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  Dan Compton and Susan McElree appear to be friendly and mild mannered.

  But they are filled with a lot of Howard Beale, the Peter Finch character in the 1976 movie, Network.

  They are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore. Their anger is aimed at big oil companies and big oil profits.

  The Portage County couple have created a new grass-roots group, the Fed Up Energy League (FUEL), and started a new Web site: www.angryatthepump.org.

  Their efforts have earned FUEL more than 400 members, but millions of members will be needed if they are to be successful with a proposed consumer boycott of a major oil company to get gasoline prices lowered, Compton said.

 Their plans still are taking shape, but what they envision is a boycott that would force a single oil company to lower its prices in order to win its ...





















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