The oil depicts a blue-robed woman.

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The United States, which is the world's biggest oil importer, is screaming blue murder.

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But these same resorts are now counting the losses inflicted by Israeli strikes and ensuing oil spills which have turned the Big Blue into a Big Black.

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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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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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All but 10% of his revenue comes from Super Blue Stuff, although he offers other products made with emu oil, meat and leather, including shampoo, jerky and handbags on his Web site, www.bluestuff.com.

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The line chefs chopping up eggplant, give him a nod as he walks over to another blue barrel, only this one is half full with used cooking oil.

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Super Blue Stuff is made from a witches' brew of ingredients: emu oil, aloe vera and methyl sulfonyl methane (MSM).

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McClung got the idea for Blue Stuff in 1996 when he met an emu breeder who was selling an emu-oil product as a pain reliever.

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