(By JANE WARDELL, AP Business Writer) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he believed that oil-rich Gulf states would be willing to help bail out countries stricken by the global credit crisis. The British leader has said that he wants “hundreds of billions” of extra dollars pledged to the International Monetary Fund, noting that the Middle East has significant foreign exchange …

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Gov. Mark Sanford signed a pledge Friday to join T. Boone Pickens’ campaign to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. The Pickens Plan, unveiled in July, calls for investing in power generation from domestic renewable resources such as wind and using the country’s natural gas supply to fuel transportation, replacing more than a third of imported fuel and saving more than $230 billion a year.

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