russia's tax receipts, will come out on top of the list, ahead of behemoths like Samsung Electronics .

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