Sierra Club RAW: Bachmann Drilling Overdrive (And Other Assorted Idiocy)
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues.
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues.
Richard Stuebi | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green
I never cease to be amazed by the vehemence of opinions expressed on energy by people who are spectacularly underinformed. Let's first begin with a top ten list of clear-cut facts.
Eric Kroh | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home
McCain and Obama debate offshore drilling but Alaskan whalers whose families have hunted in Arctic waters for centuries witness the environmental impact firsthand, from inevitable spills to routine sonic bombs.
New York Times | Felicity Barringer | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green
With the advent of $4-a-gallon gasoline has come a bruising debate in Congress over whether to intensify efforts to drill on federal lands, including ...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics
Big oil et al are not really the "drill" team; it's just a land grab, orchestrated while they still have friends in very high places. And it won't do a damn thing to the price of gas at the pump.
ZP Heller | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
Reid emphasized the need to cut off government subsidies for oil companies in this week's Meet the Bloggers.
Amy Ephron | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green
As global warming increases and the amount of CO2 in the air increases as a result, it turns out, poison ivy and dandelions will thrive.
Jeffrey Jena | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics
I thought I'd go up join in with a few of my eco-insensitive brothers and have a look at where the new oil wells are going to be and grab a nice polar bear and bald eagle sandwich.
CNN | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
Wolf Blitzer interviewed T. Boone Pickens about his sudden push for alternative energy today on The Situation Room. The oilman-turned-renewables-pitch...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
We're so screwed that there's no way we can drill ourselves out of this mess. What will it take for people to accept the fact that the era of livin' large is over?
Jackson Williams | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Messing with the caribou does nothing to alter our energy plight, now or in the future, and shame on politicians who suggest otherwise to frustrated constituents.
Richard Arthur | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green
Let's keep our oil safe in the ground or under our oceans for that time in the future when the price of oil is, well, nationalized and, hence, priceless.
Amanda Coyne | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
Last night in Anchorage, Obama staff told a small crowd that Obama would be coming to campaign in Alaska. A new poll has the margin closing here dramatically, to 5 points with 17 percent undecided.
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home
WHO: Sen. John Kerry and Mayor Chris Coleman of St. Paul, Minnesota WHAT: Press conference call to to discuss the effect of John McCain's failed ene...
Sen. Robert Menendez | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
What McCain and Bush are not saying is how their friends at the oil companies are sitting on -- get this -- 68 million acres of unused land leased to them by the American taxpayer.
David Roberts | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
The U.S. cannot affect oil or gasoline prices in any significant way by drilling more oil. Full stop. Gingrich is knowingly lying to people (and taking their money).
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Josh Dorner | Posted 08.18.2008 | Green