These hot, blue giants would have grown out of the cold neutral gas that pervaded the young cosmos just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

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With the Blue Cash Everyday card, consumers only get 2% cash back at gas stations.

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Oil and gas companies directly employ more than 2 million Americans, from blue-collar workers to well-trained scientists and engineers.

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Red states Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, West Virginia, Montana and North Dakota (and a few blue states like Ohio and Pennsylvania) are getting rich from oil and gas drilling.

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Blue Star Steel saves money buying scrap steel, and the environment is spared additional greenhouse gas emissions from a foundry.

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Not even two-thirds of car buyers say gas prices affect their ultimate car-buying decisions, according to a recent survey by Kelley Blue Book, a vehicle information resource.

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The campaign trail has been full of blue-collar imagery this week -- the candidates have been eating lunch with workers, stopping at gas stations and touring factories as they gear up for the next contests.

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The family, Paiutes who live in the Reno Sparks Indian Colony, was pumping gas at a Quick Stop on their way to Reno when several men pulled up in a blue car and tried to start a fight.

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Having managed her state's department responsible for oil and gas exploration and exploitation, having negotiated a long-delayed natural gas pipeline through Canada to the Lower 48 and having been married for nearly two decades to a blue-collar worker in Alaska's North Slope oil fields, she knows more about the subject than all three of the others on the two parties' tickets put together.

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